After eating dinner, walking the dogs and cleaning up the dishes, we decided to sit on the screened-in porch and have dessert and an after dinner limoncello.
We turned off all the inside lights and lit the lantern on the porch. The dogs melted into contented piles around us. We sat listening to the trickle of water left over from our little shower that waited until we were home to really cut loose and rain.
Not long after we had all settled ourselves, we were treated to a coyote concert. The dogs don’t like it much. They prick up their ears and cock their heads from side to side listening. Is it friend or foe they seem to be asking? They really don’t know quite what to make of the coyotes.
As we sit, the silence is absolute. The lack of sound is deafening to our ears. It’s a very strange sensation.
An owl starts hooting in the distance. Is it our owl, the one that has been here all the years that we have, or another? He keeps up his insistent song for ten minutes or so, but as the light fades deeper and deeper, from twilight to something beyond, we hear him no longer. It seems that he has found his bed too, as we must also soon.
It’s been quite a day, and I’m sure Bella will have at least one story to tell you tomorrow about her swimming activities. Gosh is that beaver pond cool!
Until tomorrow ...
Posted by Lynne on 09/06/2009 at 08:59 PM
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