October 13, 2015

Ever Tried To Catch A Greased Weasel?

Because that's pretty much what it's like trying to pin down sentences in my brain anymore.  Little buggers are elusive...

I know my last post was not entirely upbeat.

But a life is always far more complicated to actually DO than it may appear.


It could appear that my life is its own paradise. And there are many good things:
  • The farm is beautiful in every kind of light.
  • Fall field work, aside from the 4-hour drive to get to the watershed, is usually a lovely change from the heat-stroke ridden July trips.
  • Two chestnut faces greet me twice a day, each voice unique.
But memories can be haunting.


But I’m doing my best to break everything into 5-minute increments.  My brain can just about DO 5 minutes.  And then I can check something, however small, off the list.


Well, my knee surgeon told me in 2012 I'm not allowed to run.  But I have a match in my hand (which means I’m probably burning my fingers, heh), though it flickers.  And I'm walking as fast as I can.

And damn it, I'm going to at least see what the walls of the tunnel are made out of.  And then my horses & I are going to gallop out into blazing sunlight.

At which point we’ll probably trip & throw a shoe, but hey, someone’s got to provide comic relief!

10 comments:

  1. HUGS FOR YOU! You're a tough cookie and I'm sure you can get through whatever's happening in your life right now. <3 Saying a little prayer for ya this morning!

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    1. Thanks! This week's field work...and next week...and the next week...is an exhausting, but good distraction. Aminals!!

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  2. BBIAB--trying to pin down greased weasel.

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    1. Ok, I'm admitting I had to Urban Dictionary that (yes, I just made that a verb) -- and am now back to thank you for the LOL! ;)

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  3. Weasels and words are tricky things. Take your time and be good to yourself. Five minutes at a time is good.

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    1. Just like hobbits...tricksy, always tricksy. Thank your for the good wishes, five minutes is working out to be fairly feasible -- what's harder is training the people around to not bother to ask questions about anything that is happening more than 5 minutes from now, heh.

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  4. Damn squeaky weasels always get the grease...

    I'm slogging through the trying-to-get-a-mortgage tunnel as we speak, so I hear you on the five minute thing - that's about the extent of my attention span these days. Sending ♡♡♡ from the coast. :D

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    1. Nice, I see what you did there... You have my mortgage empathy. Since I got my first one in 2007 pre-market crash, it was so easy, I think I signed ~3 sheet of paper. The farm....was War & Peace with some Dostoyevsky added on after the OED. I believe I was handed at least one national forest... O.o

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