This picture accurately portrays how I've been feeling all day. Except rather than collapsing exhausted in a canoe, I've been roaming restless, getting nothing accomplished and snapping at family members. Since arriving home, I've turned into a bundle of frayed nerve endings ready to jump at the slightest provocation. So much for maturity.
Two cool things:
1) There were a pair of ospreys today fishing outside the house, so close I could see their black eye masks. They would soar and hover still in the air, displaying that characteristic predatory-bird stance. Suddenly, one of them folded itself up and hit the water with a tremendous splash. At first I thought it was in trouble, it was in the lake for so long, but it eventually surfaced, fighting an enormous fish. It was in the water for quite awhile before taking off again (the fish got away.)
2) This isn't so cool for some people, but a local creek has flooded...badly. People are scrambling to sandbag their homes, but unless we get more rain, the crest has probably passed by. Still, entire roads are washed out, and at least one house and numerous sheds and barns are flooded out. We drove out there to survey the damage, and it was LOVELY traveling with my parents ("Turn down this road, Laura. No, go left instead. Oh, just drive through this, it'll be fine. Hmm, go to the end and turn around. Oh wait, there's a LOT of water here, hey? Well, can you see where the ditch is? No? Oh, and there's just one more place I want to see..)
I love my family. But I really, really need to be somewhere else right now.
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