Falling

[greenstorm]

Two nights up at 3am chasing off a bear; two nights ago with bear spray and last night the dogs just needed the reassurance of my presence to chase him off, and he stayed out of my line of sight. I guess this one learns.

I'm falling into what I think of as my natural sleep cycle: up earlier, tired by 8:30 or 9pm. This is the cycle where I pretty much never got to see friends when I lived in the city. It's pretty much keeping me from talking to Josh since he doesn't get home from work until fairly late, but it's helping my head feel clearer.

Last night didn't frost but tonight totally will. Fieldwork was cancelled due to high winds so I'm going to pull green tomatoes tonight; I pulled some last night (silvery fir tree, KARMA miracle, some katja) but there are a ton left. Pulling them and keeping them labelled is the challenging part. It would be good to know flavours, ripening times, and keeping times. I need to remember to pull my exserted orange/green cherry cross in to ripen too.

My mind is quiet finally. It's been awhile. I also am so busy; there's basically no free time in my near future.

I have some visitors booked for November, Josh and another set of folks. Mom may come up in Oct or very late Sept.

Comments

[yarrowkat]

living on your body's natural sleep cycle makes such a difference.

at least the frost waited till mid-Sept? august was just too too soon! it's still in the high 90s every day here and frost feels like a faint memory, though we'd all really love the heat to break already.

[greenstorm]

The weirdest part is, my body just wasn't doing it for awhile. I wasn't being artifically held into a different sleep schedule.

I'm glad you're finding ways to get more days on your own schedule.

Aug did feel too soon.