Every Day

It's a rare day when Jax and I don't head out hiking. The trips are getting longer each day as stamina keeps coming back. A few days ago I had about a five minute spell hiking back to the lodge where I didn't feel any pain at all and the nest night same thing happened for a little longer. It feels so nice to not have the terrible pain I had during the summer.

I think it was Nov 30th when the last guests checked out and a bunch of disc golfers showed up. For the 12 days af

ter that I didn't see a single person. Nobody came to the lodge at all. The critters weren't in short supply at all. Two adult skunks come up on the porch every day. One is really clean and the other one really dirty. Without even spraying it stinks. We're only had one ringtail for a month now and sporadic but a replica of that one started showing up, though smaller, about a week ago. They are so funny.

The raccoons are huge. Bulking up for the winter. Soon they will mostly disappear for the winter. I followed tracks all the way from the boat house next door to the front porch of the lodge for feeding. They walk a mile eash way for cat food. Up to five gray foxes that come up the hill each day from the river to feed in the day time. They'll get within 20 or so feet sometimes.