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[Danky2]

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@Enufstuff wrote:

@On It @Kachina624 @Danky2 @Carmie@Red Top @Citrine1 

  Here is a poem that I wrote years ago and it was published along with some others that I wrote. My inspiration was a Country Store in Moultonboro, New Hampshire, that we often visited when I was a child.

                                      Country Store

                    It seems like only yesterday,

                       although I know it's more.                                  

                    I used to stop and visit,

                       at Grampa's country store.

                    Still clear in my aging memory,

                       are smells and sights and sounds.

                     The pungent aromas or ginger and mace,

                       and cinnamon freshly ground.

                     Above the barrels of pickles and crackers,

                        were bolts and bolts in rows

                      of delicate voile and chintz,

                        and bright floral calicos.

                     The pot bellied stove in the center of the room,

                       was where I warmed my hands.

                      The crackling fire gave a warm glow,

                        reflecting off pots and pans.

                      A low buzz came from the back of the store,

                        from behind the country-aged cheese,

                      near the honey pots where grandpa kept

                        a glass cased hive of honey bees.

                      I remember hearing the register ring.

                         The money dropped in would jingle.

                      Whenever a customer entered the store,

                          the bell on the door would tinkle.

                       The candy case was my favorite spot.

                          I would press my nose to the glass.

                        Grandpa knew what was on my mind,

                          "Would you like a barley stick?", he'd ask.

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You have managed to bring the Country Store to life........what an excellent poem and, I hope, that you never stop writing. You can do the poems and @Othereeeen can do the 

humor. 

[Enufstuff]

@on the bay   Thank you very much. I loved visiting that store on summer vacations with my parents and brothers.

  The memory of it inspired me to write the poem.

  I has been quite a few years since anything has inspired me to write poetry again.

[Enufstuff]

@Danky2   Thank you very much. It has been a long time since I have been inspired to write poetry again.

[Danky2]

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@Enufstuff wrote:

@Danky2   Thank you very much. It has been a long time since I have been inspired to write poetry again.

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@Enufstuff .......no matter what you may, or may not, be going through, it is now the time

to write again.

Look around you and whether good or bad, the inspiration will be there. Don't waste another moment of your talent !!

[On It]

@Enufstuff Your poem is inspired. Thank you for sharing it with us. I am glad we all have special memories from our country store.

[Kachina624]

@Enufstuff.  You are so creative.  What a sweet memory of grandpa's  store.  What else do you do on a daily basis, that's a creative effort? Beside make doll clothes, of course.

[Enufstuff]

@Kachina624   Thank you very much. Those poems I wrote years ago, some when I was in high school. I have them all in a little book. Some of them have been published.

  The doll clothes I also made about 15 years ago. I just have all the pictures in a file on my computer and post from there.

 Since covid, I seem to have lost my creative spark. I retired two weeks before everything shut down with covid in 2020.

 I was glued to the tv and afraid to leave the house. You might say that I was traumatized by it all, for two years.

 It was so disappointing to me, since after 32 years working for our school department, I was so looking forward to my retirement. I'm sure many have felt the same way, with all that has happened, not to mention gun violence and crazy drivers out there, driving blind while texting or just aggressively driving.

 I thought that we would travel, take some local day trips

around New England, I wanted to paint again, do some sewing and read a lot of books.

 Well, I have done a lot of reading, crossword puzzles and shopping online. My family of five children have grown to 22 people so I am always shopping for gifts.

 When covid has waned in the warmer months, we did go to Maine once. Disaster, my husband is going on 86 and has become so ornery, argumentitive and just difficult.

 I am not planning any trips with him, as much as I would like to go to Bermuda again and to see Europe again.

 I don't put all my personal stuff out there, but I have had a lot of health issues in the past two years. Fortunately we never got covid. But, I have been in the hospital a couple of times, having had complications from eye surgery last July and  bad reactions to medications. I'm allergic to just about anything they prescribe.

 All this time, I have been getting injections in my shoulder and knee to avoid getting replacement surgeries that the doctors say I need. The last one in my shoulder did not help, so I have had bad shoulder pain since September. It is difficult to get comfortable to sleep

and I can't really use my left arm.

 I know that I need to see another doctor and probably will have to have the replacement. I have a bad time with anesthetics, so I'm very apprehensive about having surgery.

So, to answer your question, what do I do? I try to get through the pain each day. I read the forums for a little entertainment. I don't post when the pain is too bad.

I do manage to put dinner on the table for my two guys and I do laundry. One of my daughters comes to help with cleaning, vacuuming and washing the floor.

I read books and do some crossword puzzles and take care of my cat and feed outside birds and squirrels.

I feel like I would like to be creative again. But I have to feel well enough. I have bought some fabrics and trims online to re-create a couple of dresses for Toni, that I wore as a child. I just have not had the motivation to start sewing. I don't have any of those doll dresses that I post.I

sold them all when I was making them years ago. I'd like to make some for myself.

When I was younger, I always had to be creating something, painting , sewing for my girls, hooking rugs,

crewel embroidery, macrame, crochet, floral arrangements, wreath making, decorating the house. For many years I was in dance classes, Jazz and Middle Eastern. I loved to bake and cook for my family.

I'm just not driven to create much anymore. I don't know if it is being over 70 or my health or the past 4 years that has affected me. Even now, I don't go out much and have everything delivered.

Covid has been high in our state and all over the northeast this winter, so we don't go to restaurants. I'm

hoping that things will get better in the spring as it has in

the past couple of years and I will want to venture out.

 I don't know what I would have done without online shopping from Etsy, Amazon, Macy's and Stop & Shop for groceries.

  Aren't you sorry that you asked what I do on a daily basis? I'm hoping to get that creative spark back.