Terri - No Multi-tasking, No checking emails, texting! Wow - That Felt Good!

Part 2:  When you are working on the things you need for survival - that's pretty much all you can focus on.  Building the shelter, building what you need for a fire and fire itself, safe drinking water, and food.  Despite my overall physical exhaustion from our survival training experience - my head felt refreshed!!  I didn't think about work - constantly checking email, etc.  I only thought about what the tasks I needed to do.  When I did have time to think about other things, I thought about how grateful I was to have this opportunity and share it with my 360 MA team.

In part 1 of my blog - I tried to capture some of the first day priorities, shelter, fire, water.  The only food we were able to find, were a few ripe blackberries and pine nuts!  We found some big slugs, but we didn't go there!!

So now the sun was setting, we started our fires at each of the shelters.  I had brought many layers of clothing and the night time temperature was high 50's .... so ... I thought no problem.  We didn't gather that much wood to burn.  We thought we'd let it burn down and we'd be cozy in our little shelter..... OMG.  Wrong!!  It was so nice to start with, but once we let the fire burn down, we started shivering.  Laying on the bed of pine needles was not comfortable to say the least!  BKJN Pat & I started uncontrollably laughing at the absurdity of it all!  I wanted to go to sleep, but that wasn't happening.  So, we were able to revive the fire with a few embers and that became the night.  Staring into the red glow of the fire and watching the flames dance and die away signaling time to add more wood.  We realized we were in for a long, long night!!  We were getting low on stockpiled wood.... fortunately, KJN Paul and Virgil came into our camp about 1:30 am with arms full of wood resupplying our stock pile! What a blessing!  It was so good to see them! So now, with enough wood to last the night, we just kept feeding the fire and keeping it under control.  It felt so good to have the warmth.  For me, that went on through the night -

Ah - daybreak - FINALLY!  The birds began to stir, woodpeckers were knocking on dead trees, everything was coming to life.  I started to recognize my exhaustion and how much my back hurt!!