December Yak Attacks

Let's see . . . . . .

According to the calendar, Monday was December 15th. That means that today is Wednesday, December 17th. What is amazing about these two dates? They both possessed GREAT kayaking weather (as is evident by the picture below).



Want to know something else? If I tell you, do you promise not to hate me? I went kayaking both days in a tank top and capris! Yeah. That's the usual 'yak attack attire when it is partly sunny and 70 degrees out.

Let's see if you can top that in the middle of December.

How was your commute?

Since DJ and I both work from home (the majority of the time), we find ourselves with free time that usually coincides with 'rush hour' for all those office workin' folks. What to do with this time?



I know. Let's go kayaking. So, we set off a little before 5 PM on Tuesday for a short 'yak attack. As we're paddling along, I looked left and saw the Neuse River bridge filled with commuters on their way home. I turned right and saw my husband's bright orange kayak and his cute little self wearing his favorite John Deere baseball hat.

"DJ, since we work from home, is this (our 'yak attack) our version of the end of the day commute?"

"Yeah. I guess so."

I love my life.

'Yak Attack

Sunday was Another Gorgeous (yet breezy) Coastal Carolina day! The pictures say a thousand words. Which is good considering that I don't have that much to add.

Water and a beefy tidbit . . . .

I wanted to share two things with y'all this evening.

1. I love living on the water. I love being back down south. I get giddy when I look up from working and see the our resident duck couple (the most recent additions to the menagerie) heading to our dock for their mid-afternoon feeding.

2. Water begets water. Living on the water has stimulated my interest in this precious, under appreciated, life-giving commodity. Did you know that if 10,000 people replaced one beef meal with a vegetarian option just once a week for a year, we'd save enough water to fill roughly 605 Olympic-sized swimming pools? And that is for just 10,000 people! Imagine what would happen if a million people substituted just one beef meal a week with a veggie meal? The results could be staggering (in Mother Earth's favor)! Man, The act of growing cows sucks a huge amount of precious resources.

Chew on that tidbit.

Quote for the day

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

--Lao Tzu

Sounds like a principle that could be practiced in other areas besides nature.

Quote for the day

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."

---Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

I got a freelance job on Friday. The 'final product' is due October 22nd. I'm excited and nervous as hell. Since accepting this opportunity, all my old insecurities have festered to the surface like splinters working out of skin. I think that is why the quote above struck a chord when I found it earlier today. These are words that I'm mentally repeating to (1) stay present and (2) remind myself that I have kicked ass in the past and I'll do it again. This week.

'Yak Attack

No, no, no. We don't have pissed off water buffalo in New Bern. When I say, 'yakin, I mean kayaking!

We woke up this morning and started to go about our usual morning routine, when DJ said, "Hey. Did you see the temperature gauge? It's only 60 degrees out."

I'm thinking, '60? I haven't seen that since Pennsylvania . . . in June.' Needless to say, I was impressed by our moderate climate this morning. So much so that I said, "Let's go kayaking?"

In a flash (OK, really 10 minutes), we changed, grabbed breakfast, got the kayaks down, life vests on and were hitting the water.

What a gorgeous morning. Early on in the trip, we had the sun rising on our left (picture #1) and the moon setting on our right (picture #2). The only tainting to a beautiful morning was the realization that the osprey have already left the area for the winter. Anyone know where osprey migrate to?