Several weeks ago now, I misplaced a pair of new leather gloves. I say misplaced because I knew I hadn't lost two at the same time —slipping out of a pocket onto the ground, etc. — a pair wouldn't have gone that way. I had a picture in my mind of placing them somewhere and with that picture I've looked everywhere, in the same places.....many times! Pockets, purses, jackets, drawers, cars - front seats, back seats, in the cushions, at church - you get the picture. Yesterday I decided the gloves were gone. Heading to Minnesota next week, I determined that I'd better head to Main Street today after yoga for a pair of gloves - hopefully on sale!
Then forgetting the glove issue for the moment, I entered the yoga studio and my teacher said she had a message for me from her friend Raquel, and from Raquel's friend, Michelle............before she could finish, I said — the gloves??!!!
You see while my husband and I were trying out a TERRIFIC NEW CAFE here in town several weeks ago — it's called "BACON and EGGS" — I was so busy congratulating said Michelle and her partner, Michelle, on the opening of their amazing new place that I left the gloves on the bench where I'd been seated. With a tummy full of delectable breakfast and a delish take-home scone to be eaten later that day, I was much too comfortable to remember the glove thing. Fortunately for me and my gloves, one of the Michelles noticed and snagged them for her Lost and Found drawer. She and I've only visited during yoga classes we used to be in together, and in the fall having spent a weekend at a women's retreat in Leavenworth, WA, we still don't know each other's last names, addresses, and certainly not email contact information.........
.......and yet, not REALLY knowing each other, I heard about her cafe and couldn't wait to try the food; she knew I was thrilled with what I'd tasted and that I'd surely be back for more but in the meantime, she put a message out into the universe thinking that I might receive it some way and voila - I did. Picking up my gloves today and snagging a fresh scone at the same time, well, that's the sort of thing that happens in a small town and it's very nice.
BTW, if you live in or near this great little town of Walla Walla, my spouse and I highly recommend a visit to "BACON and EGGS" - as I said above, delicious, imaginative, fresh food, good coffee, delicious baked every a.m. scones and other breakfast breads. Give it a whirl - it's on Main Street close to Whitman's new sports complex. Enjoy, enjoy and tell them "Dianna sent you:)"!
Population 30.0, greater communities 50.0. ... ? Checking other sources, that appears to mean 30,000 and 50,000. That's small compared to NYC, but pretty big compared to Bellville, (4,000, greater area 11,000).
ReplyDeleteI go to 30 miles New Ulm, popluation 650, for the "special" B&A breakfast.
The small town does have its advantages. We have found opportunities in the "small town" that were hidden in the "big city" of 4,000,000 +-.
Some folk love the "big city." We too enjoy the small town.
xo
ReplyDeleteEvery now and then we hear people talking about the "growth" of Walla Walla, and since the end of WWII the valley has grown, by 2% or 3% a decade. That seems about right to me.
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