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chris_warrior) wrote2021-07-04 07:44 am
chris_warrior) wrote2021-07-04 07:44 am
in which July 4rth has always been weird.
i know i haven't been updating here as much, but life's been pretty on-par. not a lot of exciting stuff, not a lot of new stuff. just a weirdly-high amount of work, averaging 8-9 appts a week, working on the garden and trying to stay ahead of the weeds, and spending time plotting, writing, and editing my fanfic and chatting with various people online. some gaming. this weekend, i finally got to see Nephew again for the first time since Christmas 2019, and we watched the first two eps of Loki together since i've been DYING to talk about it with people and he hadn't seen it.
trying to shrug off trans-Atlantic crush. trying to get my butt back in gear with biking and walking and all The Fun Stuff, and get my sleep back on course.
it's life. it's happening.
but this morning i went up to greet the front maple tree because it seemed distressed about something (i thought maybe it was just the fact that it's been ignored in favor of the side yard, and wanted reassurance) and then it seemed like the other maple, to the side, was jealous, so i went to talk to it, and then a HUGE flying shape went over my head and i realized it was a pileated woodpecker. it flew from the front maple to a neighbor's tree.
now, the front maple is older, and has had a lot of dead branches of late, but i understand a pileated making it nervous; they tend to gut trees. but it's a process, here on this plane. everything moves in a complicated dance of growth and death and rebirth, and i'm trying very hard to honor that right now. i sent the woodpecker the assurance that it was OK, and reassured the maple that it would be all right - it has LOTS of years left - and we'll see what happens.
trying to shrug off trans-Atlantic crush. trying to get my butt back in gear with biking and walking and all The Fun Stuff, and get my sleep back on course.
it's life. it's happening.
but this morning i went up to greet the front maple tree because it seemed distressed about something (i thought maybe it was just the fact that it's been ignored in favor of the side yard, and wanted reassurance) and then it seemed like the other maple, to the side, was jealous, so i went to talk to it, and then a HUGE flying shape went over my head and i realized it was a pileated woodpecker. it flew from the front maple to a neighbor's tree.
now, the front maple is older, and has had a lot of dead branches of late, but i understand a pileated making it nervous; they tend to gut trees. but it's a process, here on this plane. everything moves in a complicated dance of growth and death and rebirth, and i'm trying very hard to honor that right now. i sent the woodpecker the assurance that it was OK, and reassured the maple that it would be all right - it has LOTS of years left - and we'll see what happens.
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And yay for lots of work! :D
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