60 - Saw some moving mushrooms.
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The other day I was underneath a really old rotten
house, crawling around with a flashlight in this
dirt floor crawl-space basement sort of room. I
finally find the back-flow device in the corner
and do the testing on it. Not even close to a
pass. And I'll tell Cliff about it, but I kind of
doubt he'll do anything. He says the town's
computer system makes it really hard to enter a
failed test, so he usually just enters them as a
pass unless the thing is like split in two or
something. Whatever. The town of Burloo is still
making an effort at infrastructure maintenance,
sort of. That's sure better than what they do back
in Braxon, which is nothing.
Anyways, while I'm under that house, I see a
really strange thing. There are all these
mushrooms growing under there, big greyish ones
with bluish parts on them. But the weird thing is,
they are all swaying back and forth in this slow
steady 3-second rhythm. Left, right, left,
right... and all of them in sync, like they're
dancing. How can that even happen, they're just
mushrooms. I never saw a mushroom move like that,
except maybe in some old video game, the legend of
mario or whatever it was.
I get out of there, and I'm dusting myself off by
the truck. The owner of the old place comes out an
offers me a waffle. No, thanks. They sure do love
their waffles around these parts.
It's spring now, and even some flowers are coming
up, like these daffodils between the side of the
house and the curb where I parked. I like
daffodils. But as I get into the driver's seat, I
look over and I could have sworn that those
daffodils by the house were moving ever so
slightly in a way that made me uneasy. Left,
right, left, right...
