How You Know They Are Really, Really Good Friends

Before they get here you lie down for a nap and you sleep so hard that their arrival and the dogs' announcement of it which is so loud it must pierce the skins of airplanes in the stratosphere doesn't wake you up and when you DO get up, they are sitting at your table on the back porch and they have made coffee and you don't even feel guilty and you're just so glad to see them and you have a cup of the coffee they've made and it's a beautiful thing.