Wednesday June 24th - morning

This morning the birds are chipring, loudly. They started at 4:30 am :-) The sun is just coming up and most of the clouds are gone. Thank you Jesus! It takes about a full hour and a half to get ready each morning. Getting tent, pad, sleeping bag rolled up, and everything packed in the right place and bungy corded on. Get water heated for coffee in the French press and oatmeal / flax prepared. I have to wash dishes too. I usually use the left over hot water, pour it in my bowl and scrape the oatmeal off with my fingernail, rinse with more hot water and there we have it (I'm sure it is sanitized). Never wash coffee stuff! Hey something new! For the last ten years I have not been able to stand on one foot for more than a second. That is why I always put my pants on sitting down. This morning, without thinking about it, I started putting my riding pants on standing up, to keep them from dragging in the dirt which they do when I am sitting down. I was about done when I realized that I had stood on one leg for at least 30 seconds! Wow. I tried it some more, just standing there, I could stand on one leg easy for a long time:-) I am not sure if it is sleeping on the ground, balancing on a bike all day, but my suspicions are that it is the flax seed:-) Well, we will see if my new physical skill lasts. Off I go for another day of trusting the Lord and seeing what happens.