On Sunday night, we were driving home from Connecticut when we saw a very small bird sort of hop-wobbling across the center of the road, maybe with a broken wing, occasionally disappearing for a moment under a passing car.

Yet another "this kind of thing doesn't happen to city girls" moment (up there with the turtle in the backyard, the trees that come crashing down during rainstorms, and oh my god the bugs). Or...if it did happen it'd be a pigeon, not an adorable, tiny fluffball with beautiful black-and-blue feathers. I had a few birds as pets when I was a kid, so I more or less know how to pick up a baby, and so that's what I did: scooped it out of the road and brought it back to our car. Then we sat there with it for a minute, trying to figure out what to do.

We had no idea.

To me it looked like its wings had been clipped, and it was a really gorgeous bird: I worried that it was someone's pet - a parakeet, maybe, or a budgie? - that had gotten out. Or maybe it was a baby who'd been abandoned by its parents. Or maybe it was hurt and would have ended up just sitting there in the center of the road until a car made a direct hit; I didn't know.

That I have a spider bite on my arm the size of a walnut, and am totally dealing with it like a grown-up, by which I mean only Googling "black widow spider bite" once (side note: do not ever Google "black widow spider bite").

In recent days I have also:

1) Walked through a web with the circumference of Texas and not freaked out (very much);

2) Handily dispatched a very large and unidentifiable creature that I found sitting on the guest bed in our attic; and

I spent yesterday fishing in Sheepshead Bay with Dad and taking way too many pictures of seagulls. I caught exactly the number of fish that you think I did.

Over on The Nest, my alternative uses for a simple stemless wine glass.

I don't usually keep or use miniature product samples - they feel like clutter to me - but liked the Archive Rosehip & Lavender Calming Body Lotion I found in my hotel room in Cape Cod so much that I've been carrying it everywhere in my purse, and now need to replace it with a full-size bottle.