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More devastating news this morning. Yesterday afternoon, late, while self-engaged at the kitchen sink looking out over the back yard, I noticed a small terra cotta bowl planter missing. Realizing I had placed it outback in the morning, I went to retrieve and replace and to my absolute horror and terror the four tiny basil plants I had sprouted from seeds and was nurturing along carefully had fried well before they were ready to use.

Yes, they were wilted beyond the point of no return. DOA, COD severe dehydration.

YOU SOUND STUNNED. ARE YOU OVER IT?

No. Not yet.

I planted 20-25 of the tiny black seeds taken from the plant brought in and over-wintered. In this experiment, only 4-5 germinated and were growing, thriving actually all tightly clumped in the center of the bowl.

YOU HAVE TO SNAP OUT OF THIS. LIFE GOES ON AND THAT ALL LIFE.

Oh I know.

I crushed some more of the dried seed pods, cast the seeds again in the dish and watered well with a healthy soak. Tomorrow which is now today the process begins .2.

This day began at 4:20. There was a ‘bad dream’ from a past occupation where I got into a disagreement with a customer on a connector application. It got so heated I had to wake up.

Or was it the wind and sounds from the open window and the smell of rain?

IDK and it doesn’t matter.

I was up, AM UP and the day had begun but not until a little later like closer and just before 5:00 when I got up and shut down all things electrical including the items on overnight chargers.

Still dark, rumbles and flashes of thunder and lightning respectively, occasionally pierce and upset the stillness.

Last night while binging on telly, I made the list for today and it is Full. I mean there are 12-15 items to address and right now I am THINKING I would accept 50%. However if I revisit the list to reprioritize, I could possibly go MUCH higher.

HOW ?

Y you ax chemo sabe?

Shorter, quick actionable items up front aka ‘cripples’ can be grouped early and getting 2-3 or even ONE (1) completed to ground and out of the way would be HUGE generating momentum as the day starts out.

Neither coffee or tea this morning. Call it fasting or breaking or better ALTERING a habit or routine for health or mental health considerations. Perhaps the slight shift is even spiritual again IDK. It will most likely be a temporary abberation versus a phenomenon.

I DO KNOW I must post up and move along. When it gets light I may have some of the high-anti-ox tea on the rocks. Over ice for you rookies. And that’s a big IF should the icemaker be performing. Something about drinking iced tea in the dark is creepy.

Not that big of a deal either way.

The thunder is moving closer so it looks like no lawn gets mowed today. Talk about ‘silver linings.’

Yesterday finalized details of a meeting for delivery of WatchingtheShore.3 Cannot post the time or place to avoid risk of robbers stealing me blinder. They certainly wouldn’t take any of the clothing which for the most part are collections of holes held together by progressively smaller pieces of fabric or material.

All and all I am optimistic as this day begins.

Small loss in garden not same as small setback in life.

The rain has begun and thunder near.

Perhaps I will make a pot of coffee …