Caribou

Yesterday at the Kusawa road, Don and i saw caribou tracks. 

A few months ago i went into the building at Burns road, whatever it is called now, Wildlife Management, maybe. 

Anyway i asked them about the status of the Ibex Caribou Herd, now i forgot where i put the information that i got.

The Ibex herd is a small herd living on the mountain south west of Kusawa Lake, i recall they said, there are around 750 caribou in that herd now and it is stable.

What i know for sure! is that there are tracks on this side (east side of the lake) and maybe one day we will see more caribou around here. I did see one a few years back. 

AND THE WIND CAME

and blown a hole in the cold

 an old hurt stung

when i realized there never was a cut

all feathers will be gone by morn'

as i fly with the wind

road and water

http://www.whatsupyukon.com/article-view.cfm?ArticleID=1789

my story which goes with this picture is in what's up yukon. , I always try to get the paper when i am in , but i didn't get this issue, i do not know which photos they printed, so here is one.

I did get cold feet that day, more extreme then usual, but that was when i was still smoking, ( i still don't smoke!) ( the easy way Allen Carr).
But as you might know on Christmas eve i did freeze my feet, a little beyond what's being just cold feet.
I think my feet are recovering well, i have been skiing  again, but with the weather much warmer it is hard to say if i will have problems.
I do not buy it anyway. many people here will say, oh now you will always have problems.

:) i am going to beat the odds. and keep on pampering my feet, which are nicely tingling now after a hot footbath. I do not know what the best remedy is.

But i did some googling again  today , and someone said when nerves are regenerating, there are  weird pangs.
A few days ago, it felt like a an insect was crawling around in my sock and biting. I hope it was my nerves recovering, i did not find an insect.
And sometimes i do feel little pangs.
Today , i was on my feet all day, now at night after the hot footbath they are tingling.

and recovery might indeed be long, i do not have much discomfort and there is feeling in my toes ( a lot actually, when Don massages my feet it is quite hilarious, i won't go into details, but i do squeal like a little piggy.

And as long as  i do still have those 'not normal' sensations, i keep treating those tootsies

Sorry if i bore you
soon i hope to be normal again

looking out of the window

Giving my feet a rest again today, they have improved a great deal. (see last post  i froze my toes a week ago)
Yesterday i went to work, and no problems. Although in the evening my toes were hot and tingling again.
Which is to me an indication not to overdo it.

Talking to others about frostbite, there is those who always keep having problems after, and those who have no problems anymore. This one trucker from Alaska did describe the same sensations he had in his hands as i have in my feet  He's one that doesn't have problems anymore, but he will always take extreme precaution, to keep things warm, he is a bushmen, meaning when he is not driving his truck he spends a lot of time outdoors.

Anyway i will be wiser in the future :)
And for now i will do everything to let it heal properly, before exposing my feet to extreme cold again.

To me it seems that what i did is working: rest, warmth, massage, footbaths. herbal teas. And when the hot pins and needles subsided i started to go for little walks in super warm boots.

Happy New Year

It is very nice to have my son home for a bit over the Christmas holidays.

Frostbite

Yesterday the weather finally warmed up here, but as it is i am staying indoors to rest.

The case is i have sore toes. I have asked around and googled things. Not finding and getting a lot of useful information.But i decided the most sensible thing to  do seems to stay warm and rest. and massages as many as i can get.

As metaphysical causes i found feet stand for future, but the big toe for dominance. -repressed desire to dominate- i found somewhere.

 Okay i will think about that. The future  might make sense, i do feel  more ever recently that i have to make a decision about my future. And for dominance :) ERASE what i say next:: i wonder if i should really look for a new partner, one that i can lovingly dominate .

back to the basic facts.

On Christmas eve i got my toes really cold, but not colder then usually after a long trip in severe weather.

I do have to say, this year i wear normal ski boots, compared to my big boots. I was tired of skiing on heavy duty skies, that have bindings fit for bunny boots.

Anyway warming up my toes at home, wnt fairly normal. I remember one year i once had incruciating pain while warming them up. 

Now the pain seemed to come later, somehow delayed. pins and needles feeling.

On boxing day i went out for a prolonged time again, and after that trip the pins and needles had worsened, or maybe more now i was truly alerted.

On google i found so little , the 811 nurse. Only helped by saying , i might have some nerve ending damage. her book said to go to the doctor immediately. Which i haven't done yet.

Anyway somewhere i did read rest/massage and that it might take a few days to a week.

So i will go with that, and let you know.

I did find though that frostbite is a very serious condition

I suppose we live a little on the edge here in the Yukon

The nurse ( from down south) asked me if i often have sensitive skin to the cold. Yes  i do! 

Which to her book requires a visit to a physician. But i figure living here, being outdoors a lot, that is daily life. My cheeks have put up with a lot over the years.

And one more note, one year i did get frostbite on my cheek, a hard patch of white skin, it recovered well, but for a few years that would be a sensitive spot to the old, i had to cover my cheek with a scarve being outside in  sub minus 20 temperatures. That spot has now totally recovered, even on those days last week my cheeks stood up to the weather uncovered.

I just wanted to tell this, maybe you have similar experiences, or questions

or some answers for me.

Thank you

ps and i drink my herbal teas: nettle, labrador, rose , potentilla, artemisia etc

Morgan le Fay

fata morgana, mirage

same mountains on different days

all i want to say actually is that i am upset with botany, first i found out this year that fireweed is not epilobium anymore, now you might think, what is your point, but now i find out that even asters that are asters are not asters.

we all know asters right?

you go check my wild flower blog if you want to know more.

and i know that it is me that is slightly obsessed with the name of a flower.

what is my reasoning? 

when i actually know something

a flower

a little detail of love

IT EXIST

sun dog

yesterday's poem is much longer, some times emotions are not to catch in four sentences, neither are they in a page long poem, so i suffice with telling you about facts of today's day. Yet even facts can have an ellusive quality to them.
This morning we were gazing at the sky, from here, from up the hill and from the neighbours deck. What was being clear was not so clear now. Our neighbours saw something in the sky , that didn't seem to be explained rationally like a sun dog. We'll have to look again tomorrow night.
Then at home after days of silent weather a whirlwind blew through our yard, putting us in a white out, now all is calm again and pink.
And.... i am still not smoking, and i KNOW i won't ever again, it's just what it is.