the sun also rises

[chelidon]

The last three years I've been getting up by 7am every day, so I can motivate my beamish boy out the door and down the road and make sure he gets on his bus. Now, normally, my idea of an ideal "morning" would involve getting up sometime between 10am and noon, or so it used to be. I am now finding myself at times going to bed before 11pm, sometimes as early as 10pm, and getting up early because I just can't sleep in like I used to. Some of that is an active 7-year-old bouncing around the house, but some of it is, I shudder to say, just me.

This morning, I actually went out at some ungodly twilight hour and moved the tractor back into the horse barn and threw a tarp over the firewood in the chicken coop because it looked like rain. Partially it was because I was already up and those things needed doing, and, well, it was getting light out. The early morning twilight, with mist rising off the stream, was quite lovely, actually. Maybe I'm just getting more in synch with the world around me, and making best use of natural light and such, but I have to say, as a religiously dedicated night person, I view this development with about the same suspicion as I would growing a third leg and an extra head.

Oh, well. The world changes, and so do I. Maybe I'll go pull an all-nighter, though, just for old time's sake.

Comments

[artemis112.livejournal.com]

Hey there... I just now saw that you were looking for my email addy. I've been an LJ slacker for a little while (with no sign of that changing anytime soon). I left it for you back in my journal. Looking forward to talking with you!

And as someone who has now started to wake up earlier out of necessity rather than desire, I can completely relate to your predicament. I hate waking up any earlier than the 9's if I can help it. Recently, I've had to look at the 5's. Not happy about it.

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

5's are evil. 6's aren't much better. *yawn* Sunrises are pretty, but so are sunsets, and they're scheduled at a so much more civilized hour...

Time was, the only way I wanted to see dawn was because I hadn't yet gone to sleep. Ah, well, we do what we must...

[ravenedgewalker.livejournal.com]

I still view anything before 8am with extreme suspision, and jet-lag feelings come the afternoon.

speaks she who has to be up at 5.30 tomorrow to catch a coach to catch a plane.....

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

ick. 5's is eeeeevil. Good, safe and uneventful travels, and good teachin' to ye!

Early Mornings

[(Anonymous)]

We get up at 5:40 now, partly so Tam can start-early/leave-early at work, partly because it is helpful with the farm work. With summer coming my working hours will start to become curtailed.

During summer I usually try to do outside work from 6:30 'till 9 AM, then more after 3:30 or so.

That lack of Ozone is darn annoying! That and we don't have the nice brown layer of protective haze that the Northern Hempisphere generates with all its lovely coal-fired manufacturing.

It is nice to start to know the season by the different type of dawn chorus, though!

Stephen in NZ

Re: Early Mornings

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

Ah, summer...I keep forgetting that yer seasons are upside-down now ;> I hear ya about the chorus -- I have to say that one of the things I love best about living out here is the intimate relationship I have with the land, and how I can't help but notice all the little things that change every day, as we move from one season to the next. Yum.

Hmm, yeah, no ozone is bad....watch that skin! I'd gladly send you some of that coal-haze, if I could figure out how!

[ravenhbh.livejournal.com]

I am similarly ambivalent about oh-dark-thirty. When I find myself awake at that hour, I usually think "how beautiful the world is at dawn..." at least if I'm awake enough to notice it at all. The mist, the coolness, the sharp contrast of the light coming over the horizon and through the trees, really beautiful.

HOWEVER

I don't seem to find it SO compelling that I can make myself get up (willingly) to experience this beauty on a regular basis. Down comforters tend to win out when given the chance.

Sigh. Luckily for me, even if Sven is a morning person, Natasha is definitely NOT a morning dog. She clearly takes after her mom :-)

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

heh. Well, mixed marriages can work, I mean, look at C and me. Forest, so far, is more of a morning person, but I have hopes he'll outgrow it...

[snakey.livejournal.com]

Up. At. Six. So. Not. Impressed.

Also, the title of your post is concerning. o_O Have you been near any wars lately?

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

lol. "Isn't it pretty to think so?" Heh.

Your comment makes me think of that Python restaurant (dirty fork) sketch..."the wound, the wound!"

I suspect most wars are started by morning people. The rest of us would much rather just sleep in.

[ardaraith.livejournal.com]

...or you could just be getting old! lol

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

phlllbbbbt! and harumph!

Getting old is what happens to you if yer lucky and, at least so far, I've been darn lucky...

And in the interests of good manners and gentlemanly decorum, I will tactfully not point out that in a very few short years, you'll be every bit as lucky as me... (oh, whoops...was that my outside voice??) ;-p

[ardaraith.livejournal.com]

LOL

Freak!

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

Pot, Kettle, Black...

And I just opened a bottle of Magic Hat "Batch 375" beer. Magic Hat brewery (a local microbrew) puts sayings and advice on the inside of their bottlecaps, and we tend to use them as a kind of divination (my housemate Paul collects them, in fact, to cast like runes). Some of them are profound, some are just weird. (I want the job to be the one to write them!)

The one I just got says, "To be Olden Is Golden."

PHLLBBBBTTT!! PHLLBBTTTTT!! PHLBBBTTTTT!!

fewkin' gods are laughing again. Harumph.