Later Today

Later Today

Walking out in my backyard to enjoy the morning sun, I was surprised at stuff I started seeing around my lawn. It was a bit windy overnight, but not this windy. Unfortunately, I knew that yesterday my daughter was visiting with her two kids, and the kids played out in the yard for a good while before they left.

Randy and Alice were great kids, but still little. Randy, four, and Alice was turning three in a month. They love my yard because it’s all fenced in, so they can play there without an adult hovering over them. However, from the look out there, that may change…

The first thing that caught my eye was the path through one of the gardens. There wasn’t actually a path through that garden. The new path was scrolly, winding back and forth between the tall flowers, and smushing many of the shorter ones…

Then I noticed my radio, sitting in the grass, apparently turned on, except totally quiet because the batteries were dead. There were a few balls here and there also, I’d sent them out with balls. One ball was sitting up on the edge of the roof, held up there by the gutter.

Their stuffed animals were here and there, a parrot, two bears, and then in my little fountain, a fish, also stuffed and made of cloth, obviously not swimming.

At the end of the visit, my daughter suddenly realized it was later than she thought. They had to rush to pick up her husband at the train station. Now I understood the look on her face as she hustled the kids in, and then to the car, saying “I’m so sorry” six times as she buckled them in and took off.

We just may be discussing this later today…