8 days to go!

Yep! 8 days and I'll not only get to start a new life in a new place, but more importantly I'll be able to be with the person I so am very much in love with. Sometimes I wonder how this happened. But then I don't want to over analyze a matter of the heart, it's not an intellectual thing even though it still is something I wonder about.

So yesterday I took a long walk around town going down some of the roads I was riding my bike on last summer and thinking this might be the last time I follow this route. It's a weird place for me to be in, being that I have lived here in this town for 37 years. Wow! Is that a long time or what? Doesn't seem that long to me but it is. One thing in life is really true, that change is inevitable. Sooner or later all things must pass and no matter how hard we try to keep things the same, it will most certainly change one way or another. I think the trick is to know when to resist change and when to embrace it. Guess which one of those I'm doing?

Nice drive!

I went over to Sloat today to visit with Chris. We sat a while out in the sun, which really felt nice. It was a warm day until later when the cloud cover moved in.

The drive over there was also quite low key and relaxing. I stopped in Greenville to see if the Thrift Store was open but it wasn't. There were a few icy spots on the road on the way over but they were all melted by the time I came back in the afternoon.

At one point Chris and I decided to go down to the gravel pit and see if the ice is off the pond. There are some nice bass in those ponds and they were almost completely ice free. Normally as soon as the ice comes off a body of water the bass seem to bite pretty good so I told Chris he should come and try it, but I don't know if he will. Anyway, while we were there we saw a Forest Service vehicle drive by. When they came back down the road they drove over to where we were and it turned out to be Rene' and Scott from Doyle. Funny how the chance meetings happen in life. I just saw those two the other day when I was out in Doyle so to run into them again out here was pretty coincidental.

Anyway, it was a nice day and a nice drive but going through Greenville made me miss Karen even more... if that's possible... 11 days to go, but down to only 10 tomorrow.

13 days to go

Yep! 13 days to go before I get to see Karen again. Oh yeah, I'm moving too but that's secondary to the important thing about that day. It's all in perspective.

We have had a bit of sunshine here in the last few days and I got out for a walk yesterday down to Rite Aide and back. I like to walk the river trail when I'm going from one end of town to the other and I did yesterday and even sat on one of the benches in the sun and ate a sandwich. It was a nice thing to do even though it was a little chilly from a north east breeze.

Talk about the little things. Well, I talk about the little things all the time it seems since they always turn into the big things when magnified by memory cells. Try as I might to live in the moment, I can't help longing for the day when I can spend time with the lady I love. 13 days... that's it and my life will be a better place for me to think in.

Sunny Day!

I went out to Linda's today to work on her cabinets and I stopped at the lumber yard to get the wood I need along the way, and they don't have it. So I head down the road to the other lumber yard. They don't have it either. Now all I'm looking for is about 4' of 1x2 red oak. Needless to say I didn't get to work on her cabinets and won't now since I am not going to Reno to get that wood. I'll have to resort to plan B. I'll get those damn things done yet.

So one good thing about today, actually a couple of them were that I got another load to the dump and got to visit with Stan and Elaine for a while. It was such a nice day that when I got back in town I decided to go walking up the Bizz. Some snow in places, kind of muddy and soft but still it was a great walk and was nice and warm in the sun. 15 days to go.

Vision board

Some time ago I was introduced to the movie "The Secret" and in it they suggest that you create what they call a "vision board" to start you on the road to making your dreams come true. That move is all about what I have always called the power of positive thinking and it's message is a good one for everyone whether you take their premise at face value or just take what applies to you.

Anyway, I never made a vision board because I didn't really think I had any unrealized goals that I wanted to shoot for... until talking to Karen the other night about this subject. She made herself just such a board many years ago, well before the movie ever came out and sure enough her dreams came to fruition. So it seems that I do have some aspirations that I want to see come true and I ended up yesterday sitting on the floor of my very vacant house building myself a vision board. It's a work in progress but it revolves around my relationship with Karen and where I want that to go. Where do I want that to go? I want to spend the rest of my life with that beautiful lady and you know what that means, don't you?

16 days to go before I'm outta here. I moved it up one day so I can see Krista since she will be visiting her Mom that weekend. So Sunday the 15th is my travel day. I CAN'T WAIT!!!!

Drive up 44

There was a bit of snow up around Lassen Park where I took this video. Sure was pretty even though it looked cold. At least the sun was out and it wasn't snowing, ya gotta love that!

But that was yesterday. Today I had to work for a few hours unloading and then getting the stuff we got distributed. We had an interesting load of Donate Don't Dump items and we got most of it moved out but not all of it. The sun was out today but it wasn't all that warm. But, you know, I'm not complaining. I have a weather report for Idaho Falls and today it never got out of the single digits and this evening the last I looked they had a +3. It's going to be below zero again tonight there. It was 12 here this morning so we are getting some of that chill too, but still not that bad. I'll be calling that place home soon.. Ice Station Zebra!

Back in Susanville

I had a very pleasant drive back from the coast today. No traffic and a nice sunny day as soon as I got over the hill. I stopped along the Eel river and took this picture. It was a little muddy from the recent rain and everything was still dripping but it was not too cold.

My trip back was rather uneventful and there was some snow on the road in places up by the turnoff to Lassen Park, but otherwise smooth sailing and a quick trip. I got back to Susanville around 2:00 and saw that it had snowed here a little. Good thing I missed that, I'm sure I'll see plenty of it when I get to Idaho. It was pretty going through the mountains with the new coat of snow on the trees too and I took a couple of short videos of it, but don't know if I want to post them. Maybe...