While I may wish that my inner alarm clock could be switched off as easily as the mechanical contraption that normally screeches me awake at some ungodly hour, I was glad to be woken by the kiss of dawn… just to walk the few yards through the dew-drenched grass that now desperately needs cutting, down to the fence, to watch the morning mists turn gold. The soft light was gentle on aching eyes, the warmth a mere shiver away from chilled and the fresh silence a beautiful antidote to fevered dreams and a mind that had spent the night being weirder than my normal weird.
The sparrows that I knew I would miss from my old garden have a contingent nesting on my roof…and feeding in my garden. There were rabbits in the field and my scruffy robin, now almost fully fledged, was already after his breakfast.
Ani and I sat on the damp chairs of the very wonky and grandly-named patio, quietly accepting the gift of the dawn… a beautiful few moments…
…until a damnable hot-air balloon invaded what Ani has designated ‘her’ airspace and all hell broke loose….
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
Oops…
Hope the mayhem calmed down quickly! 🙂
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As soon as I managed to get her inside and draw the curtains again 😉
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❤
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It could be worse. A hot air balloon beats out a traffic copter.
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We get low flying army helicopters… though we also get aerobatics practice too 🙂
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Haha! Ani is hilarious. Your morning sounds lovely, as is your Haiku.
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Worth getting up at dawn 🙂
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Fair enough Ani, you have a right to a peaceful sunrise. You would have enjoyed one of those intrusive monsters going down in the water of our bay recently.
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Only if I could hav caught it would I have enjoyed it 😉 Much love, Ani xxx
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By the sound of things, you were well-compensated for your untimely awakening. I absolutely love the early morning. It’s the best time of the day in my opinion. 🙂
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I love it too… though this morning, I may have to go back to sleep 😉
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When we lived just outside of town, we had a lot of these, and I never did decide if I liked them or not, all that heavy breathing noise they make as they fire up!
Hope you are on the mend, Sue!
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I like the hot air balloons myself… Ani doesn’t. I think she sees them as being akin to dragons… and that means she has to defend me.
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Bless!
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Glad you’re better Sue. 🙂
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Getting there 🙂
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🙂
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Sounds beautiful and peaceful, that is until the balloon showed up. Wren goes bonkers over anything invading her air space, too. Even crows!
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We get whole clouds of crows and jackdaws daily… Ani now chooses to ignore those unless they land 😉
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