26 September …
This coming Saturday is the final radio event for 2018. We will be doing the Headwaters Trail Runs. It is an event for runners with three courses (30K, 50K, and 10K) all over dirt trails through beautiful country. Our function is to keep track of the runners on the courses so the event coordinators know where they are, and to be available to help with any problems. My station is as liaison to the event’s master planner. He is a personable young man named Gerad Dean who works as a data collector for the USFS.
We are using a new tracking system this year. It promises to be more accurate and easier to use. I’ll let you know next week how it went.
We had agreed last spring to do this event so we were already committed when a chance came to do the Run4salmon with the Winnemem Wintu tribe. I would have liked to do that event and to have made a contact with the tribe, but oh well …
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Our weather has been doing the usual off and on thing. We had a couple of coolish days (even had a morning warm-up fire in the house one day), but it is supposed to reach 90 today.
There was a breakout of over 1,000 acres on the Delta fire yesterday, but they had it under control easily. Current bad fire is west of Happy Camp down river (quite a way away).
I’d make a statement about our situation here except it might be tempting fate so I will resist.
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The chickens are doing well … with one exception. One or two of them seem to prefer to lay their eggs on the floor or ground. One has made a nest in a corner of the house and Mark found a clutch of eggs outdoors under a gooseberry bush.
We are getting six or seven eggs a day and I am beginning to see fertile eggs so we know the rooster is doing his job.
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Autumn continues to creep in. The catalpa has begun to change colour and the maple is overall catching up with that one blazing branch.
This year the ground is littered with seeds from the evergreens.
The last time I remember seeing this kind of an autumn carpet was a year when the trees had been stressed and put a lot of energy into reproduction.
I’ve been trying to remember what the following winter was like, but no luck. Guess we will have to wait and see.
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Yesterday was a busy day for me. I had an appointment in Yreka at 1000 that took two hours. Then I had to be at St. Barnabas’ for the food center at 1300 and the drive between home and Yreka takes me almost an hour.
I made it in time but the delivery truck was late and we weren’t able to start unpacking and arranging until there were already folks lined up waiting.
Provisions this time included canned chicken, oats, grated cheddar, canned apples and potatoes and carrots and tomato sauce and spaghetti sauce and mixed fruit and diced tomatoes, powdered milk, rice cereal, dried blueberries, peanut butter (both chunky and creamy), frozen eggs, dry beans, processed cheese (think Velveeta), and cranberry-apple juice … all good nutritious food.
I will be working the two remaining sessions this year … one fresh produce in October and a final one like yesterday in November.
I had to leave St. Barnabas early to get Paul and take him to his taiko lesson. The lessons are going better. He fools around less as he gets more comfortable at what he is doing.
Yesterday the teacher had some of the advanced students demonstrate the basic kada (practice piece) for the new learners. I was impressed. There are three good drummers in that group … all less than high school age.
It looks as if I will be attending taiko recitals for the foreseeable future.
And now you know why the blog is a day late.
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Spinzilla (the week of nothing but spinning) is next week. I have my fiber drafted and bobbins checked.
(Sorry for the blur. Looks as if I will soon need to use a tripod for close-up picture taking. Darn “essential” tremor.)
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Three fourths of 2018 gone already. My how time flies etc. etc. etc.
Just know that …
If it makes you happy, you’re doing it right.
So … ‘til next week …