I hope everyone is having a blessed Litha and a nice Summer Solstice, wherever you may be. We’re certainly having perfect weather here for it–hot, not too humid, sunny and clear.
Haven’t been posting because I’ve been really busy, and still am, for a while longer. Yesterday was my birthday, but I spent it doing Father’s Day with Dad in the afternoon and then observing Solstice all night. I didn’t go to bed until after ritual ended at 7:18 a.m. local time, so I’m tired and have a little ritual wine hangover today.
My birthday certainly had an interesting beginning, though. I can’t actually say (to paraphrase a well-known quote) that, if you wake up with a live chipmunk under your pillow, nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day. I can posit two things, however:
1. The odds are definitely in your favor, and,
2. whatever happens, you’ll have a better day than the chipmunk is having.
I should have known that Giles and Cerridwen weren’t that interested in me when they kept getting up on the bed and sniffing around my head. It’s no hard deduction to guess what happened: Giles caught the chipmunk, was fleeing the other cats, ran into the bedroom and jumped on the bed, lost the chipmunk when he jumped (he does that a lot) and the chipmunk dashed to the closest available cover, which was under my pillows. There he stayed until I got up and started to make the bed, whereupon we both got a Big Surprise.
The chipmunk has so far eluded all of us and is somewhere in the living room right now. I’m hoping I can catch him before the cats do, and before he dies of thirst in some little cranny. 🙁 He’s just a little one, but he’s sure fast!
I wanted to live in the country, and I love being close to nature, and I love having a rustic kind of home…but live chipmunks in bed with me? That’s just a little too much. Here’s hoping that your Sunday/Father’s Day wasn’t quite so exciting!
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