What a time for you two to show up...

We woke up this morning to a rather nice surprise.  I have written about two ducks, mallards, a male and a female, who would come around once in a while and hang out in the pond.  We called them "Betty and Joe" after my mom and dad.  They always had ducks down on the river in Zanesville and loved to watch them.  They would say that was such a peaceful time for them.  So when "Betty and Joe" would come to our pond, we would always talk to them (goofy, I know), and when they would leave we would say they were going to Wal-Mart or K-Mart for the blue light specials.

Well, this morning they showed up.  And they stayed here pretty much most of the day.  That was just what we needed after losing all the fish.  It was like they were here just to add some calmness to our week.  Way to go, "Betty and Joe."

 

Mallards are really very pretty ducks and fun to watch.  They seem to gargle when they drink, they like to preen, they waddle when they are on the land eating the corn and seeds that are out for the birds, and when they pretty much stand on their head trying to reach some food on the bottom  of the pond it's funny to watch their tails shake and wiggle.  So that was what we did off and on today.  Yeah, we had lots of other things we did, but when we would go back to the windows in the "Pentagon" they were still there.  And, oh yeah, these were real ducks, not my decoys.

I know I probably won't say this quite elloquently enough for some, but there are times when just sitting, watching ducks on the pond -- or birds at our feeders, -- or doves one moment walking around on the ground pecking at seeds and then the next so gracefully jumping into the air, flying like a missle, -- or wind blowing through the trees across the back of the yard -- there are times like these when nothing else is necessary.


Sometimes "situations" just come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there...to serve some sort of purpose, to teach you a lesson or to help you begin to understand the "grand plan." You never know what these "situations" may be, but when you lay your eyes on them, you know at that very moment they will affect your life in some way -- maybe some profound way. And sometimes things happen to you that at the time may seem horrible, painful and unfair, but in reflection you realize that without experiencing these situations you would have never started your journey down the path to realizing that there is a "grand plan" and you play a part in it.

It is hard for a lot of the younger generation to understand Thoreau, who lived by a pond and didn't own a bass boat or a diving snorkel.

Hooah