For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Watching the chipmunks, listening to rain, feeling the pain, touched the brain.Β And out came this poem.Β I hope you will enjoy it.
Smart Chipmunks
Chipmunks running all around,
Hiding peanuts underground.
Finding food, getting ready,
This winter they’ll be ready.
When it’s raining still they go,
Quickly now before the snow.
They will soon now go and hide
In their homes, and there abide.
Right now going in the rain,
Idea comes from their brain.
Get some wood and build an ark,
Fill with peanuts dawn till dark.
It rains nearly every day,
So they are smart, I do say.
Smarter still, they stay inside,
From winter’s cold they will hide!
Β© 2019 Steve McLeod.
Hello everyone on this cold and wet autumn day!πππΒ Seems like it is always like that lately.Β And today is Friday 13th and of course you know what that means!Β It means it’s Friday 13th.ππΉΒ Just another day on the calendar.πΒ Some people think it’s a terrible day.Β Like Monday.Β Or maybe worse.π³Β It’s a day.Β A beautiful day if we want it to be.πΒ For me, I want it to be a beautiful day.ππ²Β A special day. πΌ A really good day. π€ΈββοΈπ» It’s cloudy, rainy and cold.Β But the sun continues to shine anyway.ππΊπ

Right now I am kind of laid up due to hurting myself last week. π The pain is extremely severe at times.Β So I can’t do much. π₯ Some days just walking around my little apartment is quite a task.Β So it’s raining outside and it’s kind of raining inside too.Β But the sun is still shining. ππ And it’s a beautiful day.ππΒ We can choose to make it a cloudy miserable day or we can choose to make it a sunny beautiful day.Β I choose sun and beautiful.ππΈπΏ

Because of this extra pain lately it has really slowed me down a lot in everything.πΒ Which is why I am slow getting my posts out lately as well.Β It takes me so long to do other things that it makes me slow at my writing too.πβΒ So for those that are wondering, that’s the reason.Β Hopefully I will get back to normal soon.π€Β But it might actually take a few months to really get back on my feet like I should be.Β Happens sometimes.Β It has happened before.Β But it’s still a beautiful day and the sun continues to shine. ππ Even though it’s raining outside.Β But above those clouds, the sun is shining brightly.

Speaking of rain.Β We have had a lot lately.π²π§Β More than normal.Β So everything is thoroughly soaked.Β The ground squishes when I walk on it.Β With all the rain last night I imagine that my forest path is under water in places again.Β Happens sometimes.Β No way to walk around it.Β Just have to go through it and get wet feet.π¬πΉΒ And with all this rain, the chipmunks borrowed some scraps of wood to build themselves a boat so they could come and get peanuts without getting wet!ππΏβ΅ Okay, that part is a joke.Β It’s always good to laugh.ππΉπ€£

Hmm, the goldfinches are at the bird feeder eating sunflower seeds.Β Hopefully the neighbor doesn’t see that.ππΒ He doesn’t like birds, as most of you probably remember from before.π€ͺΒ The chickadees are bouncing through the air to the feeder, picking up a seed, then back to the shrub to peck it open and eat their prize.Β They always seem to look so happy getting their little seed.πΒ It doesn’t take a lot to make these little birds satisfied.Β Just what they need, that’s all.Β How different with us.π€Β We always want more and more.ππ

Well, guess that’s all for now.Β Didn’t really say much, just sort of rambled on.π€πΒ Happens with me sometimes.ππΉΒ I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
Β© 2019 Steve McLeod.