Friday, October 13, 2017
Photos from the canyon
A bonus, for those who'd enjoy seeing a few pictures from my trip to the canyon, grouped here to keep the other blog posts from being too picture heavy to load well.
Back from the canyon
I doubt anyone noticed my absence, but I was away from "civilization" for a few days.
Upon my return Monday evening, I was disheartened to see that there's still no civilization back here in "civilization".
The archators are still arguing over ways to violate you and me. Not that I really expected anything different.
While I was off wandering, I did see a "state police" pickup cruising around when I came in for meals. The occupant losers staring intensely at everyone they passed, hoping to break their boredom by seeing some excuse to molest someone. But otherwise I was pretty much able to forget that such bad guys exist. I didn't waste my time thinking about archators, with the exception of overhearing someone make a dumb comment, that I got off my mind by making a short video.
Instead I did useful things. I mindlessly wandered wherever the whim took me. I looked at animal tracks and watched some tracks being made. I nibbled weeds. I took my daughter along to show her some of the things I found. I talked to a lizard sunning on a rock, and I petted a big centipede. Just normal things.
I also worked at teaching a young boy the art of making fire without matches- with his mother's informed consent. I told her I am not responsible if he burns down the house. His patience level is probably going to have to increase before he's too much of a danger in that regard, but you never know.
Anyway, it was a nice, badly needed break. But I'm back and ready to write.
(I'll do another post with some pictures, so as not to overload this post.)