Good morning 🔥 It's - 1 out there at sunrise. The sky was clear with stars when I was out earlier.
I took a walk on the Bean Brook yesterday afternoon. It wasn't long. Enough to get some photos of coyote tracks and Jack pine trees. While I was down on my knees I heard the water flowing under the ice. Everything still and frozen above while water and whatever else keeps moving underneath.
A few days prior, before the nightly below zero temperatures hit, the Bean Brook caused me to pause again. I was dumping compost buckets. Looked down at the moving water to see ice chunks floating down the middle of it. The edges were already frozen creating ice shelves.
The Bean has been causing me to pause a bit more lately. I'll be going along on the mail route, and while crossing over it see beauty. So I stop, turn around, and take a photo.
There's so much that goes on around it. Years back I remember watching otters play in it. It was winter. And I would come across their slides on the bank. I never seen them do it. But I can imagine they were having a blast doing it.
It's Monday. My day off from the mail trail. It's back to it tomorrow. I look forward to it. It's a job and it gives me purpose. It's not terribly hard work and I like the people I work with. Would I rather be doing something else with my time at times? Of course. I've mentioned that a time or two.Working half the hours for the same amount of pay might be nice. But that's fantasy land stuff.
Before tomorrow, though, I am looking forward to working outside putting up firewood for the morning fires and helping out Hayden with his Christmas projects.
What did Mark Manson say? Here, I wrote down in my notebook:
"The only way to feel better about yourself is to do things worth feeling good about."
I hope you have a great day!
Morning Fire 58
12.8.25
