Nope. Tomorrow morning will be devoted to waking up, turning over, and going back to sleep again, just as often as I can manage it. Then I've got geraniums to re-pot, and a garden to re-visit. As long as the weather holds.
The forecast is for moderate temperatures and maybe some cloud, but tonight, up here on the 7th floor, the canopy's showing nautical ambitions, and may have me in mid-Atlantic by morning - oh - and that was lightning. Forked, horizontal, and slightly closer to my right elbow than I'd like. I hope it doesn't rain.
Inspired by an Iranian friend's nostalgic memories of summer nights in Shiraz, when the whole family used to sleep up on the roof under the stars, I've been sleeping on the terrace since the middle of June. (Actually, on a sofabed on the terrace. Intrepid I ain't.) (..............and that was more lightning. No thunder though.) I love it. Of course, living above one of Madrid's most happening plazas can make it a little difficult to get to sleep,
especially when some really good buskers show up at 1.30 a.m. 
But if they're that good, you might as well get up and hang over the wall (This also goes for firework displays.). And if they aren't, well that's why we have earplugs.
And in the meantime, you can enjoy the cool nights, the wild moons,
even the occasional eclipse (last Saturday, but no batteries left for the camera).
At night, there are little black bats and big white moths. In the morning, there's a sky full of squeaking swallows (or there used to be, for months - not anymore, at least since mid-July).
And who needs an alarm clock, when you've got the sun rise?
Climbing back into bed with a cup of tea was never so satisfying.
I hope it doesn't rain tonight.
3 comments:
Oh, sweetie - I hope it didn't!
Have a restful weekend.
If I had a bed in that location, I wouldn't get up at all!
Lucky you! I think if I had a perch in that location, I also wouldn't want to get up in a hurry.
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