Day 1, Start Off

Even though this was  a hard day, there was a good omen that happened to me today. While I was looking for mushrooms and mullein, I saw a long tailed weasel. The first one I have ever seen behind our house. I stood there, watching it, and it slowly came closer and closer, to within a foot of me. Then it ran off to a nearby log where it stood on its hind legs, and I saw that it had a vole in its mouth. It just stood there for a while and looked at me, and than it ran into the bushes.

It is way harder than I expected. I have been continuously hungry all day, I am not sure if I am making it up, or if I am really hungry. All I can think about is how good regular food would taste right now. I am especially missing granola bars, granola and peanut butter. What a surprise, I don't even eat that much granola and peanut butter. It just seems so easy to pull out a bowl and fill it with granola.

Here is what I ate instead:
Breakfast: Trout with sea salt (that I harvested by evaporating sea water)
Mid morning I went outside and ate mountain ash berries (which were supposed to improve in flavor after frost. It did, which made them ALMOST edible), yarrow leaves, dandelion leaves, plantain leaves and a little bit of chickweed. It left me far from being full.
Lunch: Salmon with plum sauce which was actually very good. I was so hungry that I gobbled it up really fast.
Dinner: Salmon again, just with salt. I ate that with a wild greens salad that had some salmon and huckleberries. I also had mullein tea.

Right now it is 8:30 and I still have a tiny gnawing edge of hunger in the pit of my stomach. I was a little lost today and didn't do enough planning. Tomorrow is looking brighter, I am going to make chicken soup and try some cattail flour pancakes.