All the cannonball splash jump practice at the river put me in need of a down day: too much fun and now the ears and back won't work for a day or two.. But it was still good to do a quick bike-ride down to the river with Maron: _The First Water is The Body_ . Even at 8AM it was too hot to be comfortable. I should have avoided doing on-lines stuff and rushed down at around 6 or so, but then I might have forgotten to hang the wash with the Silky Help..

She saw an old-farmer's K-truck in the distance ad thought a chance to play was coming up. When the guy finally came buy he ignored us but maybe I missed the eye contact opportunity being in the state where you need a few days to recover from the vacation...

I'll have to remember to visit this river, the watershed for the house more often. Maybe go early, before the heat. But that's a good time to get yard work done. Maybe just wait for the fall. I guess jumping into a nice little forested river serves the same sort of purpose but that beautiful river isn't quite in the immediate watershed where I live.. That water probably runs into the same OyodoGawa river that this Okimizu river runs into... Hmmm. I wonder what Natalie Diaz would say?

https://emergencemagazine.org/poem/the-first-water-is-the-body/

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#NatalieDiaz #TheFirstWaterIsTheBody

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I saw the sunrise, or hints of it, in spite of myself this morning. After remembering that I forgot to close the chicken cages for safety, I had to run out to see if they'd been eaten over the night. I think they all survived.. Unless one was taken from a brooding box and that's why the chicks and one hen were back over the eggs where there is usually one hen while the chicks and another hen are by the entrance... I'll have to look into it more later.. But it wasn't a nightmarish massacre of the sort you hear about, where all the cickens in the coop are laid out in a row with the blood drained out of their neckes.. So since I was out while it was still too dark for the chickens to come out and eat, I closed up their cages and went walking with Maron the Shiba Dog. We got down to the river and saw some pastel-colored clouds before the sun showed herself over the mountains... . #SunriseAlmost #PastelCoulds #SilkyChickens #烏骨鶏 #霧島 #沖水川 #三股町

Maron in Okimizu River... #MaronTheShiba #柴犬 #＃沖水川 #三股町沖水川

Kirishima and Crow and Egret, and river... and the mountains on the other side of our basin that feed our river... There's a big carp in the river that I sort of feel friendly toward, but also sort of want to spear or catch somehow and feed it to the dog, cats and birds... Conflicted, but not really... must be a way to reconcile the urges... #Kirishima #OkimizuRiver #霧島 #沖水川 #三股町霧島 #三股町沖水川

"Take me to the river, drop me in the water" --- Talking Heads re-make of some other interesting guy's song..
And let me me enjoy the mountains and sun's goings and comings along the way...
#三股町 #MimataTown #夕焼け小焼け #沖水川 #三股町沖水川 #新馬場公園

Maron the Shiba in Okimizu River, again.
There must be way that we could all protect our watersheds. All the watersheds, the land, the water, the life are unique, and equal in being unique and sacred... So we should band together to make sure nobody can destroy anybody else's watershed... The big elections are too twisted to make much sense of them, but if things were more direct and local...
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Maron the Shiba in Okimizu River, Mimata Town.
#MaronTheShiba #柴犬 #三股町 #沖水川 #三股町沖水川

Two ShiraSagi 白鷺 egret birds in Okimizu River with Kirishima Mountain looking over.

#OkimizuRiver #MimataTownOkimizuRiver #Kirishima #霧島 #三股町沖水川 #白鷺 #沖水川

In the evening of Holiday Monday, after some shopping (exhausting!!) and using the goods to try fencing the birds in (to keep them out of the road and the neighbors' lands), we got down to the big river for the first time in months. For months it was too hot to walk very far, out in the open to be baked in the plain at the bottom of this bowl... But it's nice now... And Maron jumped right back into the river...

#OkimizuRiver #MaronTheShiba #三股町沖水川 #沖水川 #柴犬