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I’ve been busy working outside, lately. It’s called “work,” but I consider it more playtime than anything else. I prefer to hang out with the birds (saw a red-tailed hawk poking around this morning), squirrels, and other hidden wildlife. And the trees, too, of course. They don’t talk so I get to think.
While my mind was meandering, a nursery rhyme kept reappearing in my head, try as I might to shoo it away.
One, two
Buckle Slip on my shoe.
Three, four,
Shut the door.
Five, six,
Pick up sticks.
Seven, eight,
Lay them straight.
Nine, ten,
Big fat hen Do it all again.
Ahhhh. Summer.
♥ Stacy
Stacy Rambles 
Aren’t the trees and the birds the best company? You feel their presence, they feel yours, yet they don’t crowd your silent mind with words. Loved your nursery rhyme. 🙂
Yes….”don’t crowd your silent mind with words.” Exactly! ❤
That looks like a good productive day.
So are you now going to find ohter rhymes and fit your work to them?
No, I think I’m just not going to do any more work, Guap. ❤
I would love to be spending more time outside. Currently, I am stuck indoors paying for my last trip outside… 2nd degree sunburn. I have to find more effective sunscreen or learn not to stay out so long!
xxx
I use 100 SPF on days like we’ve had for about a week now – 100 degrees in the shade! Even though I turn brown, I still am of an age where I think “skin cancer” when I get too much sun. (That’s something the young don’t worry about, do they?) ❤
Oh pish tosh. I have since my second case of sun poisoning. I suppose having a handful removed before I was thirty helped age my outlook. 😉
xxx
Dearest Stacy,
You sure do enjoy your heavenly place and to be outdoors and one with nature is pure bliss. It makes for good appetite and sleeping like a rose!
Hugs to you,
Mariette
Indeed, it does, Mariette! ❤
So cute – I love how you turn work into playtime! I have a few dozen of those little stick piles around. The ones that don’t get burned turn into lovely homes for wildlife! Ha ha! So I put them where they won’t be seen. You know, just in case I don’t get to them…… Love your nursery rhyme! xx
That’s a good idea. Next time I start a pile, I’ll put it where the animals can use it, too! ❤
There is always so much to do out in the garden. Wish we had more hours in the day.
So do I, Gayle! ❤
Ahhh, summer. When you can hum nursery rhymes while you *do it all again* life isn’t half bad, is it? 🙂
No, not bad at all, Kathy. And I did think of you, too, while working in my wood pile. Norm is going to teach me to use the chain saw this weekend so that I can chop my first batch of wood for this winter. ❤