Lovely day today
I started the day with a refreshing soak and cleanse then took the dogs out onto the river in a kayak! I like being able to run the van down with the kayak and spare myself the trouble of loading and unloading the bike trailer. We all floated downstream awhile then fetched up on a secluded beach in the park. I let the dogs roam around on the spit of sand and they quite enjoyed that while I uploaded some vines. We got back in and I was able to launch without soaking my feet or dunking anyone, so that was a victory. I slid off the sand dune, LOL, and a power boat came by and made waves to help lift me off the beach too.
A little farther downriver and the speedboat traffic was getting too busy. There were a good half dozen speed boats around, at least 2 water skiing at any given time, plus three or four seadoos and a collection of kayaks, paddle boarders, and canoeists. I'd say it's about a five mile stretch of river that gets covered but most of the action is in the 2 miles right down town between the boat docks and the power boat launch downtown. The docks are for light craft like kayaks, the ramp for trailered boats. The docks sit on what has been a launch for larger boats but they keep getting moved downriver because they are so obnoxious for the paddling community.
Personally I find the waves entertaining but I could do without the threat of being run over if I stray from the shore line.
So we had a blast, I got sore arms and happy vibes and I paddled us all back upstream to the docks, dodging power boats and even the big riverboat "paddleboat" tour boat. it's a double decker with facilities. I really would like to ride on it before we leave town.
I kept looking around at this very pretty city and wondering if I'd regret leaving. Then I superimposed my winter memories. Winter is coming. If you've ever watched the series "Game of Thrones" you'll remember the north king warning everyone about winter. Well that's what it's like here but it's every damn year, not just every few lifetimes. Mind you, it's not years long either. It just feels like it. It's almost a year long, though! I'm quite pleased to have such warm weather into September though. I suppose I should get those vehicles detailed before it's too late. Dan will need that smart car "border guard" clean, so no bits of rabbit hay from the last excursion to pick bunny food, for example. I keep advising him to pick his crossing point thoughtfully but advising that man to be thoughtful is like advising the wind to be gentle. Maybe it will, maybe it won't, but it'll have nothing to do with your advice either way. He's just got such a belligerent attitude and it's gotten worse this last year. He's into that whole "dark side angry old man kook" zone lately. The Misinformation for Idiots 101 class never seems to graduate. I don't like it but he's a grown man and it's not my place to boss him around. Still, his terrible education has really primed him to be a sucker to these cretins and they very much want into his wallet. Very much. I feel like I should be crossing my fingers!
I ought to look into a warding spell for him. Yeah, there's a place to start thinking, can I put a spell on the house that makes that sort of deception mentally "taste" grey and flat? It's been years since I did any magic beyond keeping the house protection up and the usual cooking and healing crap I do by nature. Still, supernatural means just might be the way to fight these guys for my husband's attention. I want him to redirect. he puts a good couple hours a day of his mind into these alarmist people's propaganda. it's so dumb, so short on comprehension, that I can't even fix it! I'd have to give Dan a highschool and first year university science education first! It's really too bad. It's like a chinese version of a smart car, he's got some good ideas there but the execution is terribly flawed due to ignorance and idiocy. Dan's not an idiot but he's a sucker. Don't get me wrong, I see lots of mental prowess in this man, just he's kind of a rube, y'know? I don't quite understand why, but I do try and insulate him from it a bit since he could really get screwed otherwise and has certainly been badly abused enough in the past already. I mean, I am his wife, I'm supposed to take care of him, right? He takes care of me, I take care of him, that way we've both got someone besides our selves looking after us. That's what you get married for, at least later in life when all the glamour gets stripped away and the hormones quit working you over with a bullwhip.
So it was one of those days that make one second guess leaving. Saskatoon put on her best shine for me. The sky was a flawless blue studded with pure white clouds of innocent fluffiness. The water sparkled and laughed. The ducks quacked. The people smiled. The wind was a loving zephyr caressing away the sun's passionate heat when it grew too much.
I was also strong enough to handle the big kayak full of crap and carry it when it couldn't be gently dragged on the lawn. The paleo diet, in spite of the marshmallows, chocolate baking chips, and potato chips, is really working for me.
I cut the potato chips out last week. They were replacing too much food. Same problem with these chocolate chips. They're the fancy kind so not too gunked up but still low on cocoa butter goodness and high on cane sugar badness. So I'm letting them go again. I just get these blasted cravings! It's maddening! I just want sugar! Might be a shortage of calories during the day, mind you.
Oh we had bbq chicken and potatoes for supper. The bbq here is nice and yet another thing to make one second guess the 5 yr plan. Maybe the winters will come out mild for the next few years too just to make it even harder to leave, LOL. Saskatoon doesn't want to let me go. I know my garden doesn't. She dies most likely, and fairly soon after my departure. The likelihood of finding another gardener here is just so tiny. I hope the oak trees makes it, but the rest I just don't see it. I'll sell the rocks and stones anyway, since the place is going in a dumpster and we can make money off every last rock and patio stone.
