The Scout and The Homesteader

Fall                                                                                       Falling Leaves Moon

Kate’s in Gilpin County right now, or on her way there, looking at the house we both liked. She’ll see several others over today and Monday.

Meanwhile I slept from 11 pm last night until 10 this morning. All that house hunting energy that kept me awake yesterday morning dissipated and left me sleep deprived. Got up at 5:45 am to feed the dogs, back to bed at 5:59. Being sleep deprived is difficult for me, I don’t like the feeling, call it sleep stupid, and my backup personality comes closer to the surface. That is, impatient, easy to anger. Well, it’s my backup personality in my estimation.

Maybe, it just struck me, that sleep deprivation puts me in a particular mood and keeps me there for the duration. I’ve become intrigued with moods recently. Moods are the local weather of the psyche while personality is the climate. Maybe I experience temporary global warming heating up my weather during sleep deprivation.

Gotta go outside and strengthen the silt fencing again. Rigel, and in her trail, Vega were playing in the resurfaced area, the part where we had to have a bobcat take care of their efforts over the last three years.

In this moment Kate’s the scout and I’m the homesteader. Gotta go done homesteader stuff.