The bread is back

I thought I had mentioned this in a previous post but Google says no. A strange pattern of happenings the month before Kim died was the appearance of bread loaves on our lawn. We live on the corner with a somewhat busy road, which connects to a neighborhood shopping center, that has all kinds of traffic -- truck, car, bike, foot. Back then (March) I began to notice a loaf of bread every few days, at least once a week, in our yard by the busy road, and then I began to notice loaves here and there in the road, down the road, by the freeway, and beyond. Kim and I imagined a wild bread truck driver careening around the corners, high-tailing it to their next early-morning stop, bread loaves flying out the back. After Kim passed away they stopped appearing, and so did the wild turkeys, the hawks, butterfly storms, and so on.


I saw a hawk yesterday fly into a row of small trees by the freeway offramp not far from my home, and this always now invokes an ominous spectre. The bread is back. Will other signs appear too? Or is it a "Sometimes a loaf of bread is just a loaf of bread" situation? Watch your step please.

Note the water saving feature of my sprinkler system.