Misery Loves Company......

Miserable, absolutely miserable. That is how we have been finding ourselves this week. Those that know us know how much we love hot weather. Not! For us the perfect weather would be 60 during the day and cool, even frosty at night. This week started out fine with highs in the mid to upper 60’s. Then one day it got hot. I don’t remember what we were doing but I remember telling Barb it was getting too hot. I looked at the temperature on the truck….72. The following several days were in the mid to upper 80’s! Ugh! I see some of our Arizona friends are dealing with 100’s, even 110’s .  We would just melt into the pavement. There would be a pool of goo on the ground and you would walk by and say something like “Hey, that pool of goo looks like Jim and Barb”

We tried to limit our outdoor activities to the morning and evenings. I have been shooting my bow a lot in the hopes that we get up to Alaska and can go moose hunting this fall.

We also tried to escape the heat by going kayaking and nature hikes. I have been continuing to refine my nature photography skills. 

Forrest trying to hook the big one!

On another outing everyone got their kayaks and we headed to Spring Creek just outside of Klamath Falls. The water was so clear that you could see the bottom even at its deepest point. And cold, just what the doctor ordered on a hot day! Lily has her own mini-kayak and is quite the paddler. Until she gets tired then she just tied herself to the back of her dad's kayak and gets towed around. 

See how clear that water is?

Papa mallard

Mama mallard

This mama merganser has a hitchhiker!

 I got some other cool and unique shots over the past week as well.

Hen sitting on a nest

Snake in the brush!

Of all the pictures I took this is my favorite of the week....

Mount Shasta

I also received a couple of tips on how to take pictures of flying birds from my last North Dakota post. (Thanks Dianne and Ingrid!) Both were very helpful and improved my shots. Here are a few example of ones I got this week. 

They actually turned out a little better than they appear here for some reason when I attached them to the blog they were a little distorted. 

Forrest was fishing while I paddled around and took pictures. He caught a pretty nice Rainbow trout the other day, he wanted his picture taken with it so I paddled over there just in time to get this shot as the fish jumped out of his hand and back into the water!

During the heat of the day we have been working inside on a remodeling project. It is a rather big one that will take several weeks to complete. I am not going to take pictures of our progress but will share before and after pictures when (and if) we get done. One smaller project we got done this week was the installation of a new exterior door downstairs. 

Things are starting to open up around Klamath Falls. Hair salons opened with week so Somer and Lily went in for a cut and whatever else women get done with their hair. 

Lily's new hair cut

Daisy gave us a little scare the other day. She had not been eating all her food so we started to get concerned. She is 12 ½ years old (like 87 in people years). She is also slowing down a little but still pretty active. We found two things that might be the cause of her not eating all her food. She has a broken tooth that is just kinda hanging there. I tried pulling it out but it is pretty tight and I did not want to yank too hard. We have a vet appointment this Saturday to get that taken care of. We also did a little experiment and she will eat steak, bacon and other people food with great excitement and the tooth does not seem to be bothering her so we ruled that out as the cause of her not eating.

Then one day I saw her out in the yard eating something. Forrest and Somer have about 5 acres fenced in to keep the sheep in which is also nice as we can let the dogs wander outside all day too. So I wandered over to see what she was eating and she was going to town on a pile of sheep sh#t like it was a filet mignon! No wonder she is not eating, she is eating Sheep Snacks all day long! I laugh now thinking of all the times she has licked Barb’s face over the past week!

I too have a health issue I have been dealing with. Now, I don’t typically talk about my aches and pains but this one is particularly annoying. For the past two weeks I have had shooting pains from my elbow to the tips of my fingers and there is a spot on my elbow that hurts like hell when I touch it. I am sure it is just a tendon issue that will go away with time but I went onto the Google and see if I could figure out what caused it. After extensive research I was able to find this flow chart which I think pretty much nails down what I have……

I guess there is only one thing left to do, go have a beer!