Haiku On A Sunny Day

After working hard (Medical emergencies!  Trauma!  Out Of Town Transports!) for almost the entire shift yesterday (only 4 hours of interrupted sleep), I staggered home this morning on the start of a beautiful day. 

Last week, while on a medical call, I saw a canopied, cushioned porch swing with a big "free" sign on it across the street.  After our patient was dropped off at the hospital, we returned to quarters, grabbed my truck, and as my partner followed me in the ambulance, returned to the area and loaded the swing in the bed.  There was some rust, missing screws, the canopy is slightly torn, and the cushion was trashed, but I used the carpet cleaner to return the cushion to almost new condition, and Nancy sewed up the canopy.

Today, we moved it to the deck & put all the pieces back together.  After rocking for awhile, Nancy moved on and I converted it into a hammock.  I was snoring away in the sun for several hours.  We then converted it back into the swing and rocked away again.  Nancy had put some Terri Clark on, and I was enjoying the music, the warm sun, the birds singing and moving nest stuff into the many birdhouses around, and was watching all the clouds fly by.  Nancy came and sat down again, and I shared all of the beauty I was seeing.  She responded by saying "I smell Poo".  The feeling wasn't gone, just deflated a little.  So much for a segue.

Sun, clouds, birds singing
Music playing, porch swinging
Nancy - I smell Poo

Then I noticed an alarming trend in the big white puffy clouds.  They were evil.  They were violent.  I saw fish eating other fish.  I saw carnivorous horses chasing each other across the sky.  But wait, there was a galloping camel.  There was a duckling trying to fly.  All was peaceful again. 

Violent white clouds
Across the sky, animals
Eating each other

Exhaustion seems to be the best hallucinogen.

And while I spent most of the day in bliss, rocking away on the deck in our like-new, freebie porch swing, Nancy found, cleaned, and filled hummingbird feeders (they were checking out the lilac, and now the feeders), made some wonderful cookies, and planted tomatoes, among other stuff.  All on her day off.  What a gal.

Oh, I did get something done.  Sun tea with freshly picked mint leaves.  Mmmmmmm