February 16th

What makes us happy one day and not the next?  Is it really just how well we slept the night before?  Or how good that coffee (or whatever one drinks in the morning) tasted?  Or just random hormonal shifts from one day to the next?  Or can it be, as some have suggested just a choice we make, whether conscious or subconsciously?  Does it really matter?  After a rough start this morning I decided to have a good day.  It wasn't an exceptionally rough start.  Mostly just a got out of bed on the wrong side sort.  But as I was getting a little frustrated shoveling snow I thought about how much my back had been hurting just a few days ago and I started to relax with the shoveling and not do it in such a stressful -I have to get this done now- sort of way.  As if that change within myself was some kind of a signal another neighbor came by and used his snowblower to clear off the end of my driveway.  I have some nice neighbors that I really never talk to...

Crows happened today.  Right after I parked my car at the grocery store a crow landed by the door to my car and started squawking at me.  The texts with my daughter went something like this:

Me-Do you want anything at the store?
Daughter-"A working brain"
M-"If I only had a brain... 🎵"
M-"I just had a crow walk on the roof of my car."
D-"YOU'RE THE SCARECROW"
D-"DON'T SING ANYMORE THEY'LL HEAR YOU"
D-Grocery list
M-"It was outside the car talking to me... It brought friends."
D-"NOOOOO"
D-"Remember that Crows remember faces and teach them to their young if deemed appropriate."
M & D- more grocery conversation
M-"When it first started talking to me I just thought of Uncle Bill... it has been a seeing dead people kind of day..."
D-"Oof"
M-"Let's not read anything into this."

HA!  The crow had the last laugh.  When I went out to the car later on I noticed where a bird had left me a present.  I hope they don't remember me next time.  😏



Today I will choose the sunset and the moon later as my happy things.  In this case the part of the sky is that opposite of where the sun was going down.  It was a gorgeous shade of blue.  I took a picture that I will post at the end.  The darkening blue sky with the white snow covered trees was just lovely.  The moon hung low in the sky on my way home tonight.  It is almost at the third quarter and it looked like a hanging planter that had one broken chain.

Crows

The camera didn't get the color true.