WAKING UP IN THE OZARKS

 

       Getting up this morning, I noticed that both the bird feeder and the squirrel feeder needed filling, so got some food for them.  And walking out onto the front porch and scaring a squirrel down the banister, I saw on the wet grass three squirrels and a large, colorful lizard, and a strange little creature that was followed by its caring mother, a rabbit.  The lizard ran for its bush at the corner of the house and the rabbits and squirrels ran into the woods.  It was so nice to see the variety of animals all relaxing together in a small area of lawn, even a big lizard, illustrating to us how we should be.

       Now the squirrels are taking turns at their feeder on the porch, and a cardinal and nuthatch are on the bird feeder.  I think I'll sit out there later today and smoke my Missouri Meerschaum corncob pipe, enjoying our thirty-first year in the Ozarks and my fifteenth year of retirement. 

 

 

 

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