The Watcher

The rear of our home garden sits between two metal workshops; - the Fabrication shop (or Fab shop) and the Machine shop.  The Machine shop has windows which look out onto the garden.  It also has a side door which leads out into the garden.

While weeding today, the side door opened and the Machinist, fighting through cobwebs hung between Bosc and Comice pear trees, advanced towards me....

"Babe, I just wanted you to know - if you get the feeling that someone is watching you, well - they are.  It's me.  Anyway...I just wanted you to know that...."