I was trying to sleep this morning around 6:30 when I heard this insistent beeping. Four short beeps and a pause, four short beeps and a pause, four short beeps….. You get the picture.
\nMy first thought was that the smoke alarm went off. But the smoke alarm has one long high pitched scream of a sound. Then, I thought that Mother was listening to the messages on her answering machine…..or perhaps the answering machine was signaling that there were messages to be read. Just about the time I thought I should check on DH, he opened the door and said that the noise was his cell phone.<\/p>\n
\nIt seems that phone has the ability to ring louder in “Alert” mode, so that DH can hear it over construction noise. The sender of the message presses a button to switch to “Alert” mode. So…..someone out there was sending my husband a message at 6:30 in the morning, waking up the entire neighborhood!
\nHe figures one of the construction crew brushed against their phone and set it off accidentally. Sure sounds unlikely to me. I’m going to put that phone out of it’s misery and recycle a little leftover mortar at the same time!
\nSo….I made a cup of tea and sat near the big window in the kitchen as the sun came up. The sky was overcast with pearly clouds that lost their luminescence as the light grew. Then several clouds turned a deep rose. Moments later the tallest trees looked like they were afire as the rays of the sun found them. I hadn’t realized their leaves had begun to turn color. The very top, and the east side of the trees were a golden yellow; the west side still had shades of green.
\nToday was a glorious summer day, the kind we remember when winter closes in around us. Absorb all the golden sunshine, and glorious color you can, for all too soon the earth will be sleeping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was trying to sleep this morning around 6:30 when I heard this insistent beeping. Four short beeps and a pause, four short beeps and a pause, four short beeps….. You get the picture. My first thought was that the … Continue reading