Summer on the wind down

We have finally been enjoying some summer here in the Pacific Northwest.  Warm, sunny afternoons with a quick cool-down for nighttime sleeping are the norm for us in August and on into September. But all too soon it will wind down to fall.  Time for fire wood to be stacked and cut and split and stored and stacked ad nauseum...  I do love the break I get from the fire wood front during the months of July, August and September.  Man that stuff warms you up three or four times before it ever sees the inside of the woodstove!  So it is coming on like a freight train... I love summer.

Man am I sleepy!

I think I might have mentioned that one of the reasons this blog is called "Fire Garden" is that I am a firefighter...  Last night up at Oh dark thirty for a fire with a neighboring department... Man!  am I ever sleepy right now.  I don't think I can get through this day without a little nappy poo.  It is definately one thing to not like about the job.  Don't worry - I'll make it dancing in the Fire Garden.

An Exercise in Expression

So why did I desire to do a blog?  I think it was to provide an opportunity for writing and communicating through the written media.  I am finding that this is not as simple as I had hoped.  I find that many days can go by before I realize that I haven't written a thing.  Then I enter this site and sit before the keyboard wondering what on earth I will spend the next 10 minutes talking about.

I think it is still a good idea but it is one that I will have to learn how to incorporate into my daily routine.  I think another hurdle to clear is getting over the idea that I must have something important to write about, or say something profound, or make pithy comments or observations.  Good writing doesn't countenance such things but is content to report, observe and comment leaving the relevance of it all to the reader.  Now don't get me wrong, I don't want to slober on about nothing either.

So blogosphere ... I am still planning to make this a regular event but I am involved in a learning curve here and hope to make slow but significant progress in writing about the daily things along with the weighter stuff.  So I ask:  "Will you still love me tomorrow?"