The shut off the water on our 1888 house in order to remove
the lead piping from the street
We've been here since 2016 drinking lead infused water so
perhaps I've already done the damage
The house of course belonged to the former police chief who
mistakenly believed that I had put him on the power list for our publication
back in 2011 or 12
I never corrected him
although it was most likely are poet who put them on the list
He did not want us to tear down the house because he had
grown up in it and we did not want to tear it down because it is one of the few
single family houses in town with a driveway
our moving here coincided with our poet moving out and I
have never been able to determine whether this was purely coincidental or
whether she fled to Manhattan knowing we were living on the same street only
opposite ends of the Palisades
As it is I didn't get to take a shower before they turned
off the water so I am grimy and uncomfortable
And also had a bad mood partly because the holiday season's
coming and I am not looking forward to it
As I get older the holidays being less appealing because
there's fewer and fewer people to share it with and I still miss my best friend
Paulie who passed away just prior to the covid pandemic in 2020.
The grungy men, up to their eyeballs and dirt and concrete
outside, assure me that we will have water again by the end of the day although
the notice they gave us said we should refrain from drinking anything out of
the tap for a few days or to filter it somehow and they gave us pictures that
filter water for lead
I sort of feel the same way now as I did back when the
environmental lobby managed to remove lead from gasoline which of course made
cars less efficient and caused older cars to sputter and die in the side of the
road
Anyway I'm still making plans to go see my daughter at some
point the next month although little the Christmas tree lightings and other
silly stuff I have to cover I am not exactly sure when
I have no way to know what our poet is doing this Christmas
season most likely going to whatever parents houses both within easier reach of
where she currently lives then where she previously moved from last Christmas
We're stuck with two kittens from the yard who are driving
me crazy we can't put up Christmas tree because of the cats knock it down and
we can't put it up with a new kittens are because they are even more
rambunctious than the rescue cats we had before
Anyway holiday is coming and we're getting out the stockings
to hang before the fireplace we don't have in anticipation of getting cool
again this year
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