Early Morning Surprise

Carol Burt
4 min readMay 9, 2022
Photo by George Pastushok on Unsplash

I was not ready for it.

The kitchen floor in our hundred-year-old house has been failing for some time now. When it got bad enough I could no longer get the vacuum under the refrigerator because it was sinking into the floor, we decided a new floor couldn’t be avoided. Oh, the joys of old houses.

The contractor was busy with family matters yesterday since it was Mother’s Day and…

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Carol Burt

Former print journalist, former mayor, retired law enforcement officer. Writing about politics and government along with random personal essays.