plan for Homer tomorrow again....

 

it's been my go to get a way since Covid began.  may add a day on in Seward after on the way back to break it up.  we shall see. if not i'll do a day trip out there before i head back to work, weather allowing. 

will have to see how tides and weather are for the days i'm on the Kenai. 

it's pretty safe, Covid wise, down there. i'm probably the biggest threat to them over them being a threat to me. my antigen test was negative which gives me some hope that the things i'm doing at work to keep safe are working. 

had a bit of an anxiety meltdown for a bit this morning.  was trying t find things and there are just too many bits of paper all over and it made me a bit nuts.  still working on a major paper purge.  piles of crap just start to weigh you down and you have to go on a rampage...at least i do.  

ended up just taking the dogs on a local walk.  when i was done freaking about all the papers it had started to rain or look rainy so i wasn't in the mood to drive to Seward today in the rain.  instead i have focused on picking up crap.  

my friend LS came by with her power tools and helped me get this cute little shelf up.  we abandoned the original plan in the downstairs bathroom for fear of hitting a pipe.  we put the shelf upstairs. still need to put crap away in the downstairs bathroom and organize these new shelves.  they look good. 

yesterday i met up with SH for some moose spotting out at Powerline Pass.  not sure where all the photographers were but we saw at least 18 moose.  some big guys.  not tons of moose on moose action but enough moose to keep us entertained. i first walked the pups on the gasline/powerline/tank and then settled them in at home and walked without them. 

that gave me about 22,000 steps for the day.  i was in bed early and slept well. 

nothing like miles of walking to help with the sleep.  

i'll have to do a wee bit of packing this evening in preparation for the drive to Homer. i'm committed. 

i'd like to re-organize my little office.  i have to get rid of the cardboard table that has been here since WARIS began.  this was the reason for the paper meltdown. shredding paper is always theraputic for me. 

these are still fall colors from Independence Mine and that fun week of hikes in the fall colors.  got a lot of great shots that week.  perhaps next week i will take some time and get the Christmas Card/Calendar done. i'm behind schedule really. 

the fall colors are pretty much gone here in the Anchorage bowl. i suspect the Kenai will be well past as well. i have found myself moving toward the next season...looking for ice formations.

we are getting some ice in the mornings.  the dog poop is starting to be frozen...which is fabulous! 

Ivy limps after walks a bit but overall seems to be managing.  on our walks she mostly just carries her tennis ball.  they are just happy to be out and about.  not sure how Homer and the beaches will be.  surely will either limp a lot or totally do her knee in i guess. 

no wildlife spotted on the walks in North Bivouac this week, which is fine. i'm good skipping the close up sightings on walks. the dogs have still never met a bear on the trail.  we were pretty close the other day on Potter Creek but thankfully the pups and i never saw it. 

there is a video of a runner in Utah being stalked/charged by a mountain lion.  death by mountain lion would be gruesome.  there was a lot of swearing...someone on one post wasn't happy with the swearing...clearly she's never had a wild animal chase her down.  there is swearing!!  i would have been swearing.  

there were also those who wanted to give their opinion on what the guy should have done.  Monday morning quarterbacking on these types of situations is silly.  give the guy a  break. you do what you do in those situations.  sometimes it works/other times you die.  since i had a bear trying to get in my car with me...i give folks a lot of breaks for how they react to things.  when it gets right down to it...that is what you do in a crisis. you react.  there is a lot going on and you react to it.  easier to look at it later or from the outside and judge it. the guys alive, the mountain lion is alive. i'd say it went as well as can be expected.

the new judge will be sworn in.  she's being pushed through and she knows it. she's getting pushed through in hopes she will follow their political agenda and she knows that as well.  don't see anyway she doesn't get confirmed...the GOP is in control.  it's just further proof that they never had ethics/values or morals...it was always about getting their way. thinking their way is the only right way and feeling that they could and should do anything and everything to get their way....it doesn't matter that the vast majority of the population doesn't agree with them.  they believe they are doing Gods work...so much for separation of church and state. they never have really believed that. 

their religious convictions and their agenda are pushed on us all.  don't tell us how to live but we will tell you all how to live. 

people are voting in record numbers.  hope that Biden wins by a large margin...it's the only way forward i think.  close and it will be met with violence...it may be met with violence anyway. trump has not said he'd step down...he will never believe the results.  

