Another night with interesting dreams and an early morning wake up. I’m not sure why I’m getting up in the wee hours and having trouble falling back asleep lately, but I am. It even happened on my last backpacking trip when I was setting an alarm for 4 in the morning. Though, technically, it felt like 5 to my body because I was in Pacific time each night. I did go back and forth between time zones during the day as I meandered from Idaho to Montana on the Stateline Trail.
I feel like the dream I was in just before the alarm was the most interesting, but I don’t remember it. I’ll admit that I used the snooze this morning. I really didn’t want to leave that dream, whatever it was. I’m pulling back my wake up time to 5:30 again, but today was 6 am because I didn’t get to bed on time. I’m planning on bed on time tonight which is why this is going to post before 8.
In addition to work, I also got a load of laundry done and the dishes. I had a salad with lunch and cooked up a frozen chicken fried rice dish on the stove. I think I need some new nonstick pans, because the ones I have seem to have lost much of their nonstickiness. In the morning, before work, I did a quick warm up and then did 10 incline pushups and 10 assisted dips. I want to keep working on strength for those while I move on to the next Back & Core program, so I’ll just try for at least 10 reps of each movement each day.
When I walked to the mailbox this morning, my calves were majorly protesting. I think they need some recovery time after all that ascending on my last trip. Or maybe some more hot baths. I could really use the hot springs, but they’re closed until the 28th. Hm, maybe that means it’s time to check out the hike in hot springs that’s not too far away. Maybe on Sunday because I definitely need to do trash on Saturday. Unless I hike out Friday night and am back before trash closes… Or even early Saturday morning. Trash is open until 5.
I thought that I’d recorded a final version of the song I started on the Snowslide trip, but I think I sang it and didn’t record it and just thought I’d recorded it. Oops. I think I remembered the lyrics that satisfied me. There’s one spot that’s a little off. I need to figure out what fits there well.
Still haven’t put my tent up for outside home sleeping. I’m not sure why. Maybe I’ll do it in the morning when it’s nice and cool. And I haven’t decided what to do over Labor Day weekend. I want to sleep outdoors, for sure, but where and will I also be hiking? Decisions, decisions… What would Ambrose do?
