Tired of sleeping
Well I don’t think I’ll be sleeping anymore. 
Perhaps it was the garlic and onion canned tomato I put into the rice and chicken dinner tonight or maybe it was the fact that I went to bed tonight at 9:30pm, but for some reason I woke up at 3am. I stayed in bed for an hour trying to get back to sleep but it just wasn’t happening.
So I’m up and writing on this blog while catching up on my listening to Harry Shearer on Le Show. He has some very interesting insights on news and events around the world. Check him out. (Yes the guy from the Simpsons.)
I think I need to get a new bed. Actually I don’t think, I know. There is a shallow indentation in the center of the bed that causes you to roll downward into it. This happened a couple years ago during a particularly entertaining evening when company was over but I didn’t notice until several months later. For some reason I was distracted. The shallow has gotten worse over the years.
Regardless I’m thinking of trying a waterbed this time. I hear they are much better for the back. Maybe I’ll be able to get a solid nights sleep again.
In the meantime off to the races.
Speaking of races, there is a positive side to getting up in the middle of the night. On Sunday I got up at 4 am and it was a full moon. I went to the kitchen and looked out the back window and saw movement in the backyard. Bigfoot!
I looked closer and upon further inspection it turned out not to be bigfoot but was in fact a herd of deer. There were perhaps 12 of them moving in a line across the back yard. There were baby deer, does and a few larger deer all cautiously moving through the yard. Their coats were highlighted by the moon and you could see them in various levels of shadow and light as they crossed. It was very cool to watch.
Today is a rest day on my trek to Mount Olympus so no updates on that front.
In the meantime here’s some Music by one of my favorite Artists.
Have you been flipping your mattress over every month? Or if you have a pillow top - turning it around? If your mattress is over 5 years old and was not built for “endurance” you could very easily need a new one!
My first mattress was a pillow top and I faithfully rotated every four months. It got crushed during the move to my home and I got a new one. This one is also a pillow top of sorts and I’ve rotated it several times. It doesn’t make a difference because I think the problem is now the box spring. The slates in the box are cracked.
I put some plywood on top and that really didn’t help because the mattress had already gone south.
So I’ve been sleeping on the edge of the mattress until I can find a replacement.
I got to work today at 6:30am and got all my grading done. There was no one here and it was beautiful. 8^)
Yeah- I think you need a new mattress. This one could be why you are not sleeping better.
I also meant to comment on what a neat full moon experience gifted to you-
Yeah, that was cool. It’s amazing how big deer really are when you see them up close. They are also very quiet. 8^)
What I really want to see are the wild turkey that live in this area. People laugh when I tell them this but when I first moved here I saw a gaggle of about six turkeys standing next to a barbed wire fence. They stood taller than the fence. They were huge! Some say I was drunk or they were Emus and I don’t know what I’m talking about. But I tell you these birds were five feet tall if they were a foot. I kept a camera in my car for the longest time to get a picture but didn’t see them again - until last year. I saw three of them by the fence racing into the forest. I didn’t have a camera. 8^(
I have never seen a wild turkey in Florida. I have seen a lot of them in NC and TN and did have a camera- all the photos are a blurr of dark feathers. They ARE fast! Alan thinks you saw Ostriches on the loose:) But a male wild turkey can get darn big!