20 December 2009
Big Hawk Visitor
12/23/09 16:00
December 23, 2009
Quiet day, light snow. Watching a Cooper's Hawk sitting on my fence for an hour or more, right by the mailbox. Earlier the hawk was hopping around the yard with lunch clutched in one foot. A while ago I went out front to move the just-delivered trash cart with the bird sitting there, unruffled by my passage. Resting up after the meal?
My first truly quiet day in the new house. Spent the morning reading and doing light chores. A friend brought me a new trash container for the kitchen and some much needed groceries. He brought in my long-lost, most important box from the garage after I finally spotted it atop my box-buried workbench, so now I have important papers as well as Willy-chu’s head collars and treat box. Soon dog walks will resume. That is once I adjust to the various large canines and one wee chihuahua strolling unattended up and down the street.
Happy sounding daughter left a voice mail last night to say she and her fiancé went through a snowstorm on the way up towards Denver, but “he's a good snow driver.” They arrived safely. Now perhaps they can both relax a bit after their hectic time of moving, subsisting on burritos and pizza, and shoving so many boxes about here. For me today, the company of the big accipiter out front is plenty. When the dogs are quiet and snoozy they are also pleasant company though they have developed a great need to bark frenziedly at the various other big dogs in surrounding yards plus the street. May those relationships soon work out.
I am so missing my donkey trio, Jasper, Gigi and Ambrose. (See Donkey Departure Day Photos.) They rode off to Texas in a great big stock trailer the week before last, headed for Texas Burro Rescue in Miles. Without a bit of help from my daughter I wasn't going to be able to take good care of them any longer... Donkey energy is so calming. Comical and affectionate by turns, sensitive to moods of their close humans. Yes, very missable creatures, those donkeys...
