Apocalyptic Homesteading (Day 570)

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Hello Everyone!

The shed snake skin dog story, Inadvertent napping, A wee bit of introspection & A late day hike!

This morning I awoke several times before dawn but did not have the motivation to get up so I kept going back to sleep until I could see the first hints of daylight out the window. Well, I say it was a motivational issue but really I was having a rather involving dream and was not feeling all that inclined for it to end.

As far as the dream goes I have no idea what it was now even though I have been trying to recall what the heck was going on in it ever since waking up all the way and starting my morning routines. Perhaps a sliver of memory will emerge eventually and I can use it to unravel more of it but as of now I am just drawing a total blank in regards to what I was dreaming.

That storm I was watching pretty much missed us entirely but I was happy to see that it did rain at some point during the evening. It assuredly was not the downpour that I was hoping for but at least it knocked the dust down and of course watered the vegetation so no complaints there.

I was way too fatigued to write about it last night but I did make a mental note to describe the scene of the dogs finding that snakeskin shed inside the dog yard late yesterday afternoon. As some of you may recall one of my dogs got snakebit a few times when she was a puppy and has always been super wary of them ever since.

Anyway, when a different dog got too close to the skin she did something that I had never seen her do before. She put herself between the skin and the other dog and began barking at him in a way that could only mean: Stay back it is dangerous!

She continued that behavior for several moments until the other dog backed away and as cute (and heartwarming) as it was to witness she had also put herself directly in harms way to do so and had turned her back on the skin entirely. In short I guess her concern for the other dog far outweighed her usual caution of not getting too close to the snakes.

If she was a human I would say it was a fine example of someone 'choosing love over fear' but her being a dog I do not know exactly what to call it. As a side note it was also pretty wacky seeing her bark and growl like that given just how mellow of a dog she generally is and not all that prone to bossing the other dogs around or making much fuss at all for that matter.

Okay, it is now much later in the day but still before sunset and all in all it was not a super productive day or anything because I wound up spending a good bit of it napping. I had not intended to do so much napping but I got to feeling really groggy this afternoon and zonked out for nearly five hours straight!

Lately that has happened several times and a few of them not wholly on purpose like today's 'napisode' where I was just laying down for a minute and then immediately fell fast asleep. I could understand doing so if I had been working a lot or not getting enough rest but the thing is it seems to happen on the days that I got plenty of rest the night before so who knows!

Ever since I took that recent break from social media and the news I have had a heck of a time mustering enough desire to pay attention to it all again and almost without fail anytime that I do 'pay attention' I just feel mentally exhausted afterwards. To some degree I am still staying rather tuned out to all that stuff but mainly that is because my own well-being has to take precedent over what is going on in the world.

As selfish as that may sound there is no damn point in destroying my little peace of mind with a bunch of stress and anxiety over things that I am utterly powerless to do a damned thing about. I would also just rather focus on solving my own problems at this point in things because hey it is not like I do not have plenty of them that need my attention.

Do not get me wrong here because there are plenty of things going on that are well worth paying attention to. At some point a while back I had the realization that perhaps by focusing on all that stuff I was simply avoiding focusing on my own problems which of course made me re-examine things.

Although I could never definitively determine if 'side-stepping my own problems' is what was going on... I decided to err on the side of caution and embrace the idea just to see where it would lead me. Suffice it to say that ever since then I have had some incredibly candid conversations with myself and especially in regards to what I really want in life and of course that which I do not want so go figure!

All in all my 'big strategy' for the times ahead is to just keep plodding along much like I have for the last many years because it is not like food shortages or having minimal (or no) finances is all that alien to me in the first place. Of course those two things will play hell on most folks lives and there will undoubtedly be a rise in bad behavior as a response and that is the part that I find the most disconcerting and worrisome.

Alright, I just got back from hiking around a bit and I was right about that rain not being enough because everything is back to being bone dry outside again. Which means I may well need to water the plants in the garden again and alas postpone my plans for burning stuff until the conditions become favorable to do so.

I hope that everyone is doing well and has a nice day/night.

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It was a really pretty day!

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That is awesome that the dog was keeping the other one away from the snakeskin.
I have the same thing going on with naps, I sit down and the next thing I know, it is 3 hours later. When I wake, it takes me a while to get my eyes to open.

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