An Almost Midwinter's Ramble

My little reprieve is rapidly coming to an end. This pause has been so restorative, but also it has made me not want to push quite so hard all the time. I am sure many of you feel that way when you finally take a pause, all you hustlers out there.

That said, the finish line is in view, this should be my last hard semester in school at least class load-wise, so I am feeling pretty positive about that.

However, I am not a kid, or even that young anymore, and I find my thoughts starting to coalesce in ways that are foreign to me. I have always been a very optimistic, curious person, one who sees opportunities to learn around every bend, yet, here lately I have realized that I am sorta content to just exist. It's strange how we evolve as we age. I am not sad about it, rather it is just a new bit of the trail to traverse.

Speaking of trails, our weather has warmed up yet again, so it's a slushy, wet mess around here. In fact, it looks more like March than January. Which of course has got me a bit spooked about fire season, yes, there is a TON of water right now, but without snow pack in all these mountains and with the incredible growth in the Inland PNW's population, I shudder a bit to think about this summer.

But, that's not in my hands, I just gotta keep this place from going up in smoke and I have a fire truck, equipment, a pump, and a river and a lake at my disposal, I'll do my best. And before that time arrives on the calendar the hubs and I get to jet off to Texas and Arkansas for an entire month for an actual vacation! We are going to stay in the second most haunted hotel in the country in Eureka Springs, go diamond mining, explore our friend's hometown. It's amazing when a trip you and a couple of your friends talked about materializes over a decade later. All our kids are grown as of this year, it's time to start doing those things.

But right now, right now I think I am going to take a nap. I have done all my chores, and I think opportune nap times won't be a very present thing for the next four months, at least not for this Kat.