I know I lead an unusual life. While we are not wealthy, we are comfortable. Like many of you I have to work, but I love my work. I get to set my own hours and am guided by the knowledge that things have to be done in a timely manner, rather than by a time clock. I have the pleasure of working from my home, so I don’t have the commute, or the need for an office wardrobe. In general, I’m a very lucky woman!<\/p>\n
\nThat was brought home to me in the simplest of ways yesterday. We have a house on a three acre lot. The lot was originally part of a nursery seventy years ago, so there are lots of old trees and a grove that is beginning to die off. We have purposely left parts of the land rough so that wildlife has cover and habitat. Our neighbors sold their land to a developer, so the wildlife in the area is being squeezed into smaller and smaller areas.
\nWe have raccoons, a possum, beavers, a woodchuck family, deer, gray and fox squirrels, bunnies, moles, voles, mice and a huge range of birds from nuthatches and juncos to cardinals, blue jays, several kinds of woodpeckers, and Cooper’s hawks and herons. We spend a lot of time watching the wildlife and we put food out for them.
\nYesterday, I left the office about 4:15 and walked into the kitchen. I was talking with DH, and I saw some movement outside the kitchen window. As I watched, a fox trotted by. It’s the first time I have seen them cross our land in the fourteen years we have lived here. The fox quickly moved to the west and met up with a second fox and they trotted north through the old grove, stopping now and then to check for the scent of their prey.
\nIf I worked in an office building, I would have still been at my desk, and missed that. It doesn’t take much to remind me how incredibly fortunate I am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I know I lead an unusual life. While we are not wealthy, we are comfortable. Like many of you I have to work, but I love my work. I get to set my own hours and am guided by the … Continue reading