The neverending grace of nature

A mini-epilogue I forgot to mention to our weekend with the Aussies - on Tuesday, they came down to our apartment because they had never seen it, and also because they wanted to see how the new furniture (formerly my grandparents') fit into our place. Reviews were strongly positive. In order to put all of this furniture to its full use, we had dinner - I grilled up some burgers and dogs. And while communing with nature as its meat sizzled on the fire, I watched the squirrels scurrying around in the huge oak tree next to our house...one of which slipped off the branch it was spying on me from, fell twisting to the ground with a distinct THUD, and went scampering back up the tree as fast as its little claws would carry it.