First clock I looked to this morning was the
wall clock…7:50 a.m. Instead of trying
to stay quiet because Kim was still sleeping, I went outside to read for a
while. Eventually looked at my Fitbit and was surprised to see that it was almost
10. Whoa!
Have I been out here for 2 hours already?
Sure doesn’t seem like it. Just to be sure I checked my phone and
computer also…yep, almost 10 a.m. I was
amazed but losing track of time is not uncommon for me.
I
went in the camper just as Kim was getting out of bed. He asked what time it was and I said, “Maybe
10:30.” He was surprised that he slept
that long…and then he looked at the wall clock. It was only 9:30! What?!
Kim and I had talked about the time
change last night but knew it wasn’t an issue for us because Arizona doesn’t do
Daylight Saving Time. It’s in Mountain
Time from November to March and in line with Pacific Time from March to
November. Only they don’t say it that way…it’s just considered Arizona time. So
our only adjustment would be remembering that we’re now three hours behind
Michigan in case we want to video call the grandkiddos.
And
I thought, I thought, I thought that I had disabled all automatic time change
settings on my phone and computer but obviously not because they had changed.
And since my Fitbit syncs with my phone they were all conspiring against me
this morning. Agh!! Decided that the battery operated clock on the wall with no
connection to technology is the go-to time keeper when we’re out here during
the time change because it doesn’t take it upon itself to jump forward or
backward. Human intervention is
necessary to make that hourly leap and we know better than to do that. Tick
tock, tick tock, tick tock…
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Today was a day off: no walking, no riding, no yoga, no tourist stuff…just doing mundane things like cleaning the truck and getting groceries. Getting groceries was planned and necessary…cleaning the truck wasn’t planned or really necessary, it was just a result of me getting off course when taking the garbage up to the dumpster.
I believe the temperature made it to 80o which made it nice just to veg out in the camper with the ramp down and all the windows open. So…it was a low key day and just what my legs needed after two days of keeping up with Kim on 5K time trials.
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We
did go down Picacho Hwy to check the trail cams and trade out cards. The one farthest down had nothing...zero, zip,
zilch, nada. Not even a pack rat.
The culvert trail cam, which had meat and smoked fish skin as ‘bait’, did have an early morning visitor…a skunk. And the video was good quality, better than some of the pictures which can be blurry if the animal is moving. The meat appeared to be untouched so we surprised to see that something had been in. I never thought about what a skunk eats but according to everything I found on Google, the answer to that is pretty much anything.
We left some meat, potatoes and fruit peels so
maybe tomorrow we’ll see the elusive javelina.
We know they’re in the area because we’ve seen them crossing Picacho Hwy…just
a matter of luring them into the path of the trail cam.
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We
didn’t go to the cell cam to trade out SD cards…Kim wants to wait another day
or two because he doesn’t want to stress the owl. I wanted to do it today but I can get behind
his reasoning. The cost of diesel is the
main reason I didn’t just drive over on my own when we got back from town. Since fuel prices jumped we’ve been trying to
limit our truck use. But I haven’t ruled out a trip over there on the bike
tomorrow.
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Ha! Kim just came in from his telescope and let an expletive fly after realizing that it was 9:02 instead of 10:02 as his phone indicated. Same story as my phone and computer this morning…his phone changed time and he didn’t realize it when he went to do an alignment and set up his target. His phone is one of the instruments he uses in aligning his scope. Using the correct time is essential for a quick, easy alignment but he was asking the mount to find the 9:30 p.m. position of a star at 8:30. That leads to a bit of frustration and using the phrase ‘what the hell’ a lot. He managed to make it work despite not understanding what was going on until he came in the trailer and saw the clock on the wall. That was his ‘Aha’ moment.
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So
today’s 40 Days of Lent challenge was one of charity…give to someone in need. It didn’t say what to give: time, money, or resources…just
give.
I
thought on this one for the better part of the morning. Who and what were the questions. Since we don’t know anybody in the community to
offer our time to or to help in some way that left money. Okay, so that answers the ‘what’, now how do
we figure out the ‘who’?
It’s always
a little dicey to assume someone is in need just from appearances; those
assumptions are usually judgements made based on my perceptions and can be
offensive. Since I’m not interested in offending that leaves giving to those
who stand on the corner asking for help, with or without signs. Since Kim met a man last year who admitted that
he made out pretty good moneywise by playing on people’s sympathy, I’m
skeptical of whether those on the corners asking for money have an actual need
or not. But I’m also mindful of the
verse that says: ‘whatever you did for the least of these brothers and sisters
of mine, you did for me.’ A conundrum to
be sure.
Well, it’s embarrassing that it took so long but it finally hit me: Ukraine. Community Reformed has set up a way to provide extra financial support to the mission organizations that CRC already supports and has been in contact with since the invasion. Ukraine certainly fits the bill of being in need. Glad that we could help out.
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