At
this time of year I am back and forth to the boat for spring fit-up, so I spend
an hour and a half each boat day running the roads.
Is
it just me, or have the crows really become much more blasé about traffic on
the highway? Yesterday a couple of big
ones were worrying a road kill right on the centre stripe – and they didn’t
move as my big white 15-seater van bore down on them at highway speeds. Not even a half-hearted start toward the
shoulder: they just stood there. And when I passed, they were back to lunch
with barely a ruffled feather.
I
figure these must be old crows that have ‘been there, done that’ – why waste
energy? They have adapted to traffic.
And that got me thinking there is a lesson here for me.
I
too need to adapt more and more these days.
I’m over seventy, and for some reason (!) even simple boat projects now
seem to take a lot longer and require more effort.
Take
spring fit-up. I’ve done this for over
20 years, so you’d think I’d have it down pat by now. But each spring it takes more out of me. I don’t have the energy I used to.
Maybe
I need to adapt to the new reality and work smarter – spend more time planning,
more time noting all the steps to complete a project, more time staging the
gear, supplies and tools I need so I don’t get to the boat minus the one thing
I need to complete the job without delay.
The
nice thing is I can do a lot of this sitting down – and that saves energy!
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