A Casual Observation

I do enjoy the thought of a day off.  As said before it is not that I do nothing, but I do not make appointments.  I really feel it is a day when I can do stuff that needs doing around the home.  Or sleep - which I have done a number of times before.
Today is that day.  I have a few things in mind to do.  I am hoping the inspiration hits.  Though often I know something needs doing and I set a time length to the activity.  That normally works.  I may go over or under the time I have set, but I find getting started the hardest part.  Once started I often want to take it further.
Yesterday I was sitting waiting for someone to come by who was colleting me for an event I was going to that night.  I saw a cockatoo in our tree.  Merril mostly goes and gets it some seed (she is visiting her mum right now).  So that is what I did.
Sure enough, that is what it was waiting for.  It came down and had a feed.
I actually love the eyes of those birds.  They are big and beautiful birds but seem to have a nice nature too.  If the eyes are anything to go by that is not surprising.
So I have fed the birds and the fish this morning.  It is sort of a ritual.  The birds know it is feeding time and wait around.  I call them our “fly in, fly out” birds.  We recently had a tradesman come early and he commented on the number of birds present.  We like it and others do too.
Right now we were to be on a cruise.  It did not happen.  We are disappointed but as is my custom I look for the good.  It is not always immediately obvious, but it is always there when I look.
This time we have had a resolution to an issue.  Merril had a stent put in last week.  It had been incredibly disconcerting for me to hold her hand and find it was really cold on a warm day.  Now we know and have dealt with why.
So today is a day off.  What’s in store is an unknown.  I have plans but they are casual plans.