Glimmers Of A Sense Of Humour

Today was a good day... (remember it is one day bad... one day good... always I am moving forward). Today some friends of my parents took my mom and dad out for lunch in Chetwynd at the Chinese food restaurant that my mom and dad love to go to.  They invited Daughter #2 and me to go too... I drove there and back in my own vehicle while mom and dad went with their friends. We had a lovely meal not like there will be much opportunity to do something like that again.

Afterwards Daughter #2 and I stayed behind to do a little shopping... and we did some girly things which were a real pleasure. On the way home I was listening to loud music... Jon Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Santana, Cheryl Crowe... all great music but Daughter #2 and I had the music cranked and I began to look around me and realized that the turn of summer has come. I couldn't believe it... there before my eyes was the turn of summer! It resonated for me because I remembered lying in bed this morning and realizing that the bird song had changed. The deep summer is upon us because the chickadees are back... they go further north than here to nest and while a few stay around there are far fewer here in the summer than there are in the spring and fall... Anyway there I lay in bed listening to the birds and I realized that the birdsong had changed... I can't explain it but it was like I could understand what they were saying. They were singing but they are singing different songs.  And their songs are not the mating calls of spring and early summer... they are winding down their nesting habits... that's what they were saying. Then when I was driving along today I began to notice the Fireweed. Usually Fireweed is a signal of the end of summer and while it hasn't yet turned to fuzz it is completely out in bloom and only days away from starting to see the first signs of fading for the year. I passed field after field of Fireweed.

As I got closer to home I started noticing a plant that I can safely say doesn't bloom until after the middle of summer... It is a plant that Sir Arsewipe and I have sniggered and snorked about over the years... as a result when I saw it the first thing that popped into my mind was of course Sir Arsewipe  and for the first time I didn't feel like crying... as a matter of a fact I started to laugh... and here it is...

We've always called it a Dickweed... so how very fitting that it reminds me of Sir Arsewipe...!

How's that for a sense of humour?!