Last night begged the question as to whether you can get up early if you don't really go to sleep at night. Lisa and I took turns all night long dealing with Merrick and he finally won at 5 am and I just stayed up with him. We started our day very early, and with the moon nearly full we headed outside to look at the brightness of the moon and as I was showing him the constellation Orion we had the great pleasure of watching a shooting star brightly cross our line of sight. I made my standard wish that I bestow on all shooting stars and then we headed off for some early morning grocery shopping. He and I learned several things about grocery shopping at 5:30 am. First the cashiers are not that happy to be there. Secondly trying to buy a twelve pack first gets you a hairy-eyeballed look from the grumpy cashier and then a refusal to sell until eight o'clock. The other thing we discovered is that us and the cashiers were not the only ones doing some early morning shopping. There were also two other guys with very 'mussy' hair and huge bouquets of flowers--Merrick didn't think they made it home last night and I didn't think the flowers were enough to prevent what is likely to become a very long weekend for them.
The weekend outside time will be a limited to the yard, as we have spent so many of the last weekends out in the woods that it is time to give attention to the domestic chores required by a yard in the fall. There is likely to be some yard raking and garden preping followed by a small campfire and hot chocolate.
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