I’ve not written in a while. Just to break the ice, I’ll stream my consciousness and try to tell you what I did today, from near the beginning to now, near the end, leaving out a few of the more personal items. Here goes.
I didn’t wake up for my alarm that I set at 4am. It was supposed to wake me to refill the pans of boiling maple sap on the kitchen stove and refire the woodstove for the pots there. Instead I woke with the cat pawing me in the kidneys sometime before sunrise, between 6 and 7. The pans were fine, the woodstove fire was down to fine embers and all was well, I did those chores and dropped back into bed for a bit, not quite sleeping, not quite awake. I thought about computer programming for the iPhone, about the servers I run at work, and about the chickens (there was a rooster crowing in the back of my head somewhere).
I got up and added more wood to the woodstove, took one of the two 3.5 gallon roaster pans of evaporating sap off the kitchen stove and replace it with the kettle to heat water. I ground some beans and put them in the press pot, then I slipped on the outdoor slippers and went to the woodpile for more wood. The water boiled, and I poured it in the press pot, stirred it in and put the top on it, without pressing, and filled Mandy’s cup with hot water. (please continue reading only if you’re really dedicated to the mundane…)
