City Kid

The yard felt different this weekend

"alive"

Not in the growth sense

But a knowing

Is that even possible?

As we planted four new trees

It felt like the garden watched

Curious of the newcomers

And I became a klutz

Taking a backwards dive off the truck

And landing perfectly nestled in the middle of a bush

Falling into a hole

Tripping over a wood pile

 And with my son's first sleep over

I joined the night time game of hide-n-seek

Not letting on that the darkness behind the trees

Really creeps me out

And with chills racing up my back I hid within that darkness

Praying that the kids find me quick

And hearing the soft thumps of trotting footsteps 

in the soft ground behind me 

I raced out onto the lawn laughing 

only to run straight into the boys

relieved that they had found me

until my son asked why I had come out of hiding

and then I realized

I was being chased by a peacock
(I think)
(I hope)

I am such a city kid
~  ~  ~

I say peacock because the next morning when hubby went to check on the newly planted trees, a peacock popped out from beneath one and scared the *#/! out of him