SATURDAY MORNING~
What a wonderful day off yesterday. The sun was out, it was hot and breezy, and i started about 10am working out in the yard. It was a welcome change from the day before, when i grimly took my tax papers to the accountant. First time in my life i owed the government, a whopping thousand dollars. I sent in all the the state tax due, and will have to take the penality from the federal, but, all the other bills are paid, so, i can either bitch and moan, or be thankful i was able to pay as much as i did. I'll take the thankful route, because i can't change the fact that i owed, just my approach to it all.
The backyard looked like a cross between a cozy redneck's dream and martha stewarts worst nightmare. Jeeezz, how did it get that way??? Only one way to start, one step at at time. I went to the firehouse and got a campfire permit, and started burning all the old sticks and lawn debris. Rikk came out, and when he saw i wasn't going to stop, took over the firetending. Gone went the broken wooden chairs. What the heck, throw in the warped wooden table too. I didn't get nervous until the old christmas trees were thrown on the fire....almost melted the clothes line!!
Yard raked, watered, and new grass-seed. The water sprite perched on the rim of the brick wishing well, with water splashing over her toes, and then the yearly ritual of coins thrown in for luck...Tiger lilies planted along the back fence, and a new area planned for this year's tomatoes and peppers..
By six pm, all looked serene and beautiful again. I will miss this house, truly, but, it is time to let it be someone else's dream, and journey on.
I couldn't let the outdoors go, and Rikk and i got a bucket of chicken and drove to the State Park just up the street. Swan Park, i call it, because of the many swans that grace it's lake. We picniced by the water's edge, with no one else there but the swans and ducks, and watched the sun set over the water.
The finale to a beautiful day? As we walked back to the car, i looked up at the sky. There in the fiery orange glow of the sunset, the portrait of a fox in the clouds. Startled, i grabbed Rikk's arm and said"what do you see?" He saw it too, the face of a Fox, staring down at us...I take it as an omen....This fox is getting ready to do some incredible things....
Out of the clouds and into the shower. Work awaits, sales meeting at nine.