the ups and the downs...

I guess it's natural...normal...to have up and downs....I haven't felt this physically fit in a long time yet I'm feeling a little blue...under the weather.....actually I think the weather has a lot to do with it. Particularly the lack of heat.

Just when I'm about to put away all my winter gear and rain gear because the weather is getting warmer the weather goes and changes over and over again lol....you'd think i'd get used to it by now. So I'm keeping the hoody and the wind breaker close.

I was out at the Bog again today but to my total dismay I ran into the Beaver hunter. I asked him what he was doing here and he said he was hired by the township to cull the beaver population. Apparently the farmers in the area are upset because their fields are flooding. I asked if it was field of corn for feed or fields of corn for fuel.

He was laying out his traps....he had caught 13 beavers in all in two days. Also one poor muskrat and an otter were casualties of the traps. He also told me that as of next year he will no longer be allowed to catch and kill because the Bog will be a provincial park. I was puzzled. I thought it was now considered protected land.

I was all excited to show Vee the beaver damn.....so so sad.

I'm not going to let this go though...I will find out if it is protected land and if the township is illegally killing these poor beavers.

So now to try to get my groove back....lol....

I can't wait to start working in my garden....cleaning my pond and planting flowers....it's just that this in between time....this mucky gucky stinky time....so needed i know to help trees bud and plants grow. Thank goodness for the birds and the frogs...their songs make this time so bearable!

I can't wait to start my Zumba exercises - thanks Chris!. According to Dr. Oz I should be doing 60 minutes a week of high heart rate training. So 3 x 20 minutes a week is just the ticket I need. Along with my 30-60 minutes a day of walking...my yoga stretching and my daily weight lifting along with the Get lean video I am well on my way to being Xena lol!!