Another day closer to seeing Karen again!

I took another walk today up on the Bizz. The cold nights are showing along the shore of the river and it's frozen over in the slowest places. This time of year makes for some interesting walks. There were almost no people out there and it was a Saturday, even. I did see a few, but not as many as I thought should be out on such a nice day. I walked up to the last bridge before Cady Spring and climbed up on the rim rock and sat in the sun listening to music. It was very comfortable and was really a nice thing to do today.

I'll be making a trip to Idaho in a couple of weeks and today I thought a lot about that and how I'm once again chomping at the bit to see Karen. I guess I'm just not going to be happy till I move closer to her for good. It's hard for me to keep living for the time I can get together with her again, I will be working toward making that move as soon as I can get the moons to line up and work out the logistics. I just love challenges, and this might end up being one. Nevertheless it will be happening soon.

Sun art

The sun sculpted this frost picture on the bridge up on the Bizz today. I've seen this before and it always looks cool. There were spots on the river that were frozen over, shades of things to come with winter fast approaching. I had around a 5 mile walk round trip and it was a pretty nice day for it. Not warm at all but the sun wasn't filtered by high clouds and was nice and strong and warm.

If this nice weather keeps coming, which I think it's supposed to, I might have to get back up in the woods the next couple of days and climb some more hills. It won't be long before I can't do that anymore till spring, and by then I might not be living here. Which will be a good thing, like Martha says.

Climbin' a hill!

Today I decided to climb up to a high spot for lunch and I picked a hill I had never climbed before. As you can see it was a nice day, not too warm as I had to keep my sweatshirt on even going up the steep spots. Never saw another person all day which was nice, but then I always say that, don't I? I have had my eye on this pointy hill for some time and today just seemed like the right day to climb up it. I had my mind on Karen the whole time, but again, that's been normal for me, hasn't it?


Honey Lake is dry this year and unless we start getting some wet stuff it might stay that way again next year. I guess I really don't care, by spring I will be living in Idaho and the cold and spiders will be my worst problems.

I had a roast going in my crockpot today so my house really smelled good when I got home early this afternoon, ya gotta love that way of fixing dinner! I do!!!!

Cool but not cold!

It wasn't exactly comfortable today but it was a good day for a long walk. I walked about 2½ miles up the Bizz and then climbed up onto the rimrock just for something to do. I sat for a minute on my ledge where Karen and I had lunch not too long ago. It was a little sad and I was a little lonely so I walked down the edge of the rock and took this picture looking back down where I had come from. I ended up finding another spot in the sun that gave me a nice view and sat there listening to music for a while. I am really missing Karen today and my walk just reminded me of her even more. Oh well, I guess I need to get used to it. Until I can find a place in Idaho Falls to move to this is as good as it's going to get.

There weren't many people out today and it was a pretty nice day albeit a little cool.

Karen leaves... again!

I'm getting real sick of this but I guess I'll just have to deal with it. I hate it when she leaves but I thoroughly enjoyed every minute I spent with her. We tried to spend some time in the sun and I took her to some of the spots I know like the petroglyphs at Belfast and my bench up on the hill.


Thanksgiving was a nice thing too this year, we all got together in Redding and had a family reunion. Karen got to meet all of them in one place, which might have been a little overwhelming for anyone else. Poor girl handled it well!



By the way, the date on this is not right, it's November 30 today.

Campfires...

Sittin' with the lady I want to be with by a campfire, what more can you ask for, huh? Karen and I made a trip to her property in Greenville and had lunch sitting by the fire. You needed a fire to keep warm since it was quite cold there and another thing, the gas prices in Greenville were $.48 cheaper than in Susanville. Gas there was $2.09 which was a real bargain compared to the price fixing situation in my town. I thought price fixing was illegal! OK, I'm off on a tangent, enough ranting for now.

So I've been hanging out with the lady I love and going for walks and just being with her before she has to head back to Idaho. I have to tell you, I'm not looking forward to that! But I have to stay in the moment I guess, so for now it it's all good! We are going down to Redding in a few days for Thanksgiving so she will be able to meet my family then, in fact all of them all in one fell swoop. Life is good! (For now!)

Walkin' and Talkin'

What could be better? Walking in the woods with a pretty lady and sitting in the sun on a rock is a great thing to do. We went out to the Dodge Mine area and had a nice walk and some good conversation. This is the good life! As you can see it was nice and warm and comfortable. Ya gotta love it... and I do, both the good times and the lady!