Day 264
It hit me just now … I have 100 days left of my blogging experiment! The countdown begins!
Today I had a lovely, very unexpected little visitor.
I recently pulled down all my storms on my windows – so no more screens, just glass panes. However, I decided to open up my office window this morning because it was so nice outside, but instead of pulling the screen down – I just left the window wide open.
And a little bird took advantage of that and came into my office and paid me a little visit.
I was sitting here, as I do – seemingly – 80% of my day, and caught movement out of the corner of my eye … and there he (or she) was sitting on the window sill – just looking around and at me.
A little brown bird – not a robin, not a wren, not any colorful jay or woodpecker … just an ordinary sparrow of sorts. It stood on the sill for just a bit, looked at me, as if trying to tell me something (which I think was, “Go outside you fool, it’s beautiful out and the weather is going to change in 3 hours.”) …
So, I did what every self-respecting business owner does on a Thursday morning at 10:30 … I left my office and went outside.
And not only did I go outside … I tidied my patio (which was for naught because the winds just blew all the leaves that I had swept into the lawn back onto the patio in mere moments) … planted 100 tulip, allium, and grape hyacynth bulbs … put away my bungee chameleon that was hanging off my tree and my patio table umbrella … emptied pots, re-potted some things … you know, another general clean up on an otherwise normal day in October except it was 78 degrees and so balmy I could have sworn I was in Florida in April. It just had that feel to it.
It has rained (and is again now) for the last 2 days … torrential, soaking rains … and with the warmth of the days and the high humidity it’s been a little like living in a terrarium. Damp, earthy smells commingled with the rotting leaves and the breezes whipped all the scents together in some wonderful autumnal potpourri right in my backyard.
And to make things even better … my dad and I took Mobes out for her first walk in the forest (shame on me) since my move out here. We probably should have done it a few weeks ago when the leaves were just changing as now they were all down but again, it had that yummy earthy smell (an aroma one does NOT get – ever – in Colorado). I don’t know whose nose was sniffing harder – mine or the dog’s!
In any case – I think I walked a bit too fast for both of them and was really hoping neither of them would keel over this afternoon due to a strenuous walk! The dog has been sleeping all day … she could barely even walk over the threshold of the backdoor when we got home. She konked out on the family room floor and stayed there for hours! I have a feeling my dad did the same!
In any case … today was probably the last of our really nice weather, so thank you little bird for telling me to go outside.
Sometimes the bluebird of happiness is brown.