{"id":2049,"date":"2014-10-16T00:02:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T04:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2014-10-16T00:08:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T04:08:37","slug":"2049","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2049","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow’s wheel."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today, I had this terrific intention.\u00a0 A plan, if you will.<\/p>\n

First thing this morning, I devised a series of events, which were to unfold throughout the day.\u00a0 Zippity Doo Dah.\u00a0\u00a0 First, I planned on walking out the shed and dusting off the hefty oak wooden cart.\u00a0 Then I was going to push it out to the big old apple tree … just north of the gulley … and commence picking apples until I filled the cart.\u00a0 Next, I was going to roll that cart all the way to the market, and sell those beautiful rosy apples to all the happy passers-by.<\/p>\n

But wouldn’t you know it.\u00a0 The dang wheel fell off the cart before I even opened the door to the shed.\u00a0 Kaplooooooey.\u00a0 Right off the axle.<\/p>\n

I looked at that wheel.\u00a0 I wished and hoped for that wheel to magically jump right back on the cart… so I could take this little piggy to market.<\/p>\n

It didn’t work out that way.\u00a0 That weigh.\u00a0 That whey.<\/p>\n

How does the old saying go?\u00a0 The best laid plans of mice and men.\u00a0 And what the heck does that really mean?\u00a0 (Okay….I found out.\u00a0 It is from a poem, written by Robert Burns.\u00a0 It is called “To a Mouse” composed in 1786. It tells of how he, while plowing a field, upturned a mouse’s nest. The resulting poem is an apology to the mouse.)<\/p>\n

I should be glad then.\u00a0 Really.\u00a0\u00a0 I mean…. the wheel fell off my cart… …. that’s all.\u00a0 (I could have been the mouse, who lost his house, when the plow came along, and plowed the thing down.)<\/p>\n

As they also say… “Tomorrow is another day.”\u00a0\u00a0 Which it is.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the other wheel has already fallen off tomorrow’s cart.\u00a0 Dag nab it, anyhow.<\/p>\n

I guess I should look at the bright side of that too.\u00a0 I’ve made the apples happy.\u00a0 They are still hanging on the tree.\u00a0 Rosy side up.<\/p>\n

So, maybe the moral of the story is this.\u00a0 Somedays you have sad mice, and happy apples.\u00a0 Other days you put your cart before your horse… and your mice.\u00a0 Or something.<\/p>\n

I suppose it is just a matter of which side of the plow you are on….\u00a0 happy or sady, busy or free, apple-ey or mouse-ey.\u00a0 And so the story goes….<\/p>\n

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\u201dI don\u2019t see much sense in that,\u201d said Rabbit. \u201cNo,\u201d said Pooh humbly, \u201cthere isn\u2019t. But there was going to be when I began it. It\u2019s just that something happened to it along the way.\u201d – Winnie the Pooh<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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