This stuff is rare and we are in desperate need of it. As much as I love the sun, the lack of rainfall this fall and winter is beginning to get scary.
It may be time to break out with your rain dance. And if you don’t know how, maybe you could say a little prayer or two instead.
When I first picked up this medicine buddha, I thought it might help me to be injury free. Now, over a year later, I think maybe he has served to help me better understand responses to injury so that I might become a resource to others.
Here we are, half way through a 10 mile hilly trek. We’re still smiling, even YaYa who got up before 9 am for the first time since his winter break started.
At this point in our trek, the climbing is literally all behind us. From here on out… it’s all downhill.
If it’s not from the urine of one dog, it’s the claws of the other: my lawn has literally gone to the dogs. I could complain, or build a dog run and put in a new lawn…but I don’t.
With so little rain fall this past fall and winter, we all need to conserve our precious resource (WATER).
So, I just let it be.
In my year in review post, I mentioned some plans I’ve got cooking to cross off another item I’ve had on my Bucket List. My list has grown in a cross-off-one-item add two sort of way, but this particular item has been on since the very beginning.
Originally, I envisioned just visiting this place with my boys. After my backpacking trip to hike Half Dome, however, merely visiting this majestic place seemed inadequate. BoBo stopped by there to gawk at it’s grandeur on his drive across the states. He snapped a photo, sent it to me, and drove onward. I hardly seemed adequate but he was on a tight deadline with orders to check in for his new assignment in only a couple of days. I decided that I wanted to do it differently; I want to trek into the backcountry and really experience the canyon from inside and out.
I began making longterm plans which included sending YaYa to backpacking camps each summer for the past few years. I feel like the time is now for him. High school will soon be demanding everything of him and hanging out with his mom will be of less importance. As for me, I learned as much as I could from theMAN on our backpacking adventures. I also started collecting my own gear so that I wouldn’t have to buy it all at once when the time came to go. I’ve learned a lot, but I still don’t feel like I can go it alone…
So I’ve signed up for a group trip where the itinerary, meals, and even much of the gear is provided — along with a fearless leader. Now, all we need to do is get there (airfare and hotel for before & after), oh yeah, and TRAIN FOR IT.