September 23, 2015
I love to roll in dirt.
This is a good dirt place! And I
get some leaves on me too! Aren't I
cute?
This morning's walk was on a nature trail around and through
the golf course. It is high desert scrub
with some ponderosa pines. This used to
be a hunting ground and there are makeshift blinds made to protect the
hunters. A few giant jack rabbits
bounded across the trail. There are also
a whole lot of 'iniuks' (or inukyuks, depending on the indian tribe). These are configurations of stacked rocks
meant to bestow safe passage. There were
some real creative iniuks, like some people had a competition to see who could
do the best. It provided some nice
entertainment.
After our walk, we readied Hannah for the road. We headed south on hwy 395. The road soon turned to desert scrub. After a brief stop in Susanville, we decided
to head down to our friends, Rick and Sue's in Grass Valley. There are lots of pretty little side roads we
could take, but having been on them before, we opted for the quicker
route: 395 down to Reno, then to 80 over
the beautiful Donner Pass, then 20 through the forest into GV.
We met Rick and Sue in 1982 - before we were married. At that time, it was cheaper to ski
Innsbruck, Austria than it was to ski in Colorado, so we met on the plane going
to Germany. We hung around for a week in
Germany, Austria and Italy and we have been good buddies ever since. We watched their kids grow, get married and
have their own kids. They are our
extended family. And since Sue is
leaving for a couple weeks to go to Europe, we figured we better get there
today. They have a huge piece of
property so we put Hannah at the barn, where we could level her, get
electricity and open her up.
With some people, you can pick up right where you left off,
even if it was years ago. Yak, yak,
yak! Great visit.
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