BATCHIN' IT - DAY 8

RON'S OFF TO MINNESOTA!

A DAILY JOURNAL

FRIDAY, DAY 8

I got up at 

and went out for an early run.  YIKES!  After two pickups with men in camo passed me and a group of men on quads in camo appeared ahead of me, I asked one of them if it was archery season...sure enough, opening day for deer archery season. 

 Now overall, it's not as dangerous to be out for archery seasons as it is for rifle seasons, but opening day of anything needs a bit of consideration.  Like running later in the day.  And/or wearing something orange.  And/or running somewhere else.  And/or not running at all.   I'll be taking all of these under consideration for the rest of the weekend.

Maggie's shoulder injury is greatly improved, so I took her on the run today.  My routine is to always have one of the dogs leashed (both off leash = TROUBLE).  Usually I keep Maggie leashed for the first half, then trade off at my turn-around point.  I chose to keep Maggie leashed the whole way to avoid any crazy-mad dashes after squirrels and such that might cause a re-injury.  She looks good.

The rest of the day consisted of the Usual Chores-watering, bird feeding & cage cleaning, minor housework, dog training.  Music of course, both violin and flute.  Flute is coming along nicely, with tone returning first in the middle to high registers.  Low register will take some attention, and I'll start working with that tomorrow.  The other main project I'm currently working on is

I have certain chores that I do on a periodic cycle - and believe me it's a generous period.  The cycle is over at the end of August and though I could have done these chores any time, I put them off.  So now I've got myself in a self-imposed box to get them done.  I've read and heard many times that one can resist routine activities they may dislike-washing dishes, housework, etc.  Or they can accept them and turn them into a form of meditation.  I'm still well in the resistance stage.  I'm doing a certain amount every day, and made excellent progress today.  In fact, I'll be able to finish entirely tomorrow, and won't that be a celebration!

I did set a 5:00 deadline to be finished for the day, as the resistance mentality takes a lot of effort and makes tasks feel like work.  The evening dog walk, a thorough-enough read of Time and National Geographic magazines, dinner, a Netflix movie and a bit of the current novel wrapped up the day.

Bedtime: