There is nothing like spring; the sun shining on the new green leaves, the flowers poking their head through the dirt, it somehow makes the world look fresher and brighter. I opened the patio doors and walked outside to enjoy the day, but as I turned to go inside something darted in ahead of me: the first fly of the year. This guy was large and the fact that he had been hibernating recently didn’t seem to be slowing him down one bit. When I said he was big, I mean he was huge, like the size of a WWII bomber. I grabbed the spray and chased him around the house, wondering which of us was going to have a heart attack first. Finally, he darted into the bathroom and I slammed the door on him before heading to the laundry room where the fly-swat was hanging in a small broom closet.
Let me pause here to say that as a child, I discovered I was horrible at sports. You see, I have a problem with depth perception. My brothers were eight and ten years older than I so mother would not let them beat me up, but my older brother wisely devised a way of getting even when I irritated him. He would offer to play catch and since I couldn’t catch the ball, he could hurl it at me and be certain to hit me with it. Then, he would tell Mother that he was just trying to play ball with me. It wasn’t his fault that I got hit, but back to the fly.
At first I couldn’t find him and I got to wondering if he had somehow gotten out as I slammed the door. I looked in the shower, but still no fly. Then I spotted him on the wall just under the light fixture. Now if he had been flying I probably would have chased him another fifteen minutes, but there he was, trying to get warm. All in all, it wasn’t even a fair fight.
The world is certainly a beautiful place if you just stop and look. New life at every turn and the water running in all the streams. There is nothing more breathtaking than an unexpected waterfall or a quiet, shady glade. There is just one fly in the ointment, B U G S!
Find a quite spot and curl up with a good book, and maybe some bug spray if you decide to do it outside!
Happy reading, Linda