Month: June 2019

Today I noticed…. How productive you can be with a deadline. We saw our second real estate agent yesterday and she suggested we aim to have all of the work done in two weeks so that she can come in and take pictures. Two weeks seemed slightly tight when she was here. When she left,…

Today I noticed…how loud the birds are are 5:30 in the morning. They are deafening. It’s like the birds that nest in the tree outside my window are having a loudness contest. They can wake me from a dead sleep with a fan on. Sometimes, like this morning, they can wake me through the closed…

Today I noticed…red clay all over the floor of our kitchen. It just kept appearing. A spot here. A spot there. My middle two children had just returned from basketball camp. I zeroed in on them. I sighed exasperatedly as I wiped up the clay. I turned around. There it was again! I wiped it…

Today I noticed… that there were leaves in our attic. In an effort to get our house ready to sell we are tackling those little nagging chores that don’t really seem important enough to get to, but weigh on your mind anyway. Things like redoing the upstairs bath faucet – not a huge priority since…

Today I noticed… anxiety. After I finished lunch, and while my fifteen year old was making his lunch (having just woken up for the day…. After first waking up to have breakfast and then going back to sleep until after noon) I noticed a tightening in the front of my throat. I began to freak…

Today I noticed that the models in the Lands End swimwear catalog don’t have real legs. I mean, obviously, they have legs. Their legs are real in the abstract. But, to look at them, they aren’t real. There are no bumps, lumps, or changes in color. They are two peach tapered triangles with no variation….

Today I noticed…. The bugs. I was standing in the yard. Standing still in order to capture a photograph of the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird that is coming to my feeder. Standing still and getting a little warm as the sun beat down on me. Standing still and being eaten alive by bugs. On my legs. On…

Today I noticed…how slowly time passes in a waiting room. This morning I waited at the vets for an hour with J and H. The minutes seemed to drag. And, while Hastings was a great boy waiting for his appointment to finish, my book was left unread since I was trapped in a very small…

Today I noticed…. How green my yard is in the summer. In the winter, it seems like we have various shades of brown and gray. Even the grass looses its luster, and the clover disappears. No one tells you that clover will disappear over the winter when they encourage you to plant it as a…

Who am I kidding? I am the last person to give you advice in how to do pretty much anything, but especially properly take care of the wild birds that come to your yard and eat from your feeders. I love feeding the birds. I love to watch and keep track of the birds –…