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yesterday i walked to the grocery store. it was gorgeous, sunny day, and i had my wife by my side, and my son in the stroller in front of me. it was a good day. one of those days you feel there could be a soundtrack playing – it feels like you’re enacting a scene from a movie in your daily life.
oddly enough, as we tramped along on our return journey i started to hear music playing. for those of you that know the hood, i was in front of the end zone pub when i first heard a bit of music. i assumed it was leaking from the pub, but it was bob marley and the wailers, so didn’t seem like sports pub tunes.
as we continued down the sidewalk i realized that the music was coming from a house just up the street. i was surprised at the volume that was emanating, as it was quite loud to be leaking from inside a house. the closer we got the more confusing it was – until we were right in front of the house.
that’s when i realized that the music wasn’t coming from inside the house, but from two 40 inch speakers that were strapped to the spruce tree in front of the house. there was yellow speaker wire coming from inside the house going directly to the tree. the sort of thing i would have noticed on my walk to the store.
so during my time at the grocery store, someone climbed about 15 feet up the massive spruce tree in front of their house to lash large speakers to the trunk. i guess they figured since it was a nice summer day more people needed to enjoy the wailers.
it’s a good sign spring is here, and summer is around the corner.
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