Astrology, Spirituality & Alternative Healing

and then people starting coming there with unsocialized, aggressive dogs, so the original crowd started changing their schedules to odd hours. It was too bad. At 3pm was the small dog hour and then at 4pm the large dog group. Jake is big, but so gentle and loving to small dogs that we would show up at 3 and stay until the big dogs were leaving.

And it only worked to a point. It was several towns away and the people there were very local and set in their groups. But at least I had people to converse with...

At work, everybody is pretty much set in insular groups. Also Maine is very "family" oriented, as in married with children. Middle aged and older singles are definitely outsiders. One thing I was fortunate in my 17 years at Digital in Mass was that the company had a very high proportion of educated, single or dink, transplants, so social groups were malleable and open. Whereas here I'm just a misfit and I have no interest into turning into one of them. There are 2 horse people that I work with, both of whom were very helpful to me when Algiers got sick and then had to be put down. Bev held me that weekend and literally had tears running down her cheeks. Meaghan helped me in my search for a replacement vet. Algiers was the first thing she asked about when I saw her and she, too, was devastated by the turn.
Other than that, I have nobody up here to share interests with...