Wonderful Wednesday!

 

Do you ever wake up and the first thought is, I am so glad I am alive? I admit until I had my eye fixed I didn't feel that way at all. My thought then would be I wonder how I will get through the day.
Well, I have my oldest silkie hen. I noticed that she seemed to be pulling away, and just standing in the corner and not eating and as I watched her I realized her little fuzzy top knot had grown so much during the winter she couldn't see.

I went back in the house and grabbed some scissors. Never mind that I hadn't figured out how was I going to grab a chicken, hold her in my arms and give her a haircut. I chased her and got her pinned in a corner and picked her up and I could feel how skinny she had become. I kind of put her under my arm and then very carefully started trimming her top knot. Silkie chicken feathers are more like down. So as I trimmed the air was white with these little flowers. Like dandelion puffs.

 

 I trimmed as carefully as I could until now she looks like I shaved her head. The funny thing as I put her down she started eating like she was starving to death. Right away her old bossy self was back and into her eyes came the look like she was back in the saddle again. I stood and watched her and thought to myself that is just the way I feel. I know you will get tired of this but I am alive again. I never knew I was gone. I feel so much like the second movie of Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers.  Gandalf to Theoden,
" I bid you come out before your doors and look abroad. Too long have you sat in the shadows."

 

I just find even the grass and the weeds and the color of different greens. I had forgot the shades of green and the different shapes of clouds and watching the birds and watching as they fly. There is this hummingbird that makes this sound. Kind of like sawing through wood. He sits in the tops of the trees and makes it and I sat and was finally able to see him.

I sewed yesterday, and to be able to see the fabric and the colors and my needle, just amazes me. The headaches are gone as well. I had about three migraines a week before the surgery. You know how it is when you have one you just don't loose one day but at least two.

So yes, it is a wonderful Wednesday, a wonderful week.

Thank you for stopping by today,

~Kim~

"Surely it is cruel to cut down a very fine tree! Each dull, dead thud of the axe hurts
the little green fairy that lives in its heart."
---The Fairy Caravan---Beatrix Potter, 1929