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On Wednesday I left work early and made my way up to the summer house for a long weekend. Thursday was Ascension Day, and in the finance industry we also get the Friday off for free, so I had planned to spend a day or two up there with my mother-in-law before she would then have visitors from Friday to Sunday.
Volunteering for a couple of days alone with your mother-in-law? Indeed! We seem to get along just fine, and we had a great couple of days together in the wonderful sunshine. I was literally outside from 5am to 11pm each day, and in the end I extended my stay with another day, which meant that since the mother-in-laws friends would be allotted the main bedroom and I didn’t feel like sharing a room with my MiL I ended up sleeping outside in the hammock.
Imagine waking up to the rising sun, the chirping of little birds and the freshness of the open air! Sounds rather like a peaceful awakening, no? No! I woke up because I could feel a strange weight on my belly, and when I opened my eyes there was a huge crow sitting on top of me… Now, the crow got as startled as I did when I woke up, so it immediately took off, meaning that my Saturday morning started with a vision of large flapping black and gray wings… I like nature, but all things in moderation, especially first thing in the morning!
Also we have a few blooming roses, and more on their way. This one above is one that was already there when we bought the place last year, but the little red rose next to it (that I pulled from the ground outside my apartment before the bulldozers arrive to re-do the landscaping) seems to be preparing at least a few buds and the large white climbing rose outside the bedroom window will probably start blooming within the next week. And then there’s a rose I forgot to take a picture of; a red rose that I bought for my husband because he likes red roses. It has one flower and one bud , but the red colour of the petals? Stunning, but not very red. At all. in fact, it’s a slightly darker shade of peach than the centre of the white rose pictured above… Ah, well; that’s what you get for buying a rose in a supermarket, but it’s pretty all the same.
>What a startle to wake up to a crow on you! Your rose is beautiful. My husband loves red roses, too – sorry your red rose is not red!
>;~(0) and that crow is still dining out on the story! You'll need um crow nets on your hammock?
>a bit of a scare for me if a crow was sitting on me…usually the bugs would have eaten me alive if I tried to sleep outside…but it is a lovely thought…
>Sleeping on a hammock outdoors, sounds ideal don't try it in Aberdeen though. Blimey just as well it wasn't a Raven, that would have really freaked you out.
>Your experiences with crows and deer suggest that you radiate perhaps a little too much good will toward the world. At least, for your comfort. From here (and no doubt from the deer's and crow's perspectives) it's quite lovely to think about.
>Holley: It's beautiful in it's own way, and we have another red rose that's actually red, so it's all good… The husband's next visit to Denmark will be in late July, so the flowers will be gone by then anyway.Diana: Or maybe just a scarecrow in the oak tree above the hammock?Donna: The mosquitoes don't really bite me that much, so as long as no large birds land on me I really enjoy sleeping outside. Alistair: Quoth the crow: What the F are you doing in MY hammock?Stacy: I like nature, I really do, but I do seem to have some very close encounters with the local wild-life…