Something is making a lot of ruckus out there. It sounds honklike, maybe a bird but it is certainly an odd sound. It is almost noon and I am just getting out of bed.
There were two thunderstorms last night, quite distinct ones. One came in just as it had barely gotten full dark. The wind through the trees was so loud that I wondered how much louder it had to get to be a tornado but carefully phrased it with I don't need to know the answer to that now. The thunder rumbled across the sky and shook the ground (or maybe it was the lightning strikes, so deafening I thought they must be nearby but probably were no where near.) I had time though to try and figure out if I was actually afraid or not but I decided that anxious, at times very anxious, was more accurate. The town we live near was almost totally wiped out by a tornado the year we moved here just about this time of year.
The only thing I could think of to do was put up a mental shield of white light around the tent, a globe that would stick into the ground to hold the tent down and above to redirect falling branches. Then I thanked the air elementals for cooling it down but explained that the intensity wasn't necessary. I held the shield in my mind until the storm petered out. About dawn or so when it was just starting to get light another one blew in and I visualized the shield again until I feel asleep again. But I didn't get a lot of sleep in the night. In the morning though awake I just wasn't ready to get up so lazed in bed for hours.
My sleeping bag and pillow are damp from sliding against the tent wall and there were two puddles on the floor along with various spatterings of drops. I doubt things will dry today as it is very humid. But its only one more night and I can go home to a shower, and dry clean bed (this one has collected dirt and bits of leaves, which I can't seem to get rid of.) I go home on Wednesday morning, my birthday, and I am planning on soft-boiled eggs and maybe toast too for dinner. Sounds yummy doesn't it?
Well I did my last dance around the Cauldron and it didn't take much to make me light-headed. But I had an opportunity to give thanks for what I have received and point out that there is still today and tonight left:) Yesterday and so far today have been hard. I really don't feel well. I have moments when I feel ok but only if I don't move around much. Once I get up and start doing something I very quickly feel ill. It looks like today is going to be spent primarily sitting.
I did the nightly tick check and found two attached and one walking around. I shudder to think what might be in my hair since I have been unable to check my head. This was an aspect of the vision quest I didn't really expect and one I could well have done without.
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