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Tuesday, October 4th, 2016 03:18 pm
I'm sitting on my front porch. It just occurred to me that i won't see such a lovely blue sky until Sunday, at the earliest. No reason to waste such loveliness and marvelously comfortable temperatures. I finished mowing the yard yesterday: the growth rate has slowed down so that the grass left unmown from the week before could be mown and it all looks even. I think i hear mowing in the distance: others are probably trying to take advantage of these dry days.

I'm experiencing some various states that are less than productive. I think that part of it is hormonal, and i can just trust that it will pass. Part of it is the need to "self direct" at work. I feel like i'm juggling vaseline coated river rocks. When they are all on the ground around my feet, i'm not very excited about picking them up and trying again.

I had planned to go on a road trip with my folks this coming Friday. There's a meeting on Thursday i can't move, so we've decided to postpone the trip to the Peaks of Otter area until the following Friday. Wise, i'm sure. Meanwhile, other storm prompted plans are made: we will attempt to crank the generator, get gas, and do our Thursday night grocery run a day earlier (to avoid the milk, bread, and battery crowd).

I'm not sure what i want to read in news about Hurricane Matthew in Haiti. I hold the people of the islands in the hurricane's path in my heart, and feel what feeble response i can make, i should make via https://www.facebook.com/If-Pigs-Could-Fly-Haiti-408179022563012/ -- i know Randy Mont-Reynaud and her work in Haiti.

Now i hear a chain saw. I'm tempted to think that storm preparation, too. I noticed a parade of peculiar road work machines go by: i hear some odd high hum that i think is associated with one of the machines.
Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 11:45 am (UTC)
the "juggling Vaseline-coated river rocks" is such a great metaphor. And yeah, I've had that "don't want to pick them up and try again" feeling often.

Best wishes with surviving the storm (maybe it will blow out to sea, we can hope).