Set 3 Part B

I decided to go home and sit in our sun room at around two in the afternoon. The sun was coming into the room and everything was warm and relaxing. At first that was all I could focus on, because I was getting drowsy. I shook myself awake and cracked open a window, letting the cold air take over the room. At first I didn’t really notice anything special going on. My cat was in the other room scratching on her post, and the dog was whining because he wanted to be in the room with me. A few minutes went by before I realized that I could actually hear a lot of birds singing outside. This winter has been so strange it was nice to hear the sound of birds, a sound I associate with spring.

What I really started to notice more than sounds was the smells. Everyone was out of town for the weekend so I had the house to myself, and I hadn’t really done anything but eat fast food. Outside I could smell that one of my neighbors was using their wood fireplace, and it smelled so refreshing. Next thing I really noticed was that there were more sounds of people outside. I could hear a neighbor walking their dog in the neighborhood behind us, and everything was just really calm. Nothing was too hasty and it felt really nice to just relax and focus on what was going on around me. I would normally have gone out and sat in the woods for an assignment like this, but the weather has been so cold that I settled for the sun room. Being able to sit in my own house and still feel connected to what was going on outside and around me was amazing.

Another thing that really stood out was a ridiculously loud running sound about 37 minutes into the assignment. I couldn’t figure out what was running all over the woods in our backyard until I saw two deer sprint out onto the yard. Nothing seemed to be chasing them, but I could hear a dog barking in the yard diagonal to mine. Their dog has a tendency to bark for hours, so it hadn’t seemed like an odd sound to me at the time. Now there were too overexcited deer running around the yard and my own dog was freaking out. Being around 120 pounds this was a little annoying. I didn’t do anything though, just observed what was going on, and a few minutes later the deer had left and everything went back to peaceful relaxation.