A little farther downriver and the speedboat traffic was getting too busy. There were a good half dozen speed boats around, at least 2 water skiing at any given time, plus three or four seadoos and a collection of kayaks, paddle boarders, and canoeists. I'd say it's about a five mile stretch of river that gets covered but most of the action is in the 2 miles right down town between the boat docks and the power boat launch downtown. The docks are for light craft like kayaks, the ramp for trailered boats. The docks sit on what has been a launch for larger boats but they keep getting moved downriver because they are so obnoxious for the paddling community.
Personally I find the waves entertaining but I could do without the threat of being run over if I stray from the shore line.
So we had a blast, I got sore arms and happy vibes and I paddled us all back upstream to the docks, dodging power boats and even the big riverboat "paddleboat" tour boat. it's a double decker with facilities. I really would like to ride on it before we leave town.
I kept looking around at this very pretty city and wondering if I'd regret leaving. Then I superimposed my winter memories. Winter is coming. If you've ever watched the series "Game of Thrones" you'll remember the north king warning everyone about winter. Well that's what it's like here but it's every damn year, not just every few lifetimes. Mind you, it's not years long either. It just feels like it. It's almost a year long, though! I'm quite pleased to have such warm weather into September though. I suppose I should get those vehicles detailed before it's too late. Dan will need that smart car "border guard" clean, so no bits of rabbit hay from the last excursion to pick bunny food, for example. I keep advising him to pick his crossing point thoughtfully but advising that man to be thoughtful is like advising the wind to be gentle. Maybe it will, maybe it won't, but it'll have nothing to do with your advice either way. He's just got such a belligerent attitude and it's gotten worse this last year. He's into that whole "dark side angry old man kook" zone lately. The Misinformation for Idiots 101 class never seems to graduate. I don't like it but he's a grown man and it's not my place to boss him around. Still, his terrible education has really primed him to be a sucker to these cretins and they very much want into his wallet. Very much. I feel like I should be crossing my fingers!
I ought to look into a warding spell for him. Yeah, there's a place to start thinking, can I put a spell on the house that makes that sort of deception mentally "taste" grey and flat? It's been years since I did any magic beyond keeping the house protection up and the usual cooking and healing crap I do by nature. Still, supernatural means just might be the way to fight these guys for my husband's attention. I want him to redirect. he puts a good couple hours a day of his mind into these alarmist people's propaganda. it's so dumb, so short on comprehension, that I can't even fix it! I'd have to give Dan a highschool and first year university science education first! It's really too bad. It's like a chinese version of a smart car, he's got some good ideas there but the execution is terribly flawed due to ignorance and idiocy. Dan's not an idiot but he's a sucker. Don't get me wrong, I see lots of mental prowess in this man, just he's kind of a rube, y'know? I don't quite understand why, but I do try and insulate him from it a bit since he could really get screwed otherwise and has certainly been badly abused enough in the past already. I mean, I am his wife, I'm supposed to take care of him, right? He takes care of me, I take care of him, that way we've both got someone besides our selves looking after us. That's what you get married for, at least later in life when all the glamour gets stripped away and the hormones quit working you over with a bullwhip.
So it was one of those days that make one second guess leaving. Saskatoon put on her best shine for me. The sky was a flawless blue studded with pure white clouds of innocent fluffiness. The water sparkled and laughed. The ducks quacked. The people smiled. The wind was a loving zephyr caressing away the sun's passionate heat when it grew too much.
I was also strong enough to handle the big kayak full of crap and carry it when it couldn't be gently dragged on the lawn. The paleo diet, in spite of the marshmallows, chocolate baking chips, and potato chips, is really working for me.
I cut the potato chips out last week. They were replacing too much food. Same problem with these chocolate chips. They're the fancy kind so not too gunked up but still low on cocoa butter goodness and high on cane sugar badness. So I'm letting them go again. I just get these blasted cravings! It's maddening! I just want sugar! Might be a shortage of calories during the day, mind you.
Oh we had bbq chicken and potatoes for supper. The bbq here is nice and yet another thing to make one second guess the 5 yr plan. Maybe the winters will come out mild for the next few years too just to make it even harder to leave, LOL. Saskatoon doesn't want to let me go. I know my garden doesn't. She dies most likely, and fairly soon after my departure. The likelihood of finding another gardener here is just so tiny. I hope the oak trees makes it, but the rest I just don't see it. I'll sell the rocks and stones anyway, since the place is going in a dumpster and we can make money off every last rock and patio stone.