A Smiling Kind of Day

Some days are just meant to make us smile!  So far this is one of them.

First of all the sun is out and shining.  Yea!  There is still a layer or two of snow strategically lying in the yard, but I am betting it will be melted soon.

As usual, I have been a bad bird mom and I knew I had to go out and feed the little critters.  I cleared a path to the feeders and hauled the seed out to them, all the while imagining a line of huffy little bodies and faces giving me dirty looks as I finally took care of them.  The Blue Jays and Cardinals and some other bigger birds have been visiting our deck to steal cat food from the bowls I put out for the stray kitties who pass through.  Apparently birds love the cat food as much as the cats.

After finishing my job, I was overcome with a desire to spend a little time in the snow.  Since I knew better than to throw myself down to make a snow angel because I had visions of not being able to get up, I decided to take my snow shovel and just clear a place or two to help the melting process.  I used the blade to break it up in different patterns.  Who says "older" people can't play in the snow, too!


As I did all of this, I noticed my cat Chloe was very busy trying to clear the snow from the spot in a flower bed that she has chosen as her own special poo spot.  She worked and worked, but just as she tried to do her "business" snow fell back into the spot.  Finally she gave up ran to the open door to the house, ran to the closet where the litter box is located and quickly, with a sigh of relief.....well you get the idea.  Now that made me smile too.

Last night I did make it until the new year and said hello 2010.  Normally I don't do this but as I surfed through the channels, I landed on the CNN channel.  Much to my surprised and joy, there was Anderson Cooper!  Anderson Cooper in Times Square!  I really do like AC and it made me happy, happy to see in the new year with him "by my side."  The only flaw in my little fantasy was that Kathy Griffin was standing in "my spot".  Don't much care for her, but she did make AC cringe and smile on a few occasions and I do love those dimples!  Just for the record Jim was having his own perfect fantasy watching some football or basketball game on the other television!



Several people in the crowds mentioned that spending New Years Eve in Times Square was on their bucket list.  Sounds great to me, too!  In person instead of just watching on television!

I hope you,too, are having a smiling kind of day!