good afternoon campers.....fabulous terrific tuesday today!......i have been trying to get back to my streamlining....which in the world of someone who is distracted by most anything, is kinda like stream-wandering.......maybe stream-wading, which is so fun to do, just walk through a stream, checking out nature and what God's created....kind of like God's instagram....pretty groovy creations!!!....back to streamlining......it's kinda like the two trains...the local and the other one which i can't remember what it's called......i'm definitely the local......probably the scenic.....maybe a slow boat to china........it's like back when toys r us was still in business....this was probably back in the 80's....i remember walking in to find a toy for our soon to be twins....and i was so distracted by everything.....i mean there were toys everywhere, up down all around.....and the colours.....wow.......pretty colours........shiny stuff......i believe i'm a magpie.......except without the stealing of stuff......and magpie....what a groovy name....well anything with pie in it is a pretty groovy name......moon pie, door pie, sky pie, dog pie, shoe pie, cow pie...ok maybe not that one...unless your'e a cow, mural pie, pie pie, etc......pie's looking like it's not spelled right at the moment.......
so back to streamlining.....it's like herding cats over here........have you ever tried to herd cats by the way?......cats just sit there and look at you and probably say to each other ....."isn't it so much fun to watch humans try to get us to do something that is never going to happen unless we want to do whatever it is we want to do when we want to do it....they think we have no control over our actions, and as if we would even need their crazy attention, we are not dogs, as if we would even...laser light!!!!!"......yeah cats are just as bad as me at times..... or could it be procrastination?....hmmmm....of course wouldn't that be a good thing??!!....i mean it starts with a pro......that means you need to be good at it to be called a pro....i really haven't heard of any amateurcrastinators....that is a mouthful of a word, but used in a sentence...."seeing how the llama was waiting for the boat in the hot sun, the alpaca amateurcrastinated getting in line and still made it on time"....obviously the alpaca wasn't a pro at crastination or he would have missed the boat completely......like i'm missing the boat on streamlining, which means i'm procrastinating, which means i'm not an amateur i'm a pro, which means i'm a professional at getting distracted, which means i should be getting paid more because of course professionals get paid more, which means i can go on more vacations, which means i can travel the world by boat, which means if i'm a pro at procrastinating....i will miss the boat...... so procrastination is not the best thing to be a pro at...you'll miss the boat, the llamas, and the cowpies (which could be a good thing).............. probably better to be a professional cat herder.......be groovy........(yeah, God's having a field day with this one)
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good morning all you fabulous campers!!!.....it's another amazing day..... a day to bring joy into someones life.....a day to say...."hey, you matter"....and "hey, you are loved"............that's our God moment to begin your day with!....right on groovy peeps.........God's being my wingman today at my post....well everyday really..........of course i get going and and God looks away for just a second, and then He looks back and is like..."what are you writing?"...it's an interesting relationship here......
so i bet you didn't know that if you boil water in the microwave for awhile it will eventually kind of blow up?....ok....so what happened was i was boiling water in a mug for turmeric tea.....super great tea......anyway i set the microwave to 3 min ....i stopped the microwave at about 2min 45 sec and opened the microwave....but the water didn't seem to be boiling....so i shut it and turned it back on.....and ...i am laughing now at my reaction......it was pretty funny......anyway....i was watching it.....cause why wouldn't you sit and watch a microwave cook stuff?!...it's like watching yeast grow.....fascinating........and all of a sudden the water blew out of the top of the mug.......sorry i'm laughing so hard at this.....it wasn't like it boiled over, it blew out of the mug....straight up and everywhere in the microwave...... my reaction was to jump back and yell whoa...or something like that....it super shocked me, .....well not static shock, ....i cannot stand to get static shocked.....i will smack things numerous times before i touch them.....probably comes from the whole electric fence thing........ back to the microwave.... it was hilarious....i had jumped back , yelled and then burst out laughing......looking around to see if anyone was watching....you know the drill....... it's like when you trip and you look around to see if anyone saw ,...and of course someone always does....which makes you feel foolish and then you try to brush it off like.."of course i was trying to almost fall and then catch myself on a person in front of me which caused their pants to rip , which caused them to spill their drink on the person walking toward them, which caused that person to throw their arms out which smacked another person, who stepped on a dogs foot, who bit"......ok so i got a little carried away.....gosh, that reaction....wait there's a word....chain reaction, so this chain reaction could go on forever......hey.....it might still be going on.....what?!........whoa......i mean just think about that...........heavy ...........oh and then it comes back around to you and you get a drink spilled on you along with being smacked in the face and bit by a dog, which rips your pants.....hopefully the drink didn't just come out of the microwave after exploding....which actually would be very safe, cause there wasn't anything left in the mug.....ha ha....just a microwave full of water.......every time i stop to think....scary, i know.....my cursor jumps back to the beginning of the post and then i will start typing and.....is it still called typing?.......anyway, it jumps to the top and i start on a thought and by the time i look up everything i wrote is now at the front of the post......good times..... ok where was i???....chain reaction and feeling foolish.....but aren't we all foolish at sometime or another.....i can tell you with me it's more "times"....not just "somes".....like how many times am i not being foolish or doing something really goofy.....yeah...moving on.......i guess we just need to start this groovy chain reaction.... laugh at ourselves more, which makes people smile, which makes people remember something silly they did, which makes people laugh, which bring joy to people.......be groovy!!!! and remember God loves ya!!!!....right on! good afternoon you fabulous campers!!!.....speaking of campers, that has become a big activity now....camping in the great outdoors......sometimes your outdoors is really out your door.....like your backyard......the best things about camping in your backyard are,.... it's free! ....food can be kept in the fridge, no need for coolers full of ice that are constantly melting.....hot water and the big one.....a toilet that flushes......funny how you don't realize how nice that is till you are without one......you see some years ago...my youngest daughter and i went backpack camping on the appalachian trail with her girl scout troop .......these were high school age girls.......so while i have never backpack camped.....i was all for it....i love to camp so....this is gonna be super fun!!!.....
