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It's okay everyone. I've returned to save the world again, and you can stop panicking now.
Oops, sorry. Got my livejournal confused with the script for my work-in-progress "Miriam Saves the Universe......again......like usual."
Anyway, i am back as it so happens. Seems like Josh and i have been dashing all over creation for the last month or so. A week in Arkansas followed by Thanksgiving week in West Virginia with my fam (which went well ie: no-one got shot), then back to Tulsa for four days until the weather got so nasty that Josh wasn't working so we left early and headed back to Arkansas for another week at the hunting camp a couple days ahead of schedule. And now we're back again.
Had an awesome experience while at the hunting camp. I was out hunting by myself (yes, they allowed me out in the woods by myself with a loaded firearm and everything) and was twiddling my little camouflage-clad thumbs and waiting for something shootable to take a terminal stroll past my tree stand. And then about 200 yards off in the distance beyond the clearing, several trees and a stand of chest-height bamboo cane, i noticed something dark moving. So i took a peek through the scope on my rifle and my eyes just about popped out of my head when i realised it was a bear. Then i realised it was two bears. And then i realised it was actually three bears. (And before anyone asks, no chairs got broken or porridge sampled in the course of these events.) A mama bear and two cubs who promptly found my trail through the cane and followed it all the way through to the clearing where i was sitting in my stand. The cubs soon found an apple i had tossed out of the stand while hunting the day before and were tussling over it. Mama-bear on the other hand walked right up to the food of the stand, put her front foot on the bottom rung of the ladder and looked up at me under the stand skirting. Her nose was only about seven feet from mine. I could have dropped my other apple and bounced it off her head. I'd been giving Josh the play-by-play via walkie-talkie the whole time and at this point he's on the radio saying "Sweetheart, if she tries to climb the ladder you know you have to shoot her or something." (I was more in favour of the "or something" option.) After a minute Mama-bear blinks at me and wanders back over to her cubs and the three of them mooch around in the clearing and then down at the lake behind me never farther than about 40 yards from the stand for at least an hour. It was really amazing; I felt like i was in a nature documentary on PBS. In all his years of hunting Josh has only ever even seen a bear from a deer stand once so he was little jealous when on my fourth solo hunting excursion i had a family of them practically in my lap.
In other news, i had my first ultrasound this morning. Apparently i'm about 11 and half weeks along and due around July 3rd. Still don't know the gender but i can tell you it was a pretty trippy experience looking at the ultrasound monitor and seeing my baby's arms moving and hear his/her heartbeat for the first time. Very humbling experience in a way. Good thing Josh had to work and couldn't be there or he probably would have stopped breathing and fallen over. Or have just sat there with an huge idiotic grin on his face. My neighbour Jean came with me though since she's my adopted mom down here. She was excellent as a substitute mother: held my hand and cried and everything.
Ok, so that's pretty much what's going on here right now. Pregnancy still making me a little sick from time to time but nowhere near as bad as it was a few weeks ago.
Ta-ta for now!
~Miriam.
Oops, sorry. Got my livejournal confused with the script for my work-in-progress "Miriam Saves the Universe......again......like usual."
Anyway, i am back as it so happens. Seems like Josh and i have been dashing all over creation for the last month or so. A week in Arkansas followed by Thanksgiving week in West Virginia with my fam (which went well ie: no-one got shot), then back to Tulsa for four days until the weather got so nasty that Josh wasn't working so we left early and headed back to Arkansas for another week at the hunting camp a couple days ahead of schedule. And now we're back again.
Had an awesome experience while at the hunting camp. I was out hunting by myself (yes, they allowed me out in the woods by myself with a loaded firearm and everything) and was twiddling my little camouflage-clad thumbs and waiting for something shootable to take a terminal stroll past my tree stand. And then about 200 yards off in the distance beyond the clearing, several trees and a stand of chest-height bamboo cane, i noticed something dark moving. So i took a peek through the scope on my rifle and my eyes just about popped out of my head when i realised it was a bear. Then i realised it was two bears. And then i realised it was actually three bears. (And before anyone asks, no chairs got broken or porridge sampled in the course of these events.) A mama bear and two cubs who promptly found my trail through the cane and followed it all the way through to the clearing where i was sitting in my stand. The cubs soon found an apple i had tossed out of the stand while hunting the day before and were tussling over it. Mama-bear on the other hand walked right up to the food of the stand, put her front foot on the bottom rung of the ladder and looked up at me under the stand skirting. Her nose was only about seven feet from mine. I could have dropped my other apple and bounced it off her head. I'd been giving Josh the play-by-play via walkie-talkie the whole time and at this point he's on the radio saying "Sweetheart, if she tries to climb the ladder you know you have to shoot her or something." (I was more in favour of the "or something" option.) After a minute Mama-bear blinks at me and wanders back over to her cubs and the three of them mooch around in the clearing and then down at the lake behind me never farther than about 40 yards from the stand for at least an hour. It was really amazing; I felt like i was in a nature documentary on PBS. In all his years of hunting Josh has only ever even seen a bear from a deer stand once so he was little jealous when on my fourth solo hunting excursion i had a family of them practically in my lap.
In other news, i had my first ultrasound this morning. Apparently i'm about 11 and half weeks along and due around July 3rd. Still don't know the gender but i can tell you it was a pretty trippy experience looking at the ultrasound monitor and seeing my baby's arms moving and hear his/her heartbeat for the first time. Very humbling experience in a way. Good thing Josh had to work and couldn't be there or he probably would have stopped breathing and fallen over. Or have just sat there with an huge idiotic grin on his face. My neighbour Jean came with me though since she's my adopted mom down here. She was excellent as a substitute mother: held my hand and cried and everything.
Ok, so that's pretty much what's going on here right now. Pregnancy still making me a little sick from time to time but nowhere near as bad as it was a few weeks ago.
Ta-ta for now!
~Miriam.