A Saturday Reflection

Still trying to sell our house and we had our first ‘second showing’ today (cross your fingers folks!) We straightened up, hid any signs that this was actually a home people lived in and scurried out the door. With an hour to kill and the weather being absolutely beautiful for early November, our daughters asked if we could take Murphy to the dog park down the street. We obliged and spent 30 minutes watching our lab chase Dalmatians, golden retrievers and a general assortment of mutts. When Murphy started lying down for brief rests we knew he was ready to head home. A quick stop for some lunch fixings (soups and cheap microwave pizza – a favorite with the kids) and we returned home to a well-cleaned house (oh a rarity) and no obligations for the rest of the day.

Fed and full, the daughters retreated to watch TV and apparently style each other’s hair, while my wife and I, Murphy and the cats all headed to our bedroom. So I am getting some much-appreciated free time on the computer to read, blog and clean out my email while the wife and the pets snooze. I’m sitting here now with the window cracked and feeling a wonderful fall breeze, listening to my wife and my dog match each other’s breathing and then falling out of sync, both of them getting some well-needed rest, and thinking life is pretty good these days.