Let’s pick up where we left off…
I had just left a 6-month relationship and moved into an apartment in Rhinebeck.
The Village Green is a small apartment complex located a couple of blocks from Rhinebeck’s town center and I was pleasantly surprised that I could afford an apartment there. I moved into 39B, a first-floor apartment that was partially underground. The bedroom window was in the front of the building and was a long, short squat window but allowed plenty of light into the bedroom. The bedroom was huge, and I curtained off one large section of it to store doll inventory. It had two walk-in closets, one I used as my personal closet and the other one that was in the hallway was used to store my weekly auction listings. The living room was bright and cheery with a sliding glass door that led to a small concrete patio. Over the years that I lived there Henry and I very much enjoyed watching all of the wildlife come and go… deer, wild turkey, squirrels, chipmunks, fox, and even some stray kittens that I made a little house for until they could get captured and sent off to a rescue mission. My office was in the eat-in kitchen/dinette area and I had my desk positioned in front of a large window which only looked out to a hedge row, but I so much enjoyed staring out that window and watching the different seasons come and go. My unit was quiet and felt private, yet I didn’t feel “out in the middle of nowhere”. Downtown Rhinebeck was a very short walk away offering many cute boutique shops and excellent restaurants. I still had lots of girlfriends but there was a piece of me that felt like I was starting all over again. I have never been one to go to a restaurant by myself, but I pulled up my big girl panties and forced myself to go walk into town at least once a week, sit at the bar at one of the local restaurants and have dinner… hoping to engage with some other locals and get to know some new people.
Mesmerized by a squirrel
Feral kittens, cute as a button to watch play, but couldn't touch them.