9:40 am
    It is only 9:30 and I am already exhausted. On the other hand, it is already 9:30 and I have hardly gotten anywhere along the road that must be traversed today. Woa, is that some metaphor or what? I have made 2 important phone calls, done my stretches, and checked email (twice). Funny how often one can check email…. I have not yet fed buns, or mediated, or eaten breakfast and I am starving.
    I woke up at around 5:30 and then could not get back to sleep (hot flashes and anxiety don’t help). The anxiety was mostly due to worrying about our sketchy 350 event for which we had a meeting last night. I somehow ended up running the meeting, and in spite of that I am not thrilled with the outcome. We ended up deciding to do this Puffers Pond clean-up along with informational booths. It was only when the pond idea started getting tossed about that some sort of excitement started to be generated, and in retrospect I should have just gone with it. I personally don’t like the idea for a bunch of reasons ( 1. it is a bit of a stretch to connect it directly with global warming – maybe the lower water which has resulted in trees falling into the pond is due to actual climate changes and is an indication of future events, but maybe not.  2. We must first get permission to do this clean-up, maybe not a simple thing and 3. It is a remediation action, not a preventative action, if that makes sense) but  it seems like an idea that the group was able to get behind, and I put a bit of a wrench in the swelling enthusiasm by bringing up my issues. Anyway, the idea now is to do the clean-up AND the info booths. And I think it is going to be way too much. And I tried to get commitments for jobs to be done, but after realized that we forgot some crucial ones, like who is going to be in charge of the clean-up itself – getting tools, finding out what needs to be done and how…… I mean if we are talking  chain saws to cut up logs, well that is not something that a bunch of old ladies (which is, after all, most of what comes to these meetings) is going to do.
    Enough. As for today, I MUST MUST MUST get some stuff cleaned up. I have the entire back deck covered with dyeing stuff. There is still a good bit of residual dye in a lot of the pots, and I want to exhaust that, so I guess I’ll set the stove and the solar dyer back up and see if I can exhaust it all before I finally put it all away. Then there is the kitchen. It is in pretty bad shape. So tidying is on the books for today. That’s ok, I’ll put on the radio and get to it. Maybe I’ll even wash plastic bags…. Of course there is also lots of laundry awaiting attention, too.
    Enough enough enough, time for action…..
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