Wildside lake, with continuation no 1

 Yesterday i finally did a big outing again.  An adventure of kind, pioneering a route to a no name lake. We called  it Wildside Lake, we got there following Sunset  ridge, and climbing over Happy hill. Ahh we forgot to name the lovely creek.

I left the house at 8.30 am, at daybreak.  My friend had the canoe already packed, and i am sure by 9 o'clock we were in the water. Takhini river. from Mendenhall landing we paddled upstream. The river high, but hugging the western shore we made good progress, a few kilometers in we ferried across and  pulled the canoe on shore. My friend had explored this route before, but had not made it as far as the lake.

The dark spruce forest , mossy floor is open enough to hike through,  we come out by the creek on the south side, and see there is a big high clay bank typical of the landscape here, on the northwest side of the creek.  It doesn't look like it is very long. But  we do decide to climb up it, to walk on top of ridge is always easier then navigating close to a wild creek. It was a good choice  and on the way back we named it sunset hill, as we made it back on it  just in time for sunset, probably around 6 pm.

to be continued

 Sunset ridge slowly  turns into forest floor. In this spruce forest we had started seeing some pine trees, Pinus latifolia, and  later some giant aspen (Populus tremuloides) . we follow the animal trail that came from the ridge. Suddenly we start seeing a lot of fallen trees we have to climb over, mostly poplars (the aspen) Big trees, and as we come closer to the creek, we will see they have been fallen by beaver, a little beaver dam  but these beaver certainly use big trees for their winter food supply.

We follow the beaver ponds in the creek, but as we have to cross the creek  again eventually, we use an opportunity when one presents it self, where the creek is nice and deep but not very wide.

( Are beaver ponds 'in' a creek, it does not seem the right preposition. ??)

reading and listening

 and then  being able to say, i was wrong.

Do i do that?

That is on my mind this morning, everyday this week i listen to the news about a sexual abuse case at a local school. When the pope was here i listened to that.

I do not know Scott Shephard, but on the radio this morning he spoke clearly and kept saying: we made mistakes, we made mistakes on all levels, we all feel, etc I do not have the memory to recall his eexact words, but it was certainly 'we" and 'mistakes'.

Back when the pope was in Canada i listened for something like it, when our minister of education was on i listened for that.

For me it is very important to hear that.

I believe in awareness

Why is it so hard to say:. I did wrong. Are the people who do not, are not aware? I don't know

I do search my own self. Because ever so often i do have a wake up call. Like just yesterday  while cutting wood in our most beautiful forest, bucking up trees that have been blown over in the past few years, spruce still somewhat green, and old poplars, having been standing dead before they fell.

 In my husband it annoys me how he when i ask him a question  say yes when he does not know the answer. As my wood cutter ( a dear long-time lady friend) and i talk while sitting on a log servicing the saw. I realized I did the bloody same thing. I did not get what she was saying, and not to stop the conversation i said yes, only later realizing my mistake. How annoying!

And here now, haha I was wrong! i did not understand her fully but knew somewhere that the answer was no, yet i said yes.

health

Me with my over indulgence on sleep, i realized how can i actually even say that i am quite healthy?

Yet i am happy to say that i do walk at least 300 minutes per week. A friend of mine who is a doctor in South America, said that is the first thing she tells her patients. No pills are given before that. And she also first works on making small changes to their diet.  Such are her prescriptions initially.

I wonder how doctors are here?

 But i also realized how does say 300 min so easily, lots of steps, and the diet in  few small steps. She maybe said it that way, because she and i walk a lot and feel a half an hour a day is possible for every one. Where as to change your diet is harder. 

For me that is certainly true. Yet i haven't been on a big hike for too long a time, at least several weeks.

 It just happens that way. 

So many things to take note of, that is my complaint being in my sixties. 50 ish was celebration, now in my 60ish I find myself very busy with staying healthy. today already a busy day ahead

And looking out, lots of snow on the mountains, but none here in the woods, so a good day for cutting wood. My partner in crime will be here at eleven and before that i still have to do an hours walk with my husband.

