warm day made for a lazy day...

 

not sure why some days are just harder to get motivated than others. it was warm and sunny so that should make me rush outside to pretty places. instead i just wanted to chill. 

these are in Hatchers Pass. always a pretty place to go.  had i been more motivated today perhaps i could have ended up here again. 

lots of yard time with the dogs...and one Covid Cat.

i had an appointment for the CR-V this morning so i headed there to get the trim fixed and drop off one of the tires to be made into a full spare. i also arranged to get new lights in the dash for the Element.  it would be nice to see how fast i'm driving once winter hits and it's all dark.

now that the car is functioning it seemed like a good idea to fix this as it was on my list before the engine went out. 

isn't this little guy cute. 

never made it out for a real walk though.  poor pups. they are so tolerant of me.  i pulled some weeds and put in several of the button things on the stairs.  many more to go.  i may do a bit of stencil work. i like to combine actual work with play work.  gotta keep my art side happy. 

all work and no fun is not something that works very well.  still plugging away at the little piles of things that collect.  need to look at the weather.  should have put some stuff out with the free sign this weekend.  

did chat for awhile with my niece in Texas. always fun...and enlightening.  she is wise.  :-) 

Covid Cat just ran in from outside.  seemed in a bit of a rush.  

watched a runner today.  she fell and was in last and just booked right back to the front of the pack to win.  then i saw her race again and win again.  some people are just crazy fast.  i was never any good at running.  

of course, my early memories of attempting to run in my neighborhood in L.A. are of a guy pulling over to "ask for directions" while jerking off. oh i was so innocent back in those days...and i got flashed more than the average person i'm sure of it.  i recall being in college and we were at McDonalds and a flasher showed up. i knew exactly what was up.  they were all shocked..i was just shocked that they all weren't getting flashed as much as i was. not sure what vibe i put out there that made men flash me, but there it is. 

now i just see naked bodies all the time.  i suppose even if someone flashed me now i'd hardly notice.  perhaps all that flashing was to prepare me for a career as a nurse. 

it is getting darker earlier.  that is how it works.  we start to think about northern lights though.  there is always something to look forward to. 

up north i am hearing that the catapillars we saw at Byers are actually extremely abundant.  if you hike up more you will be "attacked" by them.  if you sit they are on you.  folks are complaining of getting rashes where they touch.  i never touched them thankfully.  there were a few crawling on stuff we left outside, but in higher elevations there were hundreds of them. i guess they tend to have population explosions every so often and these explosions will happen for 2-3 years. so K'suegi Ridge/Curry Ridge may be out for a few years

speaking of bugs, one just dropped down on me.  not sure what it was or where it went. i just looked in the mirror and i do not see it on me at this time. i am not a fan of bugs.  for as many mosquito's we have up here...at least each year the bugs  almost completely disappear for over half of the year.

will be disturbed by the thought of some bug crawling around the rest of the night now.  

back to work tomorrow again.  just far too many idiots out there who will refuse to believe Covid is real to their death. i've heard people deny they have it even when they are symptomatic. the level of stupid that exists is beyond embarrassing.  

who knew people could be so easy to manipulate. it just makes some historical things that seemed impossible more possible sounding. 

guess i foolishly believed with all the information that is out there these days finding the truth would be easy...but for many they refuse to believe anything from anyone who isn't in their same toxic and ridiculous bubble.  those people just have to be loud and scare them...and they will believe anything.  fear is a great motivator for idiocy. when people do not understand stuff, or are overwhelmed they want to have someone and something else to blame...at this point they are willing to buy into whatever crazy notion you push on them just so they can blame someone else. 

bug found and killed!!

i'm not totally convinced that there is only the one bug.

the rocks have been modge podged.  i'm liking to do two layers now so i'll let this one dry. not sure the rock grinder i bought survived the first round...never made it to the end.  it keeps stopping when i try to restart it.  that was quick.  

won't replace it...seemed like a fun little hobby though. 

is there an olympic medal for procrastination?  i'd be a star for sure.

came on to tweak the first paragraph i wrote in the last post.  it seemed to make no sense when i re-read it later. 

it was late at night. 

the Dems are still trying to work with the GOP...seems fairly pointless. wish they could get the filibuster at least tweaked.  sick of nothing getting done.  the GOP is a disaster.  a party of conspiracies and lies and people who are addicted to those conspiracies and lies. 

always love the cotton.  i was reading that you could eat it? not sure i'm willing to try that out.  didn't read what part you would eat in a crisis. hopefully i am never put in a position of having to survive on this plant, though i really do like the look of it out there.

starting to feel like another trek to Nome would be fun one of these days. so many beaches.  love all those big stretches of beaches.  miles and miles of beach combing....empty. 

pretty flowers...

you chase them and then you chase the mushrooms, the fall and then you chase the ice.  that is just how it goes here. blink and it's all changed.

never excited to head to work. i can't say as i was ever really excited to go to work as a nurse but i had made peace with it as a career. covid has really made it more miserable.  the staff do stick together. we try to support each other i think. it's going to get worse for sure because of the misinformation and refusal of so many to deal with the reality of this.  so many will refuse to vaccinate or wear masks or distance. they just move from one conspiracy to another in some sort of strange denial. 

so far the dogs are still safe. was thinking of starting a rumor that all you have to do to avoid covid is pick your nose and eat the snot...just put crazy shit out there and see what people do with it. they would rather take snake oil treatments than treatment plans derived over time for this. they have been convinced to not trust science, doctors, medicine, the cdc, the government at any level, any media that isn't bat shit crazy....they are boxed in. 

there is another segment of the population that isn't political about it all but have chosen to not look at any information at all.  it's going to be a slow painful trudge to herd immunity...if we ever get that. 

when will we need a booster. Israel is already giving a pfizer booster to those over 60 i hear.  at what point will we be offered boosters? that remains to be seen.  

the fall could be awful.  

comfy cat. he can be a bit of a snuggle cat.

these guys do need me to get them out more.  i've been too lazy and it's time to reboot and get myself back to basics. 

3 nights of work then another stretch off.  i live for the off times. work is just more exhausting than it used to be.  back to having to wear the n-95 more of the shift..or just leave it on. 

there is this cutie again.  there were two but the other one booked whereas this guy seemed more curious.

this was a between shift walk in the neighborhood....they are on leashes and harnesses.  they are not fans of the harness.  

it is much easier to walk them harnessed up though. 

this is the remnants of the beaver pond.  that middle green patch was the beaver den and just the green stuck out of the water before.

so this is Gold Mint Trail.  

still some swimable water where the beaver dam broke

and back on the main trail

well, hopefully i made more sense tonight.  i am headed to bed.  

thankful for A.  family and friends who like and accept me. B. people who get vaccinated and believe truth over conspiracies C. that the dogs could care less about any of it and just live each day.