Things, Stuff & Such

I have posted before about how much I enjoy watching birds come around to feed from the feeder and drink from the bird bath. Reciently, a small rabbit has joined the group. He has been around several times and comes right up to the screen. I got some video with my camera of him eating a flower. One thing I liked about the bird bath right away was how it looks in the sun filled with water. The bowl is made of blue glass and when you add clear water and sunlight it looks very cool. It even cast a blue light on the ground when the sun is high in the sky. Yesterday that blue light on the ground started to smolder. The bowl and water were acting like a magafying glass and burning the leaves on the ground! I could see a good amount of smoke coming from the ground just below the bath. When I went outside to dump the bath water on the ground I could hear the dry leaves and brush crackle as they were being cooked. I dumped the bowl of water where the smoke was coming from and my mother brought out a pitcher full of water. I dumped that and stired the now muddy ground a bit to make sure the fire was out. I couldn’t help but think what if this had happeded Monday instead of Sunday. No one would have been around to stop the smoldering. Scary.

This morning Syria sent me an email at work telling me it is going to be colder than previously expected this weekend. I had packed for high 50′s weather but not the 30′s and teens forecast. I was able to leave work earlier than planned to stop at home to grab my jacket. Jacket in hand, I was off to the airport.
I made better time on the highway than I thought I would so I had some time to kill. While I was standing outside, takeing what would be my last smoke for many hours, a woman asked me to watch her two large bags while she went inside to search for a porter. We had spoken a little as smokers do when they are huddled out side doing their dirty deeds. I said no problem an decided to take the oportunity to have one final smoke (yes, it’s sad). Several minutes later she returned and told me she would have to take her bags inside herself. I could tell she was dreading lugging both big bags inside. I asked her if she would like me to help take the bags inside. She took the suitcase that was on wheels and I grabbed the other. It was heavy – I would have had difficulty moving them both. We got to the airline desk and I put the suitcase down. She thanked me and I wished her a good flight. As I began to leave she very kindly asked her if I would accept a tip. I politely declined and we said our good byes.