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...