Ozark Oddments: It was a dark and stormy night...

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

It was a dark and stormy night...

It didn’t start off that way, but when Tim showed up to ask if N wanted to go out to the woods, they stood around and talked for a while, but by the time they decided to go, a serious thunderstorm was brewing and the sky was very black. So instead of chopping down trees themselves, they decided to watch TV about men chopping down trees. And then it was time for Tim to go home, so they walked out on the porch and it was pouring rain so N said he’d get Tim an umbrella.

He started to grab the one hanging there by the back door. (The sign says "Please place package in tub" in case FedEx or UPS shows up with something)

And then I hear him yelling "M-O-M." Can you find an umbrella for Tim? The wrens have built a nest in the umbrella..

Yes indeed. They had. So, we found another umbrella for Tim to use.

2 comments:

The Weaver of Grass said...: Absolutely beautiful - don't they build in funny places? A robin once built on the farmer's bench in his shed - the bench was so full of tools, bits of baler-band, tins etc. that it was perfectly camouflaged and she reared her brood.; 11:03 AM
Tami Weingartner said...: AXE Men.....UGH.....that show is the devil.; 1:56 PM

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Most of us go through life so absorbed in the cocoon of ourselves that we rarely stop to consider the other. Of course, we think that we do; indeed, we may pride ourselves on our capacity for empathy; we may be considerate and thoughtful in our dealings with others, but how often do we stand before them. so to speak, and experience what it is to be them?--Domenica Macdonald

The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, by Alexander McCall
Smith

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Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering -- because you can't take it in all at once. --Audrey Hepburn

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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all, I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.--Agatha Christie

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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.--Katharine Hepburn

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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

"Two people... told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. I wouldn't mind if to be a Christian were accepted as being the dangerous thing which it is. I wouldn't mind if, when a group of Christians meet for bread and wine, we might well be interrupted and jailed for subversive activities. I wouldn't mind if, once again, we were being thrown to the lions. I do mind, desperately, that the word "Christian" means for so many people smugness, and piosity, and holier-than-thoughness. Who, today, can recognize a Christian because of "how those Christians love one another"?--Madeline L'Engle, "A Circle of Quiet"