Open Forecast

The weather forecast has become my future outlook. As it goes, so do I. I don't even look at the temperatures. Just the little sun icon or the dreaded rain clouds. We're halfway through May now and we're not quite done planting corn. We haven't turned a wheel since late last week when the skies opened. It should be dry enough later today to get back after it. We should have the last of the seed we've been waiting on. The time is here to finish corn off and move to the next crop, the faster crop. But I don't want to make this all about work. Not one of my readers comes here to hear about that. (Here to hear? Nice.)  They come for the other side of things, the rest of the Tugboat's mental energy. I haven't shared much about my sleep. I got into a good routine before things got busy and have been able to maintain it for some time now, with a few exceptions of course. I get into bed shortly after 9pm and stay there until 6am. Somewhere in that window I am able to secure around seven to eight hours of sleep according to my FitBit. It tells me more about my true sleep than the clock, not much more but enough. Last night was a much deeper sleep and I had many dreams. Naturally I don't remember any of them but I am encouraged that I am aware that dreams are happening. I think I know why dreaming has increased. Over the last couple of years I have become dependent on having noise to fall asleep too. I think it is a product of today's world, needing something to focus on to slow my thoughts and allow me to sleep. We've talked about it before, it's fine. You should remember! Anyways, so there is a new function in the Podcast app that allows me to stop after the current episode. That means that after the first half hour or so I am sleeping in silence. Well relative silence considering I live close to a busy road. So that silent period maybe allows me to get into a deeper sleep for longer which facilitates the dreams. Too bad most of the dreams are all about work. Mostly panicking about something going wrong or disappearing. The rest are generally about being trapped in a location or having to escape from a location or situation. Those ones involve lots of people from my life. It usually works out, if not I do the proverbially monopoly table flip and just wake up. So either way I'm winning at dreams. Well I guess not losing is the more accurate assessment but who needs to be accurate, they're dreams! I hope with all raindrops fading from the forecast that I can keep dreaming and keep winning. I will need to enjoy my dreams because life is going to become a nightmare. That is harsh, it's just going to get busy, not even crazy busy. The point is, I like sleeping more than working. Boom!