I enjoy this band!
I enjoy this band!
Corinne Bailey Rae….with Herbie Hancock on the piano.
What a relaxed performer.
Good music is always good.
I don’t know where Lilly goes.
She’s on the porch every morning for her food, but where she goes at night is a mystery.
She’s pretty old at this point, and she’s survived outside all these years, so she must be doing something right.
She’s a survivor.
All these coyotes, other “bad” cats, bears….she survives it all.
We worry about the puppy getting out and roaming around the yard, but Lilly goes wherever she wants to go.
I don’t think I’ll GPS her, though.
Let the mystery be.
How much time do we give away with our relentless pursuit of hygiene?
I’m kidding, of course.
Staying clean is a beautiful thing.
It’s close to ….what? Godliness? No….that sounds really bad. You can’t be Icarus just because you’re showering every day. Using a good body wash doesn’t put you into the same category as Lucifer.
It’s good to be clean.
I’m squeaky.
I think that Jenny thinks sometimes that I’m like these dudes, though.
I work on the car or something and I get pretty dirty.
You live….you work…you get dirty.
And then, if you’re a good human bean, you wash all the stink and grime away and perfume yourself with fragrant oils.
I’m kidding.
Regular soap only for me.
Staying clean is the easiest way to make yourself feel like there’s hope for the future.
I can watch politicians if I’m clean and blow them off like so much goo sticking to the bottom of my sneaker.
Clean gives me hope.
Man….the dudes in this video are nasty, though. (Not the ones talking….the ones they’re talking about….)
Good to have something to compare myself to, sometimes.
Some folks is even dirtier than me.
Who knew?
These take a while to make….but the wait is worth it.
Of course, waiting isn’t the hardest part.
What’s hard about me waiting for somebody else to have an adventure?
Check out his website at https://bhiking.com/ ….good stuff.
And…check out the music! He scored this himself…..
I watch our dog sleeping sometimes, and, sometimes, I can see that he must be dreaming of running.
His legs are moving, but he’s not really going anywhere, except, maybe, in his dream.
I’m not running (again), and I wonder if I’m not like that dog, dreaming, moving my legs in my sleep but not going anywhere?
All it takes is lacing up and stepping out.
All it takes is giving up on not trying.
Funny thing is, I do dream about running sometimes.
I dream that it feels good.
I dream that it feels effortless.
That’s the beauty of dreams.
This is a trail running video.
If you want to see some of the wilder parts of Europe, this would be a good way to do it.
If you can’t be there, you may as well watch a video.
If you can’t run, you may as well be “dog dreaming”.
Dreaming is a start….right?
Man.
A good pressure washer and a good weed eater.
That’s all I need.
I’m kidding, of course.
My needs seem to be endless.
Even trying to work your way towards a simple life, you have to have the things that support simplicity…like the perfect bowl and wooden spoon.
Wasn’t the wooden spoon part of the Nearing’s simple living style?
I don’t remember.
We rented a pressure washer that got harder and harder to restart as the afternoon progressed….but it was a revelation how nice you could get stuff looking if you could blow off the crud with a high pressure stream of water.
That pressure washer worked great when it was working.
The good weed eater was something that we had already, and I spent the morning whacking all the tall grass and weeds I could find.
You feel like you have some control when you can beat all the vegetation down to short nubs with a good weed eater.
I like feeling like I have some control, sometimes.
Things like weed eating or mowing the lawn….pressure washing….are so straight forward that they’re a pleasure.
Other than running over someone’s shoe or a toy that got left out in the yard, there’s not a whole lot of pondering that goes on with those activities.
There’s not a lot that can go wrong.
It’s kind of a dodge that keeps me from worrying about how to do the things that take more concentration, too.
It’s good to get outside and walk around and only concentrate on walking around….even if it’s behind a noisy lawnmower.
It’s been dry here…and that makes yard work easy.
Easy is good…sometimes….even if it’s hard work.
Awwwww.
Cheap bikes are like cheap guitars….all shiny and good looking….but when you try to ride or play one, they fall apart or sound like….crap.
And, in the case of a cheap mountain bike, they can be kind of scary.
Check out this video….pretty crazy.
Buy a used bike for the same money…..buy something decent and safe.
These Billy Yang films are excellent.
Most/all of them are about running.
Watching these films, I realize that maybe, for me at least, some of the appeal of all this is that there seems to be such a strong focused intention that….again, maybe….
What was I saying?
Oh….focus….something about focus.
Something about…..
I guess that it’s breaking it all down to the most simple application of effort to serve a goal.
I’m not very good about doing that, sometimes.
I’m all over the map….trying to cover too many bases….not covering any, sometimes.
But….to have your running shoes laid out the night before….step out of the doorway in the darkness of morning….waiting for the day to wake up and start while you cover a little distance….that’s a good feeling.
I like to watch these people prepare to do this thing they do.
That’s the thing about running that’s so appealing….it’s simple.
That’s kind of strange, too, that one of the appealing things for me is to watch people get ready to do the action packed stuff.
You can’t spend your life preparing.
Sometimes you just have to step off and see what happens next.
And sometimes you just need a little focus.
It’s not a bad thing to concentrate on one thing at a time….sometimes.
It’s raining hard here.
It’s funny how, after a long dry spell, after a drought, when it rains, finally, it’s so welcome and unique….or something.
Or something.
It’s good.
I hope that it keeps up for a while….we do need the ground to get a good soaking.
My Jeep is still down, so I’m driving the old Toyota pickup.
I use a camper cover that makes it next to impossible to see when it’s raining, so maybe the rain might be a bad thing, but I’ll deal with that if it happens.
We want the thing that we don’t have….and now it’s raining.
I miss the sunshine already.