Don't you just hate when you have one of those all consuming nights where you spend hour after hour tossing and turning worrying and wondering about what will be. In the daylight, things just don't seem so problematic. Last night was one of those nights for me... toss, turn, worry, worry... it does no good. Thinking about things that can't be changed make worries pointless bed mates. And then the coyotes started. From 12:02 a.m. till about 1:45 a.m. the coyotes were yipping and howling... they must have dragged down a dear. I worried about the horse... I worried about the alpacas,.... and then I worried about the rabbit, (though the rabbit is close enough to the house that I felt she would be ok). Still, when the coyotes come that close they have a reason and generally I hope it is not my animals. Still that was not the only thing I worried about.... worry, worry, worry... I hate it.
On nights like that I hold Teapot's hand and try to stare out at the stars and watch their passing. Orion is in the sky again and he always cheers me. He has super strength... is all powerful.... and last night he came to my bedroom window with Northern lights. Blue ones.... Still he couldn't chase my worries away. He was in the south through the bedroom window and the Northern Lights were in the Northern sky, through the bathroom window... I was surrounded by night visitors. It made for an active night... but I really would have liked to just sleep.
Today the sky tells me that this will be a grey dull day. I think it will be a good day for some more knitting. I am trying to knit that lap comfort blanket for our guild and I made some good progress yesterday. Tomorrow will be a day to return to the level 5 homework... four more samples before I start the TPI questions... My goal was to start them on the 1st of March. A good goal I hope. But for now it is daylight and the dear ones have gone to school. I guess it is time for me to move on with my day too. It is certainly time to put those night worries out of my mind.... also a good goal for today.
A little sun wouldn't go astray and what a lovely pick me up. Maybe a nice uplifting movie too that will take my mind off those worries.
3 comments:
I swear that coyotes like to cut loose near houses just to give humans the willies! In my experience, they're like toddlers - it's when they're quiet that they are likely to be up to mischief. The night yodeling is just communication/socializing. And, of course, who wants all that potential THAT close by!
Though you haven't lived until you've had one give you a coyote-style horse laugh two minutes after you and the dog have walked past where its lurking in the bush. They are masters of snoot-thumbing derision!
Normally the coyotes don't bother me but for some night I just felt like I was in a terrible turmoil... slept better last night and if the coyotes were active I certainly never heard them or anything else apparently since Teapot had a disturbed sleep last night and he never even woke me up!
Six of one and half a dozen of the other! Never fails, does it?
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