Geeze, I was turned onto Cliff’s thread by a certain anonymous LSC friend. It almost read like a eulogy. . .I teared up. . .I was almost sure I had joined the dearly departed.
But alas I am alive and kicking. Just very distracted by my many other passions. . .and a bit of problems. But other than to say I am back to discussing my head with the docs there really doesn’t need anything else to be said.
What I have been up too is hiking, cooking, working on the house, work, and playing with the grandkids.
Gold lake
Trail to Beehive lake.
Granite rock face, part of the trail to Beehive lake.
Part of the trail just before the lake is just a granite rock slope only marked by rock piles to reassure you that you are not lost.
Pepper on the hot trail to Beehive
Sunday morning wake up view from the hammock
another picture of Beehive
Bonzi? Wish I could mimic that sort of thing on my layout. This would be a perfect little tree.
Pepper and i hit three mountain lakes this summer. Fishing and sitting by the fire and sleeping in my hammock with my best doggy friend. Thats true comfort.
I also bought a pitboss pellet grill flat top combo. Love that thing. Been cooking and smoking and grilling. Got back into making sausage and cured meats. New to me is dry curing meat. Made cappocolla and pancetta for the first time. I am currently brining pork neck (coppa) to make basically Canadian bacon. Will be making jalapeño cheese smokies and summer sausage soon.
Also resided the front of the house to match the side where my layout is. We slowly are making our way around the house adding an inch of foam insulation and board and batten siding with cedar shakes in the peaks. Also brought the excavator home from work and dug out a weed infested front flower bed and are putting down weed block and 18inches deep of rock to form a weed proof dryscape. It will have a small creek and pond and a few flowers and shrubs in pots with drip irrigation. Trying to make the yard more maintenance friendly. Also tore out a dead/dying tree.
So I have been distracted but am very much alive
