Country Moments in the City

If you know anything about us, you know that we want so badly to live in the country. It has been a burning desire of ours for quite awhile.

Today, the Lord gave us a little bit of the country in the city. While I sat at my desk, Jordan, Ian and I had the opportunity to sit here and watch a little bird (I don't know what kind)hop along the railing of our back porch. The bird had a piece of bark in it's beak. I'm assuming it was off to build, enlarge, or repair it's nest. It paused several times to give us a better look at him.

This evening as we came downstairs after we gave the little two baths, Jordan stopped and stared out our front door. She motioned us over and we all stood there inside the door as a rabbit gave himself a bath in our front yard. We watched it as it continuously licked it's front feet and then rubbed them over various parts of it's head, the backs of it's ears, it's face. It proceeded on to clean it's back feet. It almost looked like it was eating the dirt off of them. It scrubbed it's tummy in the same manner. We stood there for probably ten minutes before Shannen leaned on the door a little too quickly and heavily and it became aware we were watching it. It hopped off not long after.

Maybe these seem like such little things, but for us, who so want to be in the country, they were both real blessings.