It is my first day alone in a while. At first, I embraced it. It is so rare for this house to be quiet. But after lunch, I began to feel a bit uneasy. Is there something else I should be doing? The house is tidy. I've practically conquered Mount Laundry. I already went to the store for a missing suppertime ingredient. Brought Tater a forgotten binder. It's awfully quiet around here...
Well then. I'll check my emails before I settle into a bit of knitting. Nothing. I look out the computer room window. There's a squirrel on my birdfeeder. "Good Luck, Buddy. This one's squirrel proof," I tell him. Then I look again. Sparrows. Bah. But I look closer...what's that? A WREN!!! Oh, they are so rare around here, but there is one at my feeder! It flies away. A Cardinal shows up. And now here's a Purple Finch. Oh! A Blue Jay! What a mood lifter this is! I love birds.
And I have plenty to do before the girls arrive home, tired and frumpish and hungry, from school. Yes indeed, there is plenty else I could be doing. The uneasiness is Gone. What was that all about, anyway?
* Thanks, birds...for your inspiring presence *
Oh that darling sweet bird. I miss them in the winter as in Alaska most of the birds migrate south.
Posted by: Nancy Jane | October 17, 2008 at 06:02 PM