Not what I expected

So I'm currently stretched out between two chairs in our back yard. Late morning is the perfect time to be back here because the sun isn't at its hottest, when its then thankfully hidden behind the mini forest we have beyond the fence. The little birds are chirping, the squirrels are doing their best to drive the dogs insane, and as usual, the birds of prey are soaring on the thermals above our neighborhood. Actually, maybe they're just vultures. Whatever kind of bird they are, they're pretty to watch flying overhead. Also, they're known within the neighborhood to swoop into yards and grab up the neighborhood snakes. Given the two cotton mouths we've killed in our yard this past year, it's just another reason why those big black birds circling overhead don't creep me out anymore :)

Anyway, what made me think to drag the computer out into this peaceful oasis and write is this: our elderly neighbors on the other side of the fence had been enjoying the peace as well and quietly murmuring until about five minutes ago when Michael Jackson's "Just beat it" came on loudly, clearly out of their sound system. Totally weird.