Yesterday was Cephas’ birthday, March 25 and he hit the big 50. He was deserving some R & R from the highway and the cramped van to be able to relax. We enjoyed some good movies and a late showing of the X-files. I stayed up most of the night working on our website at Mountain Spirit Productions and our blog at Mountain Spirit Productions. I had to remove and reinstall the domain blog wordpress software to get the blog activated after a three month glitch that we could not resolve. It still has the primitive wordpress software but we’ll remedy that in the near future. Anyway, the point is that we had a good time sharing time together and relaxing in the warm dry motel room.
Our van roof leaks around the high rise vent so staying dry was important to us. The rain pours in right onto the bed that is not exactly as nice as a real waterbed, if you know what I mean. Since we didn’t sleep, we did the most logical thing, napped till checkout time neared, grabbed a shower and coffee, then drove a mile to the nearest Starbucks where we slept 3 1/2 hours. I bought a delicious coffee with a shot and we headed west on Highway 190, our destination being Abilene then New Mexico. There is some other pressing business in Texas that will have to wait till the return trip, as we’re on a fast turning calendar page.
The storms that I mentioned earlier really caused some damage around parts of Texas which we were very fortunate to escape. High winds up to 90 miles per hour took out windows in buildings and cars so that highway and city crews in certain cities had to clean broken glass from the streets. I’m so thankful to God that we missed the 90 mile an hour winds and the golf ball sized hail. That certainly would’ve damaged the top to our van, which is like a type of plastic. Maybe we were in tune with the spirit. I’d like to believe that we were. In any case, we were graciously spared.
Tonight, we pulled into a Walmart in Brownwood to be greeted by hundreds of birds getting ready to nest in the trees that border the parking lot perimeter. Darkness was settling in so the birds were flocking in the trees making them appear as if they are bearing loads of large fruits. Their musical chatter has been entertaining us since we arrived. Just in the past five minutes they have calmed and quieted. I take it they’re settling in for a night’s rest, and so shall we be in a little while.
Cephas was so enamored by the birds that he took out our camera and made attempts to capture hundreds of birds flocking from tree to tree. It was amusing for awhile just watching the cat tease the birds as it walked from tree to tree just watching and waiting for just one bird to get careless and land. It was too dark for the photos but we tried. Maybe photo shop will yield a magical image capture that we cannot see with the naked eye.
It’s 12:40 am and true to my name, I remain
The Midnight Writer
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