so the plan is we get on the AT from amherst va.....there is a figure 8 trail that's about 10 miles long total...remember i only remember bits and pieces of things...trail might have been longer or shorter........so we don't have to backtrack while backpacking....ha ha......anyway.....so we divvy....strange word when spelled out......up the gear so everyone has similar loads....just 40 pounds......no problem......at the beginning...........and off we go....well let me backtrack a bit to the night before....i guess my spidey-sense should have been up when the troop leader says "we're gonna camp here at this campground for the night and then start off in the am"......and she points to an open field......."where is this campground you talk of?" i ask.....she laughs and walks off......right......... so back to 40 pounds on my back.....i don't know if anyone saw "wild" the story about the lady who walks the western version of the AT in well, the west.......cause that whole trying to fit everything in your backpack scene and put it on is very true.......you want everything light....didn't know that trail mix and ramen are heavy.....but after 5 miles....everything is heavy....you're trying to shove everything in a backpack that only fits half of that stuff.......it's like trying to get an inflatable unicorn raft back in the box it came in after being inflated.......it just doesn't happen......so after much wrangling with the pack....it's like a wildcat attacking it's prey....rolling around, punching, prodding, standing on it, screaming and yelling......other hikers we're shielding their kids from us and getting back in their cars and locking them, saying things like....."mommy i'm scared"...."just look away dear, it'll be ok"............... then try standing up after putting on your pack....yes, you do fall over backwards...we had alot of webbles that wobble and do fall down....reference to an old tv commercial...webbles wobble but they don't fall down...ha ha....anyway.....we had to put their packs on them and then the last one had to prop against a car to wiggle in theirs.......and that was just the first 3 hours.........so off we go up hill, in the snow, barefoot.....no , that would of been really bad.....but i definitely would have missed the trail head if the leader had not pointed it out......it was this tiny opening between trees......more previews of things to come...... so uphill over rocks and boulders we go....... the AT is really beautiful....well the scenery, the actual trail, i feel, needs a little more obvious marking.......some places it does look like a trail, others are just packed grass, and some it's a random color randomly placed......it's like those little towns that people say, don't blink or you'll miss it....well don't blink or you'll miss the color and off the trail you go.........so fast forward to our "campground"....i say that lightly cause once again the leader says "here's our campground" pointing to a direction of nowhere........supposedly the boy scouts made this campground.....obviously it was a boy scout who didn't really want to make a campground so he just stomped around a bit and said "yeah i made a campground".........so the big plus for this "campground" was it has running water!!!! yea!!! show me where..............................a stream.........................."and i gather the toliet is???" .....i got handed a shovel.........actually a garden trowel....must think light, remember?!.............. other fun things we did.........not taking our flashlights with us to go see the "view" at sunset.....trying to find our way back to the "campsite" after dark with no lights...yeah, it's really dark up there........tying up our food so the bears don't get it....yes and like in "wild", i had already read the numerous ways bears can kill you.....just to be prepared......very reassuring.....rescuing me from the tree as i went up instead of the food............sleeping in our little nylon tent of safety...surely no bears can get through that.....listening to the numerous bears outside our little nylon tent of safety eating the food.......eating ramen for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.....i gather bears don't like ramen...siphoning water for drinking....a little mud isn't that bad...right??!...... so this was my first primitive camping experience......and considering all the craziness of the trip, it was pretty fun.....i just need to keep my camping expectations to a minimum and all will be well...well.....basic....as in basically nothing for your comfort.....of course i could just fill a backpack full of stuff...walk around the neighborhood and then camp in the backyard.....i could name my campground "camp of running water, flushing potty, and no bears"......be groovy! |
bobbi plentovichim bobbi from bobbis murals...muralist, artist, creative mess. writing a blog about the journey of a muralist/ artist and her quest for a place in the confetti coloured art world Archives
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