Life

I mentioned a week or two ago that I was pretty ill over the summer and had lost 28 or so pounds in three months and was mostly incapacitated during that time from the pain. I'm not various meds of which one is pain. Over the last six weeks tha pain has gone down substantially and while I haven't had a completely pain free day yet it's massively better. The stomach swelling I had has gone down by 75% percent. I know long think I'm having twins.

Jax and I, and somedays Teresa goes with us, are out hiking everyday. I'm getting my endurance back but it's going to be a long road back. My hope if by February I'll be able to hike back from town again.

So far one of the best off season's I've had. There are currently 13 big horn, six mule deer, three grey foxes and two adult skunks that show up during the day time to get hot dogs. Jax knows not to mess with the skunks but he is curious and he does not understand why two of the last four days he has walked down the porch just to check them out and say hi and they have sprayed him. Teresa has stepped up and cleaned him both times. He looks so lost when he gets sprayed like "what did I do wrong". Today he wouldn't talk down to that end of the porch even when I just sent to fee the foxes as they alternately took turns coming up the hill.

Mountain Lion

Every year when guests ask me if we have a mountain lion I tell them 2nd to 3rd week of March and right around Thanksgiving. There are three hawks currently patrolling the canyon. A male and a female sharpshin hawk and the third one I'm not sure of yet but have seen it from a distance. Each morning the ravens have been gathering and heading toward the north side of the property where I see the female the most. Linny and I have seen this befoe where they gather to kill a competitor. I told Teresa the female sharpshin would be dead in a few days. I have seen at least one raven shadowing it everywhere it goes. At the boat ramp I saw a raven sitting on the next branch same tree to the female hawk. Two dayw later I saw six ravens come out of the tamarisk at once. I was confident I was about to find the dead female but when I walked over there it was a dead three point mule deer I have seen many times on the property over the years. The first day I saw it was still complete from the neck up and I didn't see any marks from a mountain lion or tracks. The next two times I visited I did notice that the neck was broken and bent back as I've seen the mountain lion do before.

The Fingers

Can hardly go wrong hiking back in the Finger Canyons.

Not a No Cows Day

Jax loves to chase them. With normally four potential directions to chase them you would think that the odds of getting him to chase them the way I want them to go would be at least one in four to get them off the property but in reality there is almost zero chance.

The Beach

North side of the beach is not looking so good with dead foliage that was washed down but the south side looks great. Turning into pretty good sized.

Disc Golf Kind of Day

Ignore the dates on the camera they are way off and I don't know how to fix it. We had disc golfers come in by truck, Jeep, motorcycles, bicycles, and the Moab Jett group came in by boat.

Some Clarifications

This is me working on bookings at my desk with Jax's bed and Jax right next to me, as it should be. Heather called yesterday to say that there are comments on Facebook about Kobae about to have a friend apparently from the recent post about a lady calling me from Moab to tell me she found a tortoise, sent me a picture of it, and ask about it. That is never going to happen. Kobae is a lot of work and he's mean with attitude issues. For every five times we go hiking I save his life at least once because of the dumb stuff he does. His choice for what path to take is made from one foot off the ground and he's nearly always wrong so he's in trouble all the time. Four out of five times he gets out of it but once out of every five he doesn't and not only do I have to save his life but occasionally, once every couple of years, I put my life at risk saving his. Why would I want two of those? Second, we don't know until they are six or eight years old if they are male or female. If male Kobae would kill it first chance he gets and if female he would crush it the first time he tried to have sex with it. If you've stayed here you've seen what he does to the stairs. A second tortoise would be dead one way or the other first time it had contact with Kobae. I'm so far removed from thinking about having a second tortoise despite telling the lady I would go look at it I finally went to town this week and forgot to call her. Never, ever, going to happen.