A new idea
Looking at the weather report, Yuma, Arizona, would be a great place to be. While it's freezing cold here in the Tombstone area, in Yuma, it will be in the 70s in the daytime and 40s at night, which is just about perfect.
Another good thing is the "Big Show" in Quartzsite, Arizona, starts on the 18th, and about a week before that, boondockers will be pouring into Quartzsite, where they will pack the town until the "Big Show" is over on the 26th. This is great because that mostly clears out a lot of the nearby boondocking areas as they all leave for Quartzsite, abandoning places like Yuma, which is about 100 miles away from Quartzsite, where I'll be able to stay in the peace and quiet of one of my favorite boondocking areas devoid of the usual crowds at the VFW boondocking area.
I think I just had a good idea. Remember how I always say I try to make things as easy on myself as possible, or they simply won't get done... because I'm lazy?
I've got video clips from three different locations that I have yet to turn into an actual video, and that puts a lot of pressure on me to get things done. The stress of all those random pieces of video lying on my computer, instead of making me want to finish them, reminds me of how lazy I am and makes me want to keep putting off doing anything.
So, I figure there must be a better way to put together my videos quicker and post them on the blog so that instead of worrying about them every time I see them, I can post them and forget about them. Because whatever I'm doing now is not working.
But an idea came to me today that I'm hoping will solve the video problem. I know it will be the lazy man's way out, but I am lazy, and it is a way out. I’ll write about my new idea tomorrow.
Theboondork
These three pictures all make me sad. Spending as much time as I do watching and taking pictures of these various birds, I've learned a little something about their habits, and the saddest habit of all is how they choose to die.
These three birds, this duck, a snow goose, and the Sandhill Crane are dying and only have a day or two left to live. How do I know that? There are several ways to tell, but the easiest way is... They're all alone.
Snow geese live in gigantic flocks. They’re born in a nest around thousands of other birds and spend their whole life eating, sleeping, and living with thousands of their own kind. And for some strange reason known only to them, when they know there dying, they walk, or they swim away from the group they were born with, get off by themselves, and in a few days, they die alone.
There are other clues this snow goose has made his last migration. He’s not feeding, he’s dirty, snow geese are always white from top to bottom and there’s not another snow goose on the entire lake, just him.
And it's the same for this Sandhill Crane. He's all alone; He’s scruffy looking, and the red patch on his head has all but faded away, which is a sign of old age for Sandhill cranes.
Why do they do this? They spend their whole life never more than a few feet away from thousands of other cranes, but in their final moments, something compels these birds to leave the flock they've spent their whole life with and die alone.
How do they know their dying? Somehow, they can tell because I've seen them do this several times. I'll see some kind of a waterfowl standing on the shore alone, and a day or two later, they're dead. There dying doesn't really bother me, it's the fact that they choose to die alone that I don't understand.