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So sitting here thinking about the OL being in the hospital still I had completely forgotten that right before she went in we ordered our first train ever, the doorbell rang and there it was! <br /> <br />What excitement, it was like being a kid again at Christmas, the rich color of the packages, the divine heaviness of the boxes - full of physical suggestion that they contained some precious metal or hidden secret just waiting to be opened, the rich clean and antiseptic smell of the packaging.. all this and I hadnt even got them open yet! <br /> <br />With hands trembling, hands that rarely tremble over anything less than the lowest or highest of life experiancs, I draw the boxes open - what color, what texture, what detail and still that wonderful heaviness even out of the boxes. The the shock at the size and over all physicality so removed from distant tiny pictures on a computer or the unassable personal determination of how heavy it would be in full scale. The new appreciation for anyone that deals in a scale larger or smaller than HO and puzzlement at how it can even be done! And then amazement, childlike joy and something missed for so long - a desire to -play-! <br /> <br />A quick desire to show the OL so off to take pictures but seems wrong somehow to just snap pics of them just sitting on the table, so a hasty arrangement on the hearth, the Christmas Air deepening as I do it... a few quick snaps and call the OL; she giggles and gasps her own small girl inside as joyed as my little guy is, we chatter and part. <br /> <br />Then fast off, back to the virtual world to show my new buddies; the images of all the times those friends, I've lost through time or growing up, gathered to show each other our new baseball cards or marbles or neatest 'new thing' now coming on hard.. <br /> <br />Hey Guys!!!!!! Look what I got! <br /> <br />[img.nr]http://mysite.verizon.net/coyote97/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/SC 002.jpg[/img.nr] <br /> <br /> <br />*takes a deep breath* Ok, can anyone else tell Im hooked hard?! [:D][:D] <br /> <br />Peace. <br /> <br />Coyote <br /> <br /> <br />
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