Small Packages - St Anthony - Gifts

This fella decided to perch on a string of lights today

 just outside

the window above my kitchen sink...

he perched there for a long time....

left .....

returned and stayed a while longer

off and on

for hours

I decided that he liked his reflection in the glass.

He was less than 5 inches from the window and I watched his beak open and close, open and close as I stood directly in front of him

at the sink.

...and because I know some of you enjoy my

misadventures I will relate my latest.

The front yard was in dire need of a cleanup 

so yesterday I did just that, blowing an enormous pile of debris up and toward the garage door to be bagged.

Not wanting to blow it into the garage,

I hit the coded box and lowered the door.

Now that seems reasonable enough, 

but what you should know is that I have been having trouble with the code box for some time, and lately it has been working 

about 5% of the time.

the other 95% of the time was the hundreds of times

 I kept pounding

 those buttons to no avail.

Yep 104 degree heat and I am locked out.

 I failed to unlock any of the other doors 

into the house.

Do I have an extra emergency key?

yep, hidden INSIDE the garage..

phone, yep, took one INTO the garage..

Go to a neighbor and call a friend, the one

who has another spare key?

She has an unlisted number and I don't know it.

it is programmed into the phone..

INSIDE the garage.

90 minutes pass

90 MINUTES!!!!

hit the four digit code

repeat

code

repeat

code

repeat

Meanwhile I kept working

in between retreating to the shade of the backyard,

and smacking my forehead..

hard 

Now here is where my kids would do an eye roll

Said a very fervent prayer to St Anthony....

tried twice more 

and she rolled up easy peasy.

The best gifts come in small packages.

a hummingbird

an open door

not yet sixty

356 more days to go

but I am getting myself into more

misadventures than I'd like.

ah hell,

gives me somethin' to write about.

Z