More detachment, less anxiety and the continued joy of limbo

[Phoebe]

Hi there, Blu!! You flatter me. I'm just a local kid that likes to know what's around me.

You know, despite my use of the term funny farm, I had forgotten all about the movie! It's in my Netflix cue at position #3, but I'm watching so few movies these days that I haven't gotten there yet. I watched more more when H was around. Now with my evening commute to my sleeping quarters, I'm not watching more than one every couple weeks.

Yeah, I can ID a lot of my local birds by sound, and all of the ones that regularly hang around my house. It's really nice to be walking around and to know what's overhead, even if I can't see them. I know the local frog and toad calls, too. That's probably a bit more unusual, but there are only something like 5 or 6 species locally, so it's really not much. I just like to know what's around me. I like to know the trees, too, but they're usually silent. With trees I like the challenge of identifying them by their bark, rather than looking at the leaves, so I can walk down a trail and have a feel for the whole picture. I'm a forest kid, and I grew up prowling the woods. Being outside is very healing for me, so the more I'm out, the better.

S tooday I'm off to do more cleanup work. While brush-hogging I hit a bundle of barbed wire yesterday that was lurking in the brush. It's the hazard of an old farm. They used to just chuck stuff everywhere. Luckily it didn't wind around the blades, but it did fly into a lot of pieces. And it made a lot of SPARKS!!! I got all the big pieces of wire yesterday, but today i need to go back with a magnet sweeper and finish the job. Livestock, if it ever roams this property again, has a bad habit of ingesting pieces of metal, and you can imagine that's not a good thing.

It's always something, right? I also found a tire on a rim and a separate tire rim, and some other metal, but that was at least easy to pick up.

I am definitely making this place my own, H or no H. This land is my home, even if the house I reside in is as far from my dream home as possible. That said, it's dry and warm, and I don't have a mortgage. Priceless.

So, I hope that everyone has a good day.