Detachment, anxiety and the end of limbo 2

[Phoebe]

Grl. you are wonderful! If you keep on stepping out of that comfort zone it gives me courage to keep doing so myself. Good on you!


(((((Dory Grl)))))

Hi to everyone this fine, way too hazy, hot, and humid day!! I am going to do something entirely dumb and go outside to work. I hiked with a guy that used to say, "If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough!" Well, I'm feeling both today.

I am going to take my tractor out onto my land and do some more work cleaning up an old farm dump. Every farm has them, usually on a hill, and mine has more than a few. It's all the usual stuff, bottles, both broken and intact, but without value, old metal cans, pieces of shoes... I'd guess the one I'm in is from the 70s, when people should have known better, but these folks apparently never cottoned to the idea of healing their land at any point in their tenure here.

I have found a couple neat old things in a couple other spots, just not at this one, beyond a sweet old salt shaker and the top part of a lamp that is probably brass and very art deco and that I may try to find a use for. It' quite handsome.

Last year I found a vaseline glass refrigerator bottle, probably from the 1920s, intact. I don't know if folks here know what vaseline glass is, but it is a strange light green glass, or sometimes yellow glass, that almost seems a bit unreal in color, and that was actually colored with uranium. It's usually regarded as harmless, and is certainly safe to have in your home and to use with food. You just don't want to wear it, so to speak. The cool things about vaseline glass is that it glows very strongly in UV light. I'mm utterly taken with the green pieces. Anyway, look up some images if you're curious. It is gorgeous, and I was pretty psyched to find some here on my property. Genuine history! Some jadeite also has uranium in it.

Anyway, I digress. I'm off to be dumb and tough.

I hope it's a good day for my fellow DBers. Go out and push yourself a bit today, be it physically, mentally, or whatever. Stretch a bit. Have some fun.

I'm going to push myself to sweat and heal some more of my land. I had a fully scheduled week, and it is a "rest" day today (from socializing).