Real Life
An important part of The Mule Deer Project is keeping it real. When we began this project David and I talked about having me share some of my everyday life to provide a taste of the nitty gritty of this undertaking. What is the day to day routine like, how am I preparing, what am I doing etc. Honestly, it's very difficult to manage the demands of me and my time while allowing the amount of time I need/want to put into this project. But I'm getting there and I know I'll have to make some lifestyle changes along the way. Let me explain by recapping my last 7 days.
When I'm home, I try to spend early morning hours 4:30-5:15 am and late hours 11 pm to midnight doing "project" computer work. When I'm not home and have service, I try to keep up on my iPhone. Answering emails, texting, blogging on Rokslide and product research. Last Thursday-Saturday was at a family reunion with in-laws, travel time 3 hours round trip. Saturday for 1/2 the day was with my family. Saturday afternoon another of my daughters got the stomach flu (She passed out at 3:30am...scary). Saturday night home about midnight. Sunday morning 2 hours to unpack while family slept and husband was down with stomach flu. Off to church & a meeting afterwards. Home to pack for 2 day 4-H camp with youngest daughter, left early Monday morning. Survived 4-H camp and babysitting 4 young girls. Home Tuesday evening just in time to shop for some last minute supplies for my two older daughters 40+ mile Trek. Tended my chores and garden. To bed after midnight. Wednesday up at 4:30 am to get the two oldest off by 5:45am and husband off to Denver for 3 days. Chores and Rokslide. Load the horses and drive 1 1/2 hours to take in-laws cows to the forest. Youngest daughter and I rode 6 1/2 hours, drove 1 1/2 hours home, chores then Rokslide. Thursday morning Crossfit at 5:30 am. Spent the day at home catching up on household duties and paperwork until 4 pm. Off to church to sew a project and grocery shop afterward. Pick up daughter from friends house, chore, garden and Rokslide. Friday usual morning routine then took youngest daughter on an ATV ride. Home by 4:30pm more Rokslide then chores and mowed the lawn, water garden and greet husband with smiling face when he returned home from Denver
Tomorrow will be baling and hauling hay in the morning and very excited to see my older two daughters in the afternoon. Sunday, church and I'm hoping for a hike.
Les and I have been corresponding on the nutrition end of things. He has recommended that I eat every 3 hours. As you can see, that is a bit difficult. For example, Wednesday the day we rode for cows my eating schedule went like this... 4:30 am got up, 8:30 ate toast, 3 pm ate lunch and 9 pm ate supper and I'm not skinny, why? I'll let Les explain how the body reacts to infrequent feeding/over feeding. Honestly, the nutrition part of this project is going to be one of the hardest elements but one of the most important. If I can't get my body to the top of the mountain there won't be any slinging arrows at a nice buck.
I am super excited to get the bow setup and get shooting. Will be taking a road trip to Denver next weekend. This will be the first time I've met David Long and Evan Williams in person, I'm stoked for that. I'm also anxious to get some miles in the Kenetrek boots and Prois clothing. The equipment list is in the works and David will be posting soon.
Robby, I'm looking forward to meeting you and testing on Monday morning. The results will be an eye opener I'm sure and a good starting point to measure progress by. Like Les says, "Better today than yesterday."
Fun Fact: We have 37915 miles on a truck we bought in July 2011!
