So, talk about it being a small world, Karen and I were eating dinner in a restaurant down in Redding the other night and I see this guy who looks like somebody I used to know. I kept looking at him and the more I did the more he looked like Bill Lachenmyer who was a District Ranger at Laufman way back in the early 80’s. Low and behold, he and his wife had taken the booth right next to us so I went over and asked him if his name was Bill and of course it was. I haven’t seen him since well before I retired but he really looked the same. We met his wife and talked about old times and had a nice impromptu visit pretty much blocking the aisle. Anyway what were the chances we would run into anyone we knew who worked in Milford back when we did? Who woulda thunk?
Yesterday Karen was in her H&R Block meeting so I decided to take a walk over in Jones Valley on the Clickapudi Trail. It was all foggy and cold but I walked at a brisk pace and kept fairly warm. It was nice to get out and stretch my legs and see what the lake was looking like. Here’s a couple of pictures I took back in the head of Clickapudi creek canyon.
It never got all that warm down there in Redding yesterday and there was a high fog layer over the whole valley that we didn’t get out of until we drove back up Highway 36 out of Red Bluff. Still it was nice for a change of pace and I had a great walk out on that trail. And getting to see an old colleague was icing on the cake.
