Recap

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass was a fine weekend, as always.

The stay on the Gypsy Gal was stupendous.

I saw anchovies swimming in the Bay!

I got to see James McMurtry perform!

The car made it to Sequoia just fine, but then nobody would fix it. Funny how, after all the different catastrophic things that had happened to it, my little Subaru would get taken out by such a small thing as a wheel bearing. Too rusty, they all said. My hopes of hiking all day every day while I was in Sequoia were dashed as I spent all my time dealing with the car repair (or lack thereof).

One of my favorite places, at least I got to hike here twice.

And I was pleased to see big fish in one of the pools.

I had a long drive in Jack's truck back to Crescent City so I could be to work on Friday.

I saw one of the best sunsets ever over Clearlake as I drove.

Back at work, I managed to have enough energy to make it through four days. On a rainy morning, I roved to Stout Grove and finally got to see the otters that I've waited my whole life to see.

One poking its head out of the river at me.

The whole family of four frolicking in the river.

One of the summer's tadpoles had completed his metamorphosis.

Looking up the Smith River

Autumn is beautiful here. This is the kind of weather we were having when we moved up here last year. Which, by the way, it's been 1 year since we signed the rental agreement on our house - October 15, 2014.

Jack will be home in 16 days. I have to drive back down to get him. ;)

I'm working part-time now, and trying to be more productive on my days off. This weekend I've kinda been easing into that - I had a bit of recovery to do, and unpacking. But now things are starting to look more under control. I've gotten a bunch of food cooked/baked and tidied up the house a bunch. Derby is only two nights a week for October, and that means I've got that much extra time for the next couple weeks. I've still got plenty that I want to get done before Jack comes home, which I'm now realizing will be VERY soon. But I think I'll get the more important items ticked off my list.

I'd better get busy - I'm finishing up my last CD of "The Last Olympian" audiobook at the moment. Once it's done I'll start doing some gardening. We just bought a chest freezer, which means I've got plenty more room for frozen cherry tomatoes for Jack! :) Rolly pollies are eating at my roma tomatoes and I need to find some sort of way to combat that...

There will be plenty of canning in the weeks to come...

Until next time!