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Slippery Rocks And Other Things.
Hello everyone on this nice sunny autumn day! It’s mid afternoon and still sunny, that’s not bad at all. It is 63F or 17C, which is cool, but wearing a jacket makes it a nice day anyway. So I decided to head out for a walk along my forest path down to the river once again. I have to grab each nice day as it comes along since we are getting so many rainy days now. This has been a very rainy fall so far. That often means a very snowy winter. And winter’s with lots of snow are also very long. So that’s another indicator of another long winter for us. But I’m still hoping for a long fall and short milder winter. Okay, maybe I should say, “dreaming”. Oh well, nothing wrong with dreaming sometimes.
So off I go for my walk. There is a lot of water along the path for the first little while. Right on the path. And beside the path. About 6 inches (15cm) deep. Hard not to get wet feet on that first part. Oh well. It’s a nice day anyway. And my feet are always getting wet one way or the other.
Quite a few new mushrooms were out today, I thought there would be. Sure is a big variety of mushrooms around. Always interesting to see what else is going to show up. Came across a flock of thrushes obviously heading south. They will be gone tonight. There is a lot of white-throated sparrows around now. They usually stay until late September, which is nice. Sometimes even later. Sometimes. Not often.
Spotted a flock of chickadees and nuthatches as well. The only other birds were a 2 year old ring-billed gull and a golden eagle. My two pictures of the eagle were not that good. But he was flying and I have a hard time focusing on a bird that keeps changing distance like that. Oh well, maybe another time. Golden eagles usually only come through this area during migration in the spring and fall. We have a lot of bald eagles here though, the highest number of breeding pairs anywhere in the province and second only to B.C.
But it sure was nice down there today, not much wind, really a beautiful autumn day to be by the river. But, it’s important to watch out for slippery rocks. All this rain makes the rocks wet. And there is one kind of rock here that gets extremely slippery when wet. So I am careful not to step on that particular type of rock. Until this time. I was looking around, instead of down. I stepped on the rock and slid about 8 feet (about 2.5 meters), then over a ledge and landed on a pile of rocks about 6 feet (2 meters) down. I will admit, that did hurt. A lot. Still does.
I landed on my side. It wasn’t easy walking back. Didn’t think I would make it back. I had to keep stopping due to the pain. Oh my. It all happened so fast I couldn’t do anything to stop myself. I won’t go on that part of the path again until it’s nice and dry. Which may not be until next year. At least I wasn’t close to the river at that point, so no way that I would have fallen in there. Although that would have been a softer landing than those rocks. Oh well. It’s over. And no serious damage.
It is still nice and sunny, amazing that it lasted all day for a change. Sorry this is a bit late today. I will try to do better from now on. I hope you all have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
© 2019 Steve McLeod.
It’s One Of Those Days, Again.
Good afternoon everyone on this cool and rainy Tuesday. I had one of those days the other day. You know the kind. When things just don’t seem to go right. However, when I look at it afterward, it really is funny. Like this one. It really got me laughing just thinking about what happened and what it must have looked like. What did my facial expression look like? That sort of thing. So, speaking of painting. I wanted to paint a bird house. Well, it was mostly painted already. Just needed a few details done to it. The sun was shining that day and it was warm enough on the deck for painting. And it’s safer to paint outside than inside. Normally.
So I opened the can of paint. Carefully. I thought. It was a small can of paint. As I pried the lid off, it flipped up. I tried to catch it. Why, I’m not sure. I grabbed the lid and of course got paint on my hand. In the process of doing this, I knocked the paint can off the little table I was using. I naturally grabbed for the paint can. And stuck my fingers in the paint. Now I have paint on both hands. I didn’t bring a rag out with me. So I wiped my one hand on my shirt. Forgot this was not the shirt I used for painting. It is now.
A mosquito landed on my face. That is not allowed. Anywhere else is fine. But not my face. So I swatted the mosquito. Got paint on my face. I decided to wash my hands before doing any more. Got paint on the doorknob. Should have used my other hand that I had wiped on my shirt. Muffin is watching this from her chair by the door. As I come in my foot catches on the chair leg. Almost knock it over. Muffin goes flying. I almost join her. I grab the chair. Now there is paint on the chair.
Forgot about that. Should have left it alone. The chair wouldn’t have fallen over anyway. So there is a lot of paint going in places it is not supposed to go. And nothing where it should be going. Which was just a little bit of detail painting on that birdhouse. This is not a birdhouse to be used by birds. It’s a table decoration. If I ever get it painted.
When I finally got everything cleaned up and got back to the birdhouse, I found that some of the paint had spilled on it as well. So I had to repaint that side. So I had to wait for another day to finish what I started to do but never did do. One of those days, that’s all. But I have to admit, it’s funny. Just thinking about it all. I hope everyone has a great day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
© 2019 Steve McLeod.
