Doorknobs and Grown-ups

The adventures never seem to cease, out here.  And they come at us when we're least expecting them.

If you're wondering whether that is what you think it is, you're probably right.  It's an apple, mounted where our doorknob should be.

Or, more appropriately, two apples where our doorknob should be.  What would you do if you fell asleep working on your computer, woke up at about 1:00 AM, decided to check on your baby before officially going to bed and found that your door had fallen shut and the doorknob jammed, locking you in your own bedroom?

You'd knock the screen out of our window and clamber out and around to the front porch, obviously, glad to have forgotten to lock the front door for once.  Or, more appropriately, if you were four months pregnant, hopefully your husband would be around to do that last part for you.

Once you had gotten the bedroom door open - a curiously easy feat from the kitchen side of it - you would remove the doorknob, naturally.  The only remaining dilemma would be how to block light and sound from coming in through the round hole in your door.  The easy solution, a wad of grocery bags, just wouldn't do.  It would look tacky.

So what do you do?  Decorate with fruit,. of course.  Two apples and a skewer - or sturdy plastic straw, or whatever - and voila!  Problem solved and door decorated.  For a few days at least, until the apples begin to get soft and brown on the inside...but that's another story altogether.

I said that adventures keep finding us out here, but for once I don't think I mean in 'Somewhere.'  This time, I mean the wild ride that is adulthood.  When you're a kid, adventures are something that someone reads to you from a book, or something that you paint with watercolors, or something that you dream up with your running feet and whooping yells.  Sometimes, it's like that for grown-ups too, where you're inventing an adventure or fueling it with hard work and imagination; but sometimes - often - it's more like finding out that you're out in the open water now.  Adventure finds you and you roll with it and learn to laugh.