Often, my friendships have changed in different times in my life.  I am making new human friends.  Lately, I’ve noticed that I’m making new animal friends too.

I’ve always been an animal lover at heart.  I am not currently owned by any pets (we don’t own them, they own us!), so I suppose I have outdoor pets.  My hubby and I enjoy feeding the birds.  When I say “feeding the birds,” I’m also talking about the squirrels.  Everyone eats together and seems to get along pretty well.  It’s what people do in suburbia.  We don’t have much forrests in suburbia, so we have our backyards that are homes to much wildlife.

Sunday night, a big brown rabbit came by at dusk.  He was so cute and took some time to eat some sunflower seeds.  We also get a variety of birds, including cardinals.  I’ve also been seeing bluejays, chickadees, and other little birds.  I had to get out my Birds of Michigan field guide.  But, I also took out the book Animal-Speak by Ted Andrews.  This book talks about the symbolism of animals besides their biology.  It’s a true gem and brilliantly written.  I refer to it often to understand my animal friends’ messages for me.

My squirrel friends have always entertained me.  We get brown, grey, and black squirrels.  We have our own names for the squirrels.  Browns are called brownies.  Greys are grey-ies.  We call the black squirrels blackies (I had a childhood dog named Blackie who was so sweet so it honors him).  Occasionally, little red squirrels show up (I call them squeakies because of their squawking).

The past two weeks, however, I’ve had this same little brownie come to my doorwall.  I can tell by looking at his face and markings that it is my same friend.  He takes his front paws’ nails and knocks on the glass doorwall.  I was in the other room when this first happened.  I ran to the doorwall to see who was there and saw no one until of course, I looked down to see my friend.  He wanted food.  I gave him brazil nuts from Trader Joe’s recently and well, he enjoyed them quite a bit as did about 10 other squirrels (luckily, not all at once!).  My snacks are not that pricey.  I don’t know what has happened in our house.  We don’t plan on having kids, so maybe this is the Universe’s way of giving us children?  I know the Universe abhors a vacuum!  Ha ha ha–I like to apply the Universal laws whenever I can

My squirrel friend and I stay at a respectable distance from each other.  I open the doorwall and he knows not to be hand fed and he goes about 10 feet or more away.  I am a bit squirrely I guess myself.

As a result of these new animal friends, I tend to be on-line less often.  I also tend to do my work in the kitchen so I can watch my children.  I enjoy Nature very much.  I’m excited that Spring is almost here!  Thank goodness!  I know I have to tolerate some Spring Winter weather for a while though.  Yesterday, it was 31 F.  That is a bit cold for 2-3 days before Spring I think.  I long for the warm, sunny days when I can take walks, go running and biking outside, as well as do my writing and journaling in Nature.  Yep, I’m a Nature girl for sure.

Just some random thoughts about friendship, weather, and Nature…

Lots of love,

Lisa

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