Sallyann's Blog: well, im out of bed , finally. Åugust 24

It was a weird night all in all. Internally weird. On the computer till 1am, then unplugging the nightlight in the kitchen and covering up the alarm clock, for perfect darkness I was still WIDE awake at 4AM.

Never sleeping but maybe dozing off and on from 4:30 till close to 5:30; that first phase of sleep was interrupted due to my setting the alarm for 5:30 so i could get the garbage out ( i missed it last week). After turning off the alarm in the dark and falling asleep again, woke abruptly at 6:30, pulled on some clothes and took out the garbage bag and put it in the pail outside the gate. Eyes half open. (:| yawn

At 6:30 It's already perfect outside. Not cool, not hot, just perfect.......but surprisingly the sky is swirling in a kaliedescope of apricot, rose and violet clouds. No wonder there were so few stars shinning last night.

I walked groggily into the garden and picked apples because an apple/pear/fig/berry pie or cobbler or even a crisp might be a fun food invention. Got lucky reaching a few with the rake and pulled them off so they wouldn't fall to the ground and bruise or crack, then picking what may well be close to the last handful of green beans.

Then i went back upstairs and took a nap till 8:22. The hot sun shinning through the window felt good on my back. It helped the little shaky thing that i've developed sometimes when waking . Maybe it's my metabolism, slowed down so much that my internal temperature dips too low. I have always had a problem with a lower than normal temperature. Not a problem really just another 8-| rolling eyes

abnormality.

So I got up and dressed and made the bed, turned on the computer, went down and made a cup of tea and put the bottle of honey out on the deck in the sun so it would soften up, and was delighted to see one of those pretty black and white birds with the red throat pecking around. They've been absent lately and i worried that the pesky stray cat had eaten them all. There seems to be a batch of tiny baby lizards skittering around in and out of the rocks. No wonder the adults all looked so fat and moved so lazily lately. Or do they lay eggs? I mean, some snakes lay eggs and some have live births, must be that way with different types of lizards too eh? A big screaming hawk was moving across the eastern edge of the meadow from one tall oak to the next.

The deer are no longer keeping schedule here, and the jack rabbit is running alone these days his companions missing. Even the noisy crows have moved on. Hummingbirds however, with their consistent territorial clicking, growling, whirring beating of their tiny wings still, defiantly dive around my head and hover "getting in my face".

Still, perfect temperature. But the air smells different. It smells fruity. Here anyway. I did notice driving up the mountain last night different smelling woods the higher i got. AND, there is a Mackeral sky. White / Grey clouds in a pattern resembling scales of a fish. Moving fast from the south west towards the north and east. Just got up to check. The western sky is that clear, bright California blue, but the sky in the East is glowing with irregular white clouds, not the big puffy ones you sometimes see here, different, somehow looking flat and stretched out but not wispy. Fall is coming.

I have a list of little things i want to work on today, pick berries, pears ( if there are any ready) and figs too. Fix hoses, ( sorry about the hoses) #-o d'oh!

Wash the window here in the office, Walk, Read, take in my good pants, :) happy

Now, before i forget. The computer. I used Mozilla last night before i turned off the computer.

And this morning Safari is gone. :-O surprise

There is no icon across the bottom of the screen for Safari. I didn't go into the programs or Mary's files i've only been on the internet so i don't know how it could have been deleted. ~X( at wits' end