I Love Today!

This is it! My perfect day. Wonder how many I can pull out of this year? Woke up feeling God's joy this morning. Felt Arthur Itis' aches and pains too but that's an everyday thing and I just quit paying attention. Off to church, stayed part way through the 2nd service because I'm involved in a couple of community events and want others to join me so had to be there for the announcements at both.

Had a couple of errands to do in town and then Katie and I came home to a late breakfast and a glorious day. She laid out on her rug on the porch, I curled up in my porch rocker with a great book and we've spent the day just taking in the beautiful late summer, early fall weather. The sun is bright but only warm, there's an ever so slight breeze, the sky is amazingly clear. The weather in town is low 80's, here it's mid 70's. I worked up enough energy to stick some new flowers in the ground. It seems I stopped by the nursery a couple of days ago to get a new bird feeder. I came home with gerbera daisies, a flat of mums, and - oh yes, a bird feeder. Almost like a trip to the grocery store with a list. Sometimes I wonder why I bother.

So, here I sit in my porch rocker enjoying the view, listening to the quiet, reading and dozing and explaining to this annoying bee that he can go find his own coffee, this is mine. My critters are all napping but the outdoor critters are busy preparing ... the squirrels are running around gathering seeds from the pine cones and picking up green acorns and scampering up the trees to pack them away. Then they run down, grab some more and find places by the pond to bury the new batch. They're extremely industrious today. I hope that's not a sign that winter is closer than we think. I've been watching the woodpeckers and they've been busily doing the same thing (well, they don't bury anything but they're rat-a-tat-tatting in the oak and pine trees and packing away their little winter treasures as well). One of the hummers just buzzed me, again, to remind me that his/their feeder needs cleaning and refilling so I guess it's time to drag myself out of my rocker and follow the critters' examples; or - maybe just another half hour?

Note: The book is "Kiss" by Dekker. It's suspense without graphic violence, a real page-turner. On a scale of one to ten, an easy 10 1/2. It's in the christian/mystery/suspense genre. If you like Peretti or King or Koontz before the last two resorted to physical rather than psychological suspense, you'll enjoy Dekker.