I slept hot and woke up early this morning.
It doesn't happen too often, but when I can't sleep and get up early, I think about Aldo Leopold's habit of making a pot of coffee and stepping out on the porch with his notebook in hand. He would sit and drink his morning joe while documenting which birds woke first and where they claimed their territory for the day.
Instead of paying respects to our feathered freinds as Leopold did, I will likely trudge to my office and do some paperwork for the farm. But if I get it done in time, I will take a few minutes to put a coat of lacquer on some arrows and do my morning blank bale practice. The birds will still be singing their approval of the morning and I can take in a bit of their avian gossip before heading off for morning chores.
I am already dreaming of cool fall days and crispy leaves.
I watch birds, I feed birds, I can identify some them individually. We have ruby throats come through here and do not stay, but for two years in a row we have a nester in out neighborhood. I worry how the nest survived the recent wind storm. If A Sand Couty Almanac was required reading for school kids, how many would not grow up to be 'woke' idiots?
Hey Deno! Glad you stopped by, it can get pretty lonely around here. It's gonna be another early morning... Been planting blueberries before it gets hot.
Yessir....a great way to get the day rollin'.
Deno
I like to sit outside late at night with a cup of organic tea, sweetened a little with basswood honey and listen to the night hawks. I love the wush sound of their air breakes when they pull out of a long dive. They are not diving for a bug when they do that. i believe they do that because they can do that. If I could do a long dive, pull on the wing cupping air breaks like them, you have to come up there to stop me. It seems today archery has been taken over by score keepers, everything is all about scores, you don't know if you are worthy or of the body if you not keeping score. I have read 'A Sand County Almanac' nemerous times. It looks to me that many folks these days tie archery closer to sports that they see on TV than to an introspective connection to nature.
I like this time of year because the mornings are still a bit cool, the birds are singing like crazy, and the sun is up by 5:30 so I can do my blank bale practice before the day starts. Getting a little archery practice in before chores almost always makes the day better.
I hope you got that coffee and cool morning Babe003!
Steve, a coffee and a cool morning is just what I need right now.
Sounds perfect.
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