A long...slow...day - highlighted by a few moments of excitement. Every year I need to spend a day hoeing out the mounds of paper that pile up in my office. A day just for general organization. A day just to toss the crap I don't need (or has expired) and make a series of "to do" lists. Along the way, I planned our secret 20th anniversary trip and met with two potential landscapers.
My only excitement was when I heard a "thump" mid-morning and went investigating around the house to see what had happened. What I found was a motionless bird lying below our front windows. Upon closer inspection I learned three things - it wasn't dead, it was a Palliated Woodpecker (very rare I am told) and the cat, not ten feet away, was still asleep. What to do? Do I leave it and hope if flys away? Wake the cat so he can take care of it? Or just club it over the head and be done with it. I decided to let nature take its course and within 20 minutes, the stunned bird regained it's senses and took flight.
Alex got off the bus, we went and picked up Max and their cousin Ethan from roller skating, and came back home so I could whip up a quick dinner of Fast Mac and Hot Dogs (yummo). I then dropped the kids at the in-laws and headed to East Rochester in a driving rain to meet a potential client. It's hard to believe I'm closing in on the end of my first week off...
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