Hasta la Vista!

different opinions

 Still dark out, wet, snow gone again.

I had a good sleep after the disturbed sleep of the night before, so now i slept from 8 pm till 6.30 am woke up one around 2.30 to go to the bathroom, but fell asleep again instantly, had lots of beautiful dreams anyway.

So yes my sleep habit, i do not like it.

But i do like my opinions, but more and more i am aware of how outlandish my opinions are. Or of course i really think other peoples opinions are the ones outlandish. 

And that is also why i write again, about my opinions this time, because i find in every conversation i have, there is some discord, some really black and white, good and bad. 

I am not ready to give examples, i do not want to put my friends on the spot. haha it is probably me on the spot.

So here in this little writings every morning, i will just give my view of things, and i do hope you will either agree or oppose. both are equally welcome. Or best of course, in my opinion, when we can be totally open and acceptive of eachother.....

ha! i do not even know

(sit up straight! that is still very hard to remember)

but what i was trying to say, i do not even know if someone is even reading my blog, maybe i have to built up a network again.

maybe that is what i do after breakfast ( porridge; organic oats, a variety of wild berries, yarrow, spruce nuts, orange peel flour) chaga and coffee.

See you there!

Healthy Living 2

 I do believe in getting a good sleep. 

I am over doing it a bit in that department. It is the one thing i have tried to overcome, my need for too much sleep. If you have a suggestion how to get by with less, i am game.

What is too much sleep to me? Well these days i probably sleep 10 hours a night.

 A bit much right? 

But when i listen to people getting sick, i do wonder if i am spared lots because i do sleep it off every single night.

Like i did not have a flu or cold in the last 3 years. I would at the first sign of a sniffle, drink lots of water and sleep extra sleep. Yes more then my 10 hours. And always in one day  the sniffle or cough or headache or whatever symptom would pass within a day.

Getting older i do find i do sleep lighter, but as i do not have to go to work in the morning, nobody to look after. If i  had  a unusual lucid night, I will just sleep in a bit.

 Oops sitting up straight, i forgot, but at least i did not cross my legs

Yesterday i did see an Elk, i followed it's track in the snow. The lake was still half open water and there were 4 ducks! 3 Barrow's Golden-eyes and 1 Buffle-head

healthy living

What works for me.

 As i am typing this, i try to remain upright,  shoulders back, chin in, and sitting straight up on the front of my chair. 

Legs not crossed.

I nibble on a Yukon grown carrot.

I was already outside this morning, clearing the cars of snow and hauling firewood for half an hour.

The wild place aspect, the drive way and road close by where covered in elk tracks, nibbling on the vegetation along the road,  they ate my snap dragons, and seemed to like the Lepidium ( a weed, that i harvest for it's seeds)

ha, my posture! i was sloughing again.  I, 62 years old! Finally figured out that i breath easier when i have correct posture. I always believed that i had some sort of default which made me breath through my mouth. Not so, it is posture.

Same for my varicose veins,  weak ankles, balance i am finally working on those things.

This topic is so huge, maybe i should have started out with the fact that i am considered fit, and do not take medication.

 Maybe i will write a bit on the topic for the next few weeks. 

I want to keep it short, because i do not think computer time is very healthy.

 I am going to help my husband, who is changing tires, and depending on the help he does or does not need, i will go for a walk to the lake, to see if there are any ducks,

There were no ducks  in the last few weeks, i did  here swans overhead  lately,  migrating south.

Hope to see you here!

 

nest time

 I have been thinking of writing on my blog again forever, but as the weather remains very warm here, it will have to wait, because i rather spend outdoors, and choosing to have only a PC, outdoor typing is not an option. 

Today we woke up to plus 12 Celsius or so, with no wind and sun, i suspect we will set a record for Oct 8.