Monday, August 21, 2017

I guess I bragged about never getting sick one too many times


I know better than to invoke the gods. 

Last Friday morning I felt a tickle in my nose and a little scratchiness in my throat and that night it hammered me. Saturday was a misery, today better so I have high hopes for tomorrow. As long as I sit or lay still on the couch, I can breathe fairly well. As soon as I stand up and move around I'm totally congested. As if I have the energy to stand up and move around. I finished my book so it's been solitaire and internet and dozing and TV.

Monday...today I feel so much better, well enough to have to tackle the kitchen, the chore I have been ignoring for three days, where just about every surface is covered with dirty dishes. I'd take a picture but it's embarrassing. I also need to water the front yard and cut the grass in the Little Backyard. Right now I watching a wren groom itself, scratching and stretching and fluffing it's feathers sitting in the chinese fringe flower tree right outside my window. Yesterday, sitting here briefly, I was gazing out the window at the photinia about 30' away when a red shouldered hawk came out of nowhere, diving at a medium sized bird, probably a white wing dove, sitting in the photinia. The smaller bird took off with the hawk in hot pursuit swooping low over the Little Backyard and turtle tank, taking a hard left and continuing across the side of my absent neighbor's yard and out of sight. Both birds with the same motive, preservation of life.

I took pictures of the wren but it just looks like a blurry brown spot so instead here's a picture of the rangoon creeper blooming against the blue sky.





7 comments:

  1. That Rangoon creeper certainly looks colorful and exotic. (Partly because of the name.) Don't tackle too many chores too quickly. Let yourself become completely well first!

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  2. What Steve said!
    I live in fear that a hawk will take one of my young chicks. Their mama is so protective but I don't think she could stop a hawk in midflight.

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  3. All, all, all of my wren pictures turned out to be where the wren was just a second ago.

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  4. Some lovely blooms. Those hawks don't give up easy, but do miss

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  5. Sorry to hear you were under the weather, but it's good that you're on the mend.

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  6. I have never heard nor seen a Rangoon Creeper so I appreciate you posting it. It certainly is a beauty. I wish I could grow exotics around my area but our winters are too cold.

    Glad to hear that you are feeling better and am up and around. Don't force yourself to overdo. Those dishes can wait another day.

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  7. Hope you're feeling MUCH better by now! I'm finally feeling more human again after my surgery. Haven't even had a nap today! But this is the most dangerous time for me - I have all these "protocols" to follow after the hip surgery & since I feel so good I'm afraid I'll totally forget about them. Dana, do NOT DISLOCATE YOUR HIP!! And all of that was to echo what the others have said - don't do too much before you're ready!

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