A Very Strange Day
Here are a few weird things that happened to me today. Nothing too incredibly bizarre, but enough to make me wonder if I dreamt some of it:
When the kids went down for a nap I tried to sit out on the deck to relax and warm up in the sun after a long string of cool days. Every time I went to sit down the sun would shine for 15 seconds and then go behind a big white/grey cloud that was shaped like a walrus. This happened three times within a half hour period. I gave up and went inside.
Our neighbor's dog won't keep away from our house. He's here all the time now, watching us through the slider or the kitchen window. He followed these two women walking up the street today while I was out gardening with the kids and they were like, "Oh, is this your dog?" and I say "No, it's the neighbor's. He's very friendly. His name is Curtis." He cavorts with them up the street for a bit and then comes back down to our yard. The women look back down toward us as though they're wondering, "why would that woman lie about owning that dog??" As far as I know they walk the hill most every day and see him in front of our house all the time. I'm wondering if we are officially his new owners? We didn't pick him to be our dog, but he seems to have picked us to hang out with...
A while later I was in the living room and caught sight of some crows on the lawn. I hear them up in the trees on occasion, but rarely do they come down onto the yard. Suddenly swarms of them descend on the grass. Dozens of murders, making all kind of noise and I'm thinking, what is out there that they're after?? I slowly step out the slider, looking all around and they are everywhere. In the trees, flying over head, on the ground under one of the feeders. I am so close to freaking out. I've never seen anything like this. Ever. I'm about to run back inside and go upstairs and check on the kids and then all of a sudden they all fly away, into the trees around the furthest reaches of our property. But I can see they're just sitting there, watching me. I check to see what they were gathering around, and there's nothing at all there.
Yes, I know. These sound like the rantings of a woman who's spent too much time watching old Hitchcock flicks, but it's just been one of those days. And just in case these are signs of the end of days, I'm going to have me another piece of chocolate silk pie.
When the kids went down for a nap I tried to sit out on the deck to relax and warm up in the sun after a long string of cool days. Every time I went to sit down the sun would shine for 15 seconds and then go behind a big white/grey cloud that was shaped like a walrus. This happened three times within a half hour period. I gave up and went inside.
Our neighbor's dog won't keep away from our house. He's here all the time now, watching us through the slider or the kitchen window. He followed these two women walking up the street today while I was out gardening with the kids and they were like, "Oh, is this your dog?" and I say "No, it's the neighbor's. He's very friendly. His name is Curtis." He cavorts with them up the street for a bit and then comes back down to our yard. The women look back down toward us as though they're wondering, "why would that woman lie about owning that dog??" As far as I know they walk the hill most every day and see him in front of our house all the time. I'm wondering if we are officially his new owners? We didn't pick him to be our dog, but he seems to have picked us to hang out with...
A while later I was in the living room and caught sight of some crows on the lawn. I hear them up in the trees on occasion, but rarely do they come down onto the yard. Suddenly swarms of them descend on the grass. Dozens of murders, making all kind of noise and I'm thinking, what is out there that they're after?? I slowly step out the slider, looking all around and they are everywhere. In the trees, flying over head, on the ground under one of the feeders. I am so close to freaking out. I've never seen anything like this. Ever. I'm about to run back inside and go upstairs and check on the kids and then all of a sudden they all fly away, into the trees around the furthest reaches of our property. But I can see they're just sitting there, watching me. I check to see what they were gathering around, and there's nothing at all there.
Yes, I know. These sound like the rantings of a woman who's spent too much time watching old Hitchcock flicks, but it's just been one of those days. And just in case these are signs of the end of days, I'm going to have me another piece of chocolate silk pie.
posted by Kristen @ 8:40 PM
4 Comments:
At 11:02 PM,
Ernesto Burden said…
Stay calm , beloved; I'll be home soon... (Man, you go out of town for two nights for work and everything gets freaky! Then again, I haven't slept a wink since I left and my pool game is pathetic... of course it always was...)
At 9:43 AM,
Anonymous said…
OMG, I also had one of those "strange days" a couple of weeks back. I was also compelled to blog it, but to sum it up, what should have been a weird day included--a front door that decided to, out of the blue, permanently lock me in my own apartment, an exhibitionist spotted near the bike trial I was on, and a delivery of OXYGEN TANKS to my BACK door while I was gone (???), all capped off by a dream I had that my mom visited and replaced all my adult bedroom furniture with child-sized furniture. Mind you, this was all over the course of about 3-4 hours.
Normally my evenings are so routine and dull, I just have no clue how the universe aligned to create such a strange series of events. Needless to say, it gave the night quite a strange feeling "aire" about it, that it did...
At 8:06 PM,
Rick Broussard said…
Here's my bit of weirdness. After a long drive back from Maryland, where we dropped my first-born off at St. John's College (long story, soon to appear on my blog) I went out to check my garden. It's been a great year for gardening, but just about everything is so lush that you have to dig down through a mix of leaves and vines to find the good stuff. One exception is my two stalwart rows of corn which have been producing a bounty of small, tender and delicious ears and which have given a sense of gravitas to an otherwise silly patch of overgrown sunflowers and tomato hedges. So imagine my distress to see about a third of my cornstalks down. I looked down to see the ears were stripped of husks and had been gnawed down into the cobs by what must have been rows of sharp little teeth. This was puzzling. The perennial hordes of woodchucks who live in our gully had long ago required me to fence my garden. Then, upon Investigation, I realized that I had dumped a pile of grass clippings against the outside of the fence and apparently provided a handy ramp for some hungry, and probably avaricious, creature to gain entrance. But, I wondered, if it needed a ramp to get in, how did it get out? Or has it gotten out? I mean, why would it leave this pasture of plenty? This discouraged me from plunging right into my cucumber patch to pick the bloated green monsters that had appeared during my four days away. I went into the garage to put on some shoes and get a stick, and on my way back out I saw the cornrow shaking as if some large creature was trying to climb up to the ears, falling and trying again. I ran to the garden, stick in hand, ready to send whatever it was flying like a polo puck (or whatever they hit in polo) but as I drew near to the garden I still could not see what was causing the ruckus. I was within 20 feet and was preparing to poke my stick down between the cornrows when something black with glistening eyes screeched loudly and came flying right toward my head.
One old black crow.
At 7:01 PM,
Ernesto Burden said…
From the Federation of International Polo:
SIZE OF BALL
The size of the ball shall be 3 to 3.5 inches (76 to 89 millimetres) in
diameter; the weight of the ball shall be within the limits of 4.25 to 4.75
ounces (120 to 135 grams).
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