A blustery, chilly gray day with intermittent rain, some of
it hard and some no more than a sprinkle.
There is sound filling the morning, pine trees and wind chimes, with the
cane sounding like some large animal is rooting around in there, who knows, one
could be. As I was headed to school
this morning, I almost collided with a small herd of deer that forgot to look
both ways. A small buck and several
does leaped from the thicket lining Youpon.
If they had come from a yard on the right, I could not have stopped in
time, but because I saw the flash of them out the driver's side window I had
time to stop before I hit them. I am
sure they were as startled as I was, though I know there are more deer roaming
around the neighborhood than there used to be.
Too much concrete, too few trees left, and I noticed down the low end of
Toddville they are clearing more. <sigh>
They cleared a lot of trees from that huge lot before you get to Meyer,
but have done nothing with the lot for the last year or so. And I don't know why they are cutting the
trees down again, a mystery that will be solved at some future time.
It's Monday, and feels like Monday, the sort of Monday they
write cartoons about. I have been
saving this haiku for just such a day!
Let's put up the net
and make a green world of pretend
in the house.
Buson
I would like to pretend that it's some day besides Monday,
and some weather besides what we've got.
I would like to pretend that wind from the north never gives me a rotten
headache, and that I love gray gloomy days, and the wind. I will have to pretend sunshine until there
is some. It seems that even my students
today would rather be home and sleeping as well. Today is the first day I have seen them try to paint with their
heads pillowed on their arms at the tables.
There was a 5th grad tour and half the class was out for band, or
orchestra, or drama or chorus. Perhaps
things will be better Wednesday. It
will almost have to be by definition, it won't be Monday!
So until it isn't Monday, have a nice green pretend that
it's some other day <smile>!
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