Lake Ozette

Yesterday's dry-run pre-pack of Green Hornet went quite well. Now I believe that we will be able to get everything (tents, sleeping bag, clothing, food, &c., plus us - wildwoosi, lightfoote, delerium3, & I - into 2 canoes and paddle 4.25 miles to Erickson's Bay to set up camp. That'll serve as this year's big Olympic Peninsula expedition for delerium3's b-day. (Last year I took her to the Hoh for her b-day for camping, hiking, kayaking, horseback-riding, beaching, &c. - joined by jormundgan for some of it.)

My remaining concern concerns the weather. It's still far cooler and wetter (and windier) than ideal. Luckily there's a plan B, just in case. It still involves camping and canoeing and hiking and beaching (and Sol Duc Hot Springs at the end), but decreases the chances of dunking. We'll leave to drive a week from today (Wed, July 6), paddling out early Th morning, so there's still time for weather to shift. Time to work on weather magick! ;-)

And now to take care of last minute things 'n' stuff up here at CopperMoon before returning to home (Hive) Southward later this morning...zoom!

Down Time Needed

Feeling beat now. Feeling okay 'bout it though, as I just took some time to look at my GooCal and realized I've been going nearly non-stop now for about three (3) months: socializing, hosting, organizing, doing, accomplishing, facilitating, taking part in, wandering, exploring, experiencing, meeting folks, photodocumenting occasions/events/gardens/rivers/life, blahblahblah... It's okay to feel exhausted - I've got every right to feel exhausted - b'c my life's been freaking exhausting. Phew!

I am now DONE for a while. (Yeah, right. Well, I've got tonight anyway ;-) Hmm, realizing that this is only the 5th night this month I've been home alone here at the Hive. The previous home alone night was over 2 weeks ago. (I have no regrets 'bout any of this and amn't complaining, mind you, merely noting that I'm now beat and have good reason for feeling this way.)

Realizing that even this avowed extrovert needs SOME quiet alone time at home. And that's precisely what's built into my schedule now and again for the rest of the summer. Huzzah for me and self-care. :-)

Heh. Okay. I guess I feel pretty good 'bout what all I've done and how it's taken me this long before I ran outta steam.

The single thing that saved me today was this delightfully peppy 'n' poppy and for some unknown reason incredibly compelling song that dear sweet ebony_sphynx turned me onto recently: I Don't Want To Dance by Scissor Sisters. I've had it on Heavy Rotation all day for the last few days. The miles flew by, as did the hours, thanks to listening to this (track 2 Play Immersion 5) over and over and over and over and over

Hee - I just clicked Play Again and I've found myself re-energized and smiling hugely. It's been an amazing past 3 months. I think I'm way behind on posting pics, in part b'c I've stuck lots up on FB and'm not sure whether to duplicate 'em on Flickr or what. Too tired now to make decisions though.