I start packin', Trip to AB's homestead, play with doggo and chickens, rain walk, in Brookline [Wed 26]

I write this two weeks after the fact, a lot of details are bound to be fuzzy and uncertain. I'm using the photos I took of the day and any vague recollection I might have had to fill in the detail. At this point, I'm just writing for the sake of doing this, and totally fine with it. Just get on bruh.

I spent a large portion of the day packing my clothes. I was waiting for a last piece of luggage to arrive from Amazon before I finalized everything. Most of my clothes were out of the closest and neatly fit into the suitcases.

In the evening after work, I took the 101 and then the Orange Line to the Southern part of the City, where friend AB lives with her partner, their cat and dog, and like 10 chickens. I'm not making any of this up. They also have several dozen tomato plants, many many kale plants, and a pretty large kitchen patch in general. They were making plans to get bee hive too, but AB was not too comfortable with that. Going to their place in JP is always so much fun!

We grilled veggies and fake meat, talked about college, where all our friends were, where we wanted to move to buy houses, our jobs, my plans ahead, and their homesteading plans. I didn't think I'd be full, but I was bursting in the seams, it was a lot of food we cooked this evening. Also told AB about by idea for jobs for dogs.

Their doggo got impatient, we decided to go on a walk, the sky was getting dark so I packed up and got ready to leave. They were gonna walk with me all the way to Brookline folks' place. Half-way it got dark and thunderous, so they had to scramble back. I shouted at AB I'd see her in Seattle, she seemed noncommittal but surely something good will happen.

And then it rained. Very heavily. Quite scarily. Thunder lightning, the whole show. I enjoyed it for the first fifteen minutes and it got boring. As it subsided, I used my backpack with it's rainjacket as a shield from rain, much like a turtle uses its shell, and walked to Brookline place. Dried myself out, talked a bunch with folks, and watched some movie about a young girl who becomes a rock critic. I slept halfway through cos' I was so tired.