SOLSC '25 Day Five: Blue skies and gray possum

I am participating in The Two Writing Teachers' Slice of Life Story Challenge, writing every day during the month of March.  My theme this year is "Outdoors".

Just like that, our skies were blue today, as if the greige of yesterday never happened.

I enjoyed some time on the front porch after leaving work before four-thirty (gasp!).  It was nice to sit in the sunlight, listening to the birds in the distance and people-watching.  I felt a twinge of guilt as those with sneakered feet took their exercise habits a bit more seriously than I obviously do, sitting on my patukus and sipping strawberry prosecco.  (It's my birthday, so I did not feel any guilt over the strawberry prosecco, mind you.)

Unfortunately, my allergy meds starting waning, breathing became a bit more like coughing, and I headed indoors.  Not much later we had a visitor in our backyard, nosing about the leftover birdseed under the feeder.  I caught some pictures through the kitchen window; I was not about to play hostess with the mostest and greet him (her?) in person.  I tend to leave wild things with sharp teeth alone.

I am glad we still see the occasional wild animal in our very suburban backyard.  They are wonderful reminders that we are the latecomers to this land that belonged to them long before the foundation to our home was ever laid.  We are just four brick walls and a roof away from living outdoors.