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Remember the old kitschy spy series, in which the lead character was a normal citizen, spy and double agent…yeah, I thought so. It dealt with the complexities of life that demanded the behavior of a regular joe, a communist spy, and an FBI counter spy. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting that my life which has devolved to life in the big city and life in the country is fraught with similar complexities. Not by a long stretch. Although, it does have its moments.
My plan was to live, more or less in equal parts, in our condo in Dallas county and our farm in Fannin county. Actually, that’s not quite true. I have never lived in Dallas county, but in a more defining subset known as Park Cities or better known as “the bubble”. On the other hand, if you live anywhere in Fannin county, you pretty much live in Fannin county. And the half and half has morphed in to much more time at the farm with only doctors and kidsport viewing pulling us back to Dallas. I first alluded to the differences in a blog Doc’s Cafe in May of 2007.
Let me give you some context by using zip codes. 75446 for Fannin county and 75205 for “the bubble”. Please do not read any of these stats as pejorative for any particular point of view. I offer them only as a backdrop to my own somewhat bifurcated behaviors. The population of 75446 is about 3500 mostly in the eastern third of Fannin County and a small portion of Lamar county. It is, of course, rural in nature with its target population center being Honey Grove with some 1600 souls. It is, of course, very rural. Before I spent much of my life here, I would have considered anyplace that was more than five minutes from a 7-11 store to be rural. The nearest place to buy a loaf of bread of more than ten minutes away from our homestead here. 75205 is, on the other hand, a
