Unexpected Company

This morning we woke to chilly temperatures, blue skies and sunshine. When I got to the office, my boss had both the front and back doors to the house open and we had a nice breeze blowing through and could hear all the birds singing in the trees.

I was just working away at my computer when all of a sudden I heard the biggest racket behind me. I knew my boss was in his office in back, so I thought maybe someone had come in the front door without me seeing them. I turned around in my chair and there was this poor little sparrow flying willy nilly all through the office.

It was fluttering from room to room, trying to find its way back outside. Through the kitchen, into the file room, back into my bosses office, across the foyer and into my office, up the stairs and back down again that poor little bird flew! It would land on the ceiling fan for a brief rest, then swoop back down as if it was going to land in my hair. I was ducking and shooing and flaying my arms to try and steer it back outside, but it just kept on flying around the office.

Finally, it exhausted itself out and landed on a big set of house plans and my boss scooped it up and let it out the back door. Poor little thing. Curiosity got the best of it and it just had to fly in and see what we were doing, I guess.

Here I would rather be enjoying the beautiful outdoors, and it apparently wanted to be indoors for a change. I imagine it had quite the story to tell once it finally regained its strength and flew back to its family. Too bad we couldn't have traded places for the day. Oh well, back to work. . .