grim23 | Oct. 17th, 2013

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." ~ Nido Qubein

Goals Completed: 32
Goals in Progress: 26

Today was spent outside on a wonderful, warm day. I spent most of the morning cleaning out the first layer of the woodshed, while Zac cleared out the yard debris to the burn barrel and took another whack at cutting some more of the long grass in the garden field. In the afternoon, I finished cutting away the blackberries around the apple tree by the greenhouse, reclaiming a significantly larger chunk of side yard and clearing out an old trash pile. There is still work to be done; more blackberries will be cut back so that the fence along the ridgeline can be replaced and staked in its original position.

Meditations continue, and tonight is the last Bhoga to Shakti. It occurs to me that being outside and working to restore the House of a Thousand Projects is itself a joyful meditation, but more formal meditations in the evening are also useful and instructive. I’m becoming calmer and more focused, and stronger. I will spend tomorrow, with the change from Bhoga to Bhakti, going through the entire process of Oregon licensure, despite delays on the part of the Board. New word: nocuous, defined as likely to cause damage or injury, harmful (the little used positive form of innocuous).

68. try a new food each month [24/32] - Spanish Soup, Zimtfladen, Pinon Nut Coffee, Peanut-butter Oreos, Neua Yang Nam Tok, Strawberry-Vanilla Marshmallows, Nacho Rings, Triple Chocolate Pizookie, Cinnamon Sugar Rice, Bacon Jam, Midnight Moon Goat Cheese, Dark Chocolate-covered Pomegranate Seeds, Macaroni and Cheese Pizza, Coffee Porter Ale, Moscato Peach Chicken, Crunchy Cookie Butter, Elk Meatloaf, Turtle Bread Pudding, Bordeaux Truffle, Pittig Cheese, Blueberry Cheesecake Milkshake, Bolinhos de Coco, Juniper Pale Ale, Spold Mac,

complete the geocaching Finds by Day of Year (all years combined) [363/366]
learn 50 new words [12/50] – crepitate, otiose, neuston, scarper, mugwump, ceinture, ilunga, arigata meiwaku, kunik, lazaret, accismus, nocuous,