Welcome to my brain. It’s messy. It’s interesting. And it’s all connected if you stick around long enough. "Believe Nothing: no matter who said, even if I have said it, except it agree with your own reason and common sense. Siddhartha Guatamo, the Buddha.

motivation=katputski

I DID make the effort and loaded BlueJean onto the racks of Buffalo.  Right along side Lyssa.   Reason for BJ: they tore that lowhead dam out and I would like to check out the river again. 

Sadly, that was about as far as my kayaking made it today.   The load in at the river was a flat muddy mess and dangerous as all get out.   Its about 30 yards of boatramp above the old dam area, and it was slick as snot.   SO I went to the lake,,,

and by that point, I was pretty much at the ‘meh’ stage of the day.   I DID get a zen moment watching water droplets fall out of the trees hitting that mirrorlike surface.    The ripples spreading out, intermingling, interacting,,,    I probably spent 45 minutes just zoning out on that.   Very peaceful.    

But, the boats are still loaded and I still have the morrow left of the weekend.  Simple start for laundry, all else is done or on hold for drier weather.   And I have two boats to fill whatever I decide to do:   Rivers or lakes.  

part of my lack of motivation is, I REALLY WANNA GO CAMPIN’.    and I keep making excuses as to why I am not going camping.    And one of those excuses is a pupper.   I wanna take him with, but he doesn’t do that water thing yet.  He definitely doesn’t do kayaks at all.   I haven’t found a canoe in nice enough shape, in my price range, within reasonable distance, YET.   I may be missing my window on training him for boat life,,,    Maybe not.  He’s a good boy and adapts pretty quickly to new situations.    Still, I need to get him to the lake or river and coach him on swimming.    He has no problems diving into mud puddles, IF its hot.     Maybe instead of kayaking tomorrow, I load HIM up and teach the boy that water is his buddy, not an enemy.

will see.

Lets face it.  This time of year, I am pretty much on autopilot and the main focus is getting the bills knocked down and savings built up for the winter time slow downs.  The weeks fly by and the weekends fly by faster.    Dio gets a little older and nothing seems to change during these periods.   Except those figures on my debts: DOWNWARD, and thats a goodness thing.I

I believe they call that LIFE,,, dunno, sure doesn’t seem like ‘living’ to me, more like “Mere existance”.  

Better drop that before I start getting all meloncholy on ya,,,

more tomorrow 

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2 responses

  1. Spud's avatar
    Spud

    In the grand scheme of life in general. Don’t we all just exist ?

    In the end of it all…nope.

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    August 24, 2025 at 7:34 am

  2. Fred Lewers's avatar
    Fred Lewers

    Life is a series of small steps. Minutes become hours. Hours become days and days somehow become last year… But make each step count. We (wife and I) got our land from my mother a little more than 5 years ago. I was really feeling overwhelmed by what I thought was the lack of progress. A retired military lifer and University professor came by to get some fatwood for a class he was teaching and at the end of the brief conversation he said that he was kinda jealous of me. Debt free and retired (on a shoestring budget) in my mid fifties, a small homestead built in 4 years completely debt free.
    And all I did was try to be kind of productive each day. Some days I would go goof off if my buddy was in town.
    But just trying to make my position a little better each day made the difference.
    Where are you at compared to five years ago? Are you in a better position physically and mentally? If so then keep on keeping on. What are you supposed to be doing today? Sometimes just being present and maintaining what you’ve accomplished is a victory.

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    August 24, 2025 at 12:14 pm