HAPPY NEW WEEK!
I hope everyone has a wonderful week.
For various reasons, I've had a bad summer. So. I concluded today that I need to improve my quality of life. I went outdoors and sat down on my front step to think. There on the sidewalk in front of me was a big, astonishingly beautiful feather. It appeared to be about 11 inches long. The shaft was a brilliant silver color. The bottom was a silver gray with white splotches, and the upper section was a mottled deep brown and midnight black. The edges were outlined in black and silver.
I'm not good at identifying feathers, and I didn't recognize the bird species. I don't think it was a hawk feather. It wasn't a bald eagle, a goose, a duck, a vulture, or a wild turkey. It could have been an owl, but I didn't recognize it.
As Annette said earlier, this is the time of peak migration here in the Midwest. Millions of birds are in the sky during the 3 hours after sunset. So, I reckon a bird from up north decided to visit me. I felt uplifted.
Take care, all.
Good Morning. Wild, windy and wet again, here. Rusty - Sue claims she feels a little better but I wonder if she's just saying that to stop my nagging! Kettles don't seem to last these days - if you go back over the last couple of years of my posts you'll find that we often have to change ours! Nice that you enjoyed your Zoo visit. I had my blood pressure check and guess what? It was only slightly high. Boo! It felt like the times we used to have the TV repair man in, years ago and the TV was fine when he arrived .... I'm now booked for yet more blood tests etc. to try and find out why I frequently feel unwell. Edit: I know about white coat syndrome - I even mentioned it yesterday. Its happened in the past - but this time it was in reverse! Hope that J has been offered a good position OG. Later, I'll come on and tell you about The Great Shower Drama! which happened this morning. Don't have time right now. Oh, and the heating seems to work this morning so that's good.
THE GREAT SHOWER SURPRISE! OK. I'm having my shower. I get to the end of the shower gel I'm using (I have several on the go, according to which mood I'm in... ) and get the last little bit out, then decide to throw the plastic bottle out, literally. We have a washbasin right next to the shower cubicle so I open the door just enough to throw it straight into the basin to be dealt with later. Immediately, I'm surprised to see the bottle slide quickly and gracefully in an arc around the basin, swoosh! then shoot out again towards me, and land inside the shower! It's come in through the tiny space at the bottom of the door, made by my sliding the folding door inwards. I laugh -- its made my day! Just wish it had been a difficult task on a TV game show, and maybe I would have been given a big prize, LOL!!