Now Back To Normal

 

Are you feeling back to normal yet? I have decided that there is no such thing as normal. Which is good I think, because I might get stuck in normal and never want to come out. I think the nicest thing was getting up at the normal  time, watching the sun rise and getting chores started at a normal time. I really enjoyed sleeping late, having slow mornings and enjoying having Ron home for two weeks. We both needed some down time and it was pure bliss.

 

My list of things I would like to get accomplished for January continues to grow at an alarming rate. Cleaning closets and cleaning out my cookbooks, and moving bookcases. It is time to get more organization into my life. Every where I look I see places to clean. I think the hardest thing about any chore is just starting don't you?

The strawberry on the strawberry tree.

I do love the sounds of home. The sounds of the heater purring away, the dryer clinking and clanking. Jeans always make such a busy sound. The Flicker is trying his best to make my hens think he is a hawk. The flicker has got very brave. He has got comfortable enough to come down where I am but always flies away when I point the camera at him.

This is the kind that is around here right now. The bigger one wasn't this kind.

The other day, I saw some crows dive booming something. They were very agitated. I grabbed my binoculars and watched this drama. There was a red tail hawk on the ground with his prey. He had what ever it was clutched in his talons. The crows were not happy about it and kept diving at him. The red tail hawk intent on his meal wasn't paying much attention. I guess neither was I because the next thing that happened was a different, much bigger hawk dropped out of the sky and hit the red tailed hawk at full force. I yelled by the way as I was so surprised. So were the crows. The bigger hawk which I couldn't tell what kind he was started fighting the smaller one for his prey. The little one fought back and finally the big one decided it was too much trouble and flew on its way. For one thing, I have never seen this happen on the ground. Watching them fight was shocking as it was so violent. The crows flew off  chasing the bigger one, and the little one finished eating in peace.

 

I was watching this little fat hummingbird yesterday. He is so fat he looks like a circle with a long stick for a beak. He is dark green and always sits in a tree above my head making that sawing noise. Last year at the time I couldn't even see him only hear him. I can spot him every time now. I think he liked it better when I couldn't see him. When I look at him now he flies to a higher branch waiting for me to move on. I have been watching him this year so I can see which tree he lives in, but as of yet his house is safe as he is wise to my tricks.

Stock photo from my computer. We don't have spiders like this.

 

 

I hope you have a lovely day this first Monday in January. Today, I am filled with such thankfulness,
that it is a new year, full of new dreams and new memories to be made. God is good.

~Kim~

 

"The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.
---Francoise de Motteville---