yes... I mean no!

Accomplishments seem so surreal sometimes. We spend all of our time and energy getting through the task...and then when it is finally over we somehow don't want them to end. It is the true dichotomy! The ultimate oxymoron. Come here, go away! No don't go! What a weird way of processing things. To me it seems to be a seasonal phenomenon, normally the spring. I wonder if that is because that is when most of us graduate from school. That is also the time if you have ever been involved in any winter recreational leagues that you are truly ready for them to end as well. Then two weeks later you wish it hadn't ended so soon. I mean it was only thirty six weeks long! We are definitely creatures of habit...even if we can't wait to kick the habit. I don't know if we will ever be able to just live in the moment and enjoy the feeling, even when it is the most hectic. But it has got to be a better feeling then wishing it wouldn't go... after complaining over the last several months that we wish it would just end. Hmmmm???

It's official!

Spring is officially in the books as far as I am concerned. I know this because this is how my spring always looks to those of us who spend time in the Ozarks. The peepers and wood frogs and chorus frogs are in full concert. The Nan king cherry and service berry are in full bloom. Winter flocks of turkeys are breaking up and the morning air is filled with song bird music as they come awake with the first morning blush of light to the east.

The woods have a smokey smell from people in the surrounding areas burning hay fields to encourage the early spring green up, and on occasions that smoke smell is from the woods that have caught fire from untended burns.
The
rivers run full from spring rains so that travel at times is difficult, do to the low water crossings. This sometimes can and does add countless miles to a normally short trip.
Spring has also arrived because that is the time when the stock men and those in the deer management arena make sure that their is plenty of mineral available for our four legged ruminants. To insure a good healthy offspring.
This is spring to me. This is the spring that I know where one stands out on the high ridge points at dawns early light listening for turkeys gobbling , with a warm cup of coffee in your hand, in anticipation of the season to begin. A few snow geese flying north still, heading to their breeding grounds on the Arctic tundra, with the rest of us hoping that we don't get a late spring freeze.

I know it is spring because I just picked the first five ticks off of me. Welcome back...welcome back.

say what?

I never thought that life would be quite like this! I am ever so amazed at how many things that I don't know. I swear that it seems as though I am learning ten completely different things a day this last month. I know I said in one of my early blog entries that if we aren't learning something everyday that I don't know why we are on this mud ball, or something to that sort of thought. But wow I feel as if I am going into sensory overload. The flip side of this is the fact that I absolutely love this feeling...of pushing my grey matter to the limit. The flip flip side to this is the idea that a lot of the stuff I am learning would probably not even get a yawn from most of my readers. Its amazes me how we react to stuff that we already know, or is assumed to know. As opposed to the things that we learn for the first time. I am not sure why we act / react to these things in the manner that we do, but it does strike me as interesting. Why are we not as excited about someone elses learning experiences like we are our own? Does that make us shallow or indifferent or callous? Or could it be that our ego just kicks in to tell ourselves that hah...we already knew that,... to cover up for the things that deep down in our psyche ... we know that their are things in this life that we know absolutely nothing about, but feel as though we should already know these things... at this point in our life. Because we also know that at some point we are going to be at that first time learner level as well. When someone else will be standing their next to us thinking what we are thinking now... that we should have already learned that... Wow, the ego is an amazing thing!