Everyone excels at a few things in life, when it comes to eating and sleeping I am usually in top form. Only occasionally do I suffer from insomnia. I am suffering from it right now. Generally speaking, I have two forms of true insomnia, worrying and going to bed too early, this bout can be attributed to the latter. I was absolutely whipped last night and went to bed at 9pm. Generally when that happens I wake up at 2am, true to form I was wide eyed precisely at 2 this morning. I am a 7 hour man minimum, if I don't get 7 hours of sleep I am not worth anything, knowing that I tried for an hour to go back to sleep. Not a chance. Never mind the fact after lunch I can fall asleep at the drop of the hat, in bed in the dark no matter what I did, not a hint of drowsiness. So, knowing full well I will suffer later today, I got up and turned on the TV, and logged onto the net. All the things one can learn in the middle of the night. RFD TV has your Country Channel programming on in the wee hours of the morning here, I learned about the Ryedale show 2008, and Open Farm Sunday. At the moment, a very pleasant woman is peeling a pear on CC TV. On the internet at this early hour I learn Farmers Weekly will be late courtesy of a postal strike(given our current atmosphere of cost cutting and the criticism of our post office if things are at all the same over the Atlantic I would think striking not to be a very prudent move on the part of the employees of Royal Mail) and that the arctic ice will be totally gone in 20 years time, more cause for alarm over global warming as our crops stand barely ripening in the field while our temps are 20F below normal highs. Now, the pleasant woman on the TV is mixing rolled oats with the pears, and making a "flapjack" topping, I presume she is making a UK version of a cobbler of sorts, given the fact I am not giving her my undivided attention I would not be able to recreate this dish for Mrs. KF, if not for the fact I am recording it.
I have also been able to catch the early weather forecast, cloudy today, fog right now, clearing for Friday and Saturday but rain again Saturday night. It seems unlikely the combine will move much this weekend, that might lead to the worrying type of insomnia, I honestly am surprised that hasn't set in already. We have now moved onto Horse and Country TV from the UK, lots of folks talking about horses, without a doubt that will put me back to sleep.