GM! It's 5:45 AM. I've been up since 4:15. No alarm clock. My body gets me up.
It's just below zero out there. The snow quit falling yesterday morning.
When I got home from delivering mail and loading my mom's wood stove I blew snow and plowed it. It was soft, easy to work with.
It was dark. It's always dark when I'm not working on workdays. I had a powerful headlamp on, so I could see what I was doing.
About 8 PM I shut the tractor off, and called it a day. Then it's run, stretch, lift light weights to keep this body fit.
I eventually sat down for dinner at 9:30 PM. The rest of the family there as always. I'm lucky in that regard. It's good to be together with people you love on cold, dark days.
Back to this morning. I was interrupted in my morning meditation. Sadie, the cat, climbed the Christmas Tree with about two minutes left in my sit. I thought I could sit through it. The gnawing of plastic needles and maybe the electric cord got to me though. So I got up, grabbed the spray bottle, and before I could shoot a stream of water at her she was out of the tree. I took a couple shots at her on the run. Didn't need to, but I did anyway.
Just like that she goes from the great forgetting to the great remembering.
Did she know better? I don't think so. Did she think she was getting away something? I don't think so. I think her desire got the best of her. It's easy to forget when that happens.
I assume this because I have desires too. And have done things I probably shouldn't have done.
Morning Fire 61
12.11.25
