Sunday, August 28, 2016
My maternal human had a critter crawling up her
foreleg. She called me. I sniffed it.
She flinched and it fell onto the bed.
I pounced. It moved. I pawed at it and it ran under the
covers. Then my paternal human snatched
it and killed it! I wasn't even done
with it! It would have been so much fun
getting it out from under the covers but he ruined it for me. Why is that?
Today was a series of vignettes.
Early morning vignette:
Ok, 'early' does not really apply.
We should not be on mountain time.
It is almost 8am before we get out of bed, which is unheard of back
home. We enjoy coffee and get on the
stupid phones for some emails and game time.
How dumb is that?
Get moving vignette:
We readied the bikes for another ride down 'our' road, only
farther. My goal is to pedal to
Indianola, which is 11 miles down the road.
There is an abandoned fire station there and a memorial to two
firefighters that died in the line of duty in 2003.
Will we have enough 'gas' in our engines? We are used to the first five miles since we
have done it before by bike, but now we are going into to unfamiliar territory
as far as biking goes I scouted it out
on our way back yesterday and it looked ok, but will it BE ok? Oh!
Wait - There is a bald eagle! He
is looking at us... Hmmm, look at that
fishing hole... You know, this is going
downhill for a really long time. You
know what that means, don't you? We
weave along the road. There are some
cars coming through. It is Sunday and
lots of rafting going on. Trucks either
with rafts, or with empty raft trailers come by, as do a few cars. We have owned the road up till now, but it is
pretty easy sharing it.
Spouse is starting to worry about the ride back. When we get to the turnoff for Sage Creek, he
turns around. I continue on to the
memorial, which was about 2 miles more.
It is a shame that the property is abandoned. This memorial will fade away I guess. These were 2 men just about 24 years old that
were heli-firefighters. It is a touching
memorial that obviously cost some money.
It is sad to see the property degrade.
Now comes the daunting ride back. It really is not that bad. Yes it is a little uphill, but I am not even
using my easy gears. It is so easy to
pedal when you have so much eye candy to look at. I pedal.
I pedal. I pedal. Ok, it is getting a little long here. Oh wait, I am coming to the abandoned
mine. This was our turnaound point the
other morning. I pedal. I pedal.
I pedal. The bald eagle is still
there. I thank it for watching over me
on my ride and tell him he can go fly now if he wants, and darned if he didn't
take off! I pedal. I am at the Newland Ranch now and I am
pedaling, and pedaling. Only about a
mile to go... Up the last hill... and down the last hill. As I ride past the general store, there is my
spouse fidgeting with his phone after he enjoyed his post exercise ice cream. It seemed a little longer coming back but it
really wasn't all that bad. Back to
Hannah we go.
Afternoon vignette:
Rest. There is nothing like a good shower after a good
workout. The bikes are now loaded onto
Hannah and ready to go. Tomorrow we move
on. We weren't planning on coming to
North Fork, but we are so glad we did.
It was so easy to spend 5 days here, but we think we will head to
Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and maybe the Grand Tetons. We shall see...
Vodka tonic. Make
dinner. Eat dinner.
Nighttime vignette:
There are a bunch of little gnats or something flying around
as we are reading in bed. Then this
bigger critter lands on my arm. Naw, we
are not gonna do that! Rudy, come here! He comes, he sniffs. I flinch and it jumps onto the bed. Rudy paws.
It moves. Rudy paws some more and
moves it under the covers. Oh, we are
NOT going to do that! Spouse grabs it
and smashes it. Rudy looks like he has
been crushed by his paternal human!
Tough...
Our laptop is acting a little weird. I sure hope it lasts through this trip.
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