Tired.

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I've been pushing for a bit.  Nothing severe, as it turns out.  I am not sore or terribly rough, just a bit weary of body.  I was wondering why waking was so rough this morning, until I actually got up.  Clouds, and a front of some sort, has moved in.  It's a bit dark, and a bit cooler, with windy and gusts, this morning.  No real problem.  I probably did need extra sleep, and got it.  It is not as if a 9:00 wake from a nearly midnight sleep is exactly an extreme over-sleeping episode either.  Still, I won't have a problem getting ready, then going in to town.  Just a bit of training on the next step in braiding and lunch, today.  I might pick up another gallon of milk, but that would probably be all else.

I have decided, even if I can, that I will be going out, every few days, wind rain shine snow or whatever.  Hopefully I can even push through the days I find myself willfully against more.  I will just dress a bit more or less warmly, though how to beat the other resistance, I can't be sure.  Perhaps knowing that, one way or another, this will be required for survival, might be enough?  I have warm clothes in my pack, and rain/wet gear.  Hmm... though I think I will put them back into the drybag.  Even in the summer, a sudden plunge into that cold river, on an otherwise nice day, might well see me to wanting to change to dry warm clothes.  At least if I wanted to continue my hike... or simply had a long walk back to the vehicle.  Yes, as I become familiar, I have a tendency to become incautious.  Trust me.  *splash*  It's most likely to happen.  I also think one side of my mind... wants to know "what if", and doesn't mind 'losing face'.  That part of me has no face, or care for such.  Then again, that part does make life more... interesting.

I did check my blood pressure yesterday.  The last time I visited the doctor, I didn't check what the nurse had measured.  She wasn't happy, but then they are rarely happy with it.  It was 158/110, when I did it myself.  A bit high, but nothing unusually high.  Higher doses of medicine will bring that down, but they will also end self-sufficiency, and are very difficult to maintain and regain if lost.  Whether the medicines or the illness makes maintenance so difficult, or at times both, I can't tell.  My guess is any and all of those can be the problem.  I suppose, really, that may be my normal.  It's pretty much my norm since 1999, so...  Perhaps, if I can continue to get out, and up, fishing and hiking camping and maybe this next winter snowshoeing, I might be able to lower it.  The goal is to be out at least three days a week, and as I can, to make one of those outings an overnight thing.  If I do three or four nights out, hiking, fishing, and scouting wildlife, that would be enough.  Still, if you get hooked on fishing yourself... funny how that hook can catch two creatures, enough might end up being never enough.  I am just speaking of goals, thoughts, and ideas.

I have been reviewing ideas.  A man-mule snow sled, for example.  Not sure that would be perfect, for all areas.  But it isn't a bad idea.  Only experience and practice would lead to knowing when and how to use such a thing.  For hunting, snowshoeing, and such.  Sometimes it would just be extra weight, but where it could be used, it would be a huge boon.  Lots of things come to mind as I begin thinking about out there, summer, winter, shine, and wet.  Even should I end up staying here, I may not be here, technically, as I have been.  I can't really travel out of state much, I am sort of locked into here, for now, for several reasons.  Any state I pick, must be picked carefully.  I do keep thinking about medical.  The thing is, if I break my leg here or elsewhere, it will probably be in a place where I would have to set it myself.  It doesn't matter where I live.  As for the blood pressure and such, that is what it is.

If the weather warms, I hope to be out shooting and hiking later in the week.  With one of my guns worked up to function, and two down, I want to get those running and get them out again, if not quite this week.  Maybe one of them for next week, and then one when I return home.  I'm not sure which will end up being the most work, so will probably go with the one I really want to get working.  Though, who knows.  Might get them both going, on rest days.  Or I might end up not being able to figure out even one of them.  Still, goals are goals.  I best get a shower/bath in, then get ready to head to town.  I am hungry today.  A good thing, haven't been hungry, it seems, for weeks, mostly.  Just ate because it was available, or as a gift for getting out.  Later.