i will miss the colors of fall...soon we will be a sea of white.  not sure when though.  it's creeping down the mountains.

trump only knows how to speak to a crowd of conspiracy theorists.  it's like the rest of us don't exist, never have in his presidency.  his followers love that.  they want to pretend the rest of the citizens don't exist either so they can plow forward with their own agenda disregarding any one else's opinions or thoughts.  that is how it is when you believe God loves you more than everyone else.  God doesn't really chose sides i think.  i hope we are judged in the end by our own lives, by our intentions.  

i've always been one to see things as how they were intended.  sometimes people are cruel and hurtful but their intentions were not to be cruel and hurtful.  for me, i take that into consideration.  

when i have more liberal views i have never intended to seed hatred towards those who have different views...i just had different views.  i have found that many on the right are angry and do wish make liberals pay for winning on some big ticket items, like gay marriage, womens rights, rights for minorities, rights for immigrants, environment...many items. the left wins these because the majority has come to believe that they are best for all of us.  it wasn't to be mean to the right.  it was just to be just and fair to all. they took it personal and are now enjoying having a bully like trump on their side to give it to those that they feel have wronged them personally.  

i recall one brother saying that now that trump was in office he would be free to practice his religion...when i called him out by asking what had he not been able to do for the past 8 years that Obama was in...he drew a blank.  spitting out their rhetoric is easier when you don't have to answer to it. Christianity is still there.  they are still free to practice their religion.  

my day to day life hasn't changed dramatically...but i see that things have changed for others, for minorities.  that things are worse for many around me.  many forget...we live in a society.  it's not always about Me..it's about us.  we fight for all because it's about all....what is best for the majority.  together we stand, divided we fall. 

the right wants us divided.  they claim to be patriots but a true patriot thinks of all Americans not just the ones that have your exact same beliefs. 

almost time for more purging of papers.  just thought i'd take a blog break. 

our mayor is resigning after some sexual impropriety with a news lady? it happens no matter the party affiliation.  pride cometh before a fall...power brings a bit more confidence and cockiness but it often leads to a down fall.  

trump backed out of the next debates.  he said it was because the debate committee wanted to do live stream over having both candidates in same room...since Trump had Covid.  i suspect he backed out more because he did so horrible at the last one.  we shall see if he returns for the third one.  i don't need any convincing.  

just read his twitter tirades.  the guys is addicted to his phone and social media.  he is exactly who falls prey to these forums.  he's into the Qanon conspiracies.  he and this administration are examples of what happens when you fall for conspiracies and forget about facts.  

it may be that many wake up one day when this is all over shocked as the facts actually come to light in their world..if they ever do.  at this moment.  they see Trump as nearly saintly.  he ain't no saint.

i'll be walking in the woods....it's what i do.  the election is not far off.  we can early vote here, which i plan to do.  

the right is working hard to make it tough for folks to vote but they are lining up and waiting as long as it takes.  i am proud of many of my fellow citizens who are being the most challenged in this election. who have the most walls put up but are still making it happen.  you are the true patriots.  a true patriot would never try to hinder voting of their fellow citizens.  a true patriot wants those voices heard. 

the republican party is screaming as they fall down the well. it makes them sound loud, all that echoing. be not afraid...the well is deep and their voices will eventually be drowned out. 

the plane gives some perspective. 

not sure i'll have many stops on the drive to Homer.  we shall see. not sure i've ever headed down there this late.

more papers to shred, more crap to clear out, some packing to do. 

the pups will be thrilled to be down there. i think tide will be going out as the sun sets.  

may have to wake up early for the low tide in the  morning. 

it's been a strange year and a tumultuous 4 years.  

i think many just want a return to some normalcy, some calmness.  some stoppage of the crazy tweets and crazy wanna be king that has been residing in the white house.  sad that his name will forever be associated with that office. he doesn't deserve the honor. he never did. 

a Presidential Library?  for a guy who can't be bothered to even read his most basic daily briefings...what a joke! it will just have reams of all his crazy tweets and hopefully a large section on how the con man was eventually made to pay for his life of deviousness. 

maybe i can drop off papers tomorrow on my way out of town for the shelter. 

enjoy your day.  bundle up, it's getting chilly out there.

thankful for A.  good friends  B. getting organized  C. purging the crap.  it feels good.  i've a long ways to go though.