Shift and sniff ...

Lunch today was a back porch treat. After a less than satisfying Lean Cuisine, purchased thankfully mostly for its convenience, else I would have thrown myself into a giant vat of chocolate pudding if there had been one handy, I made my way to the employer's back porch with its seven nubby brick steps to choose from. Choosing the second step from the top, I opened my ongoing read "The Happiness Project" by Gretchen Rubin  http://www.happinessproject.com/ .  Since borrowing this book from the local library, I have had to renew this book and one other on three occasions. Seems to me, two weeks just isn't enough time to borrow a whole stack of books. Apparently neither is three or four. Yeah yeah, I hear ya ... even though you haven't yet pointed out the obvious.

Anyways, my after lunch treat wasn't the brick steps growing harder under my arse by the minute, it was their warmth. They had been soaking up the sun all morning long and were happy to share. Sure, I squirmed and shifted positions more than a few times after my butt cheeks went numb, and ended up popping a lens out of my ill placed sunglasses during one of those shifting sessions, but I was feeling perfectly toasty as I lost myself in two whole chapters. The only other thing to interrupt my concentration was the scent of a nearby Magnolia grandiflora http://www.floridata.com/ref/m/magno_g.cfm 
calling to me with its lemony balm.  A pleasantly intermittent interruption which I would have caputured in a bottle like a firefly, if it were any more palpable, and a very seductive experience that prompted me to write this short post which will interest none of you, but will serve my everyday appreciation of nature thereby causing me to revel in the joy of being alive.


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