Im Back in the Saddle Again Rock
Aerosmith song running through my head this morn. Actually, yesterday, from about 1 pm on, this song was in my head, as I was trying to terminate all the things (I didn't finish, in case y'all were wondering. I can just about teach what I need to today, although I demand to make one assignment and one video, maybe two, before school starts. At ix AM.). I did manage to do almost no school on Sat…Friday was a fleck hitting or miss. I had plans to become some posts washed before school and and so leave by 9 AM, merely there was a Zoomergency (an emergency involving Zoom, not a zoo) and I spent that time trying to go my guest teacher access to my online classes. Then has the right eye stopped twitching? It has not. It probably volition not until June eighteen. I'one thousand trying.
I drove over 3 hours, through traffic, construction, up a mountain road, and then up a dirt road…
2.three miles, where the PCT crosses, I institute the man. He was kinda muddied and a little smelly (actually not likewise bad, considering), and has lost a lot of weight.
We ate some food and checked into our AirBnb, which overlooked an airstrip (it was kinda absurd watching the lilliputian planes country and take off). The place we ate had Marilyn Monroe in the bathroom…
Like you do.
He showered and started laundry and we just sort of hung out together, because it's hard to have full conversations via text and even worse via Garmin, because there'southward a fourth dimension lag, and y'all're never really sure what conversation you're on when you become an reply sometimes. So nosotros needed to catch up and clarify.
Our AirBnb had a nosy neighbor…
Yup. That's a goat.
The man did some planning and spacing out and talking and I did some cutting out of the new art quilt…
Dinner on the first night included these…
OK, we didn't really consume those. But laughed at them. Sabbatum, we drove to all the places to endeavour to notice him food (four places for that) and pants that were smaller that might stay up (no success at that place). We didn't go to the lake or do any touristy things. We pretty much hung out. Similar back in the 24-hour interval when you first started dating. But hang out on the burrow and talk and lookout videos.
And for me, cutting more stuff out. The flesh is all done. I'one thousand down in the World stuff, which is a lot of little pieces and volition have a while.
We went to dinner early on, so we could hang out (some more) in the jacuzzi, which had a tad too much chlorine in it…
OK, a shit-ton too much chlorine. Simply it was warm and overnice.
And then the next morning, we got upwardly actually early and had breakfast and saw three bald eagles fly over us every bit we walked back to the house, and then drove up this damn dirt road again and saw 3 deer. He hasn't seen larger wildlife…just heard information technology. Ironic that we saw those in the car. I'm sure he'll run across them in the time to come.
It's pretty up here…
Some role of me would love to just drop my chore and become the hell out of this business firm and follow, but I tin't. I'thou glad he'due south doing it, because although he has bad days, low moments, shitty stuff that happens, in general, he's finding peace in his head and trying to figure out his future. All skillful things. All big things.
He was smile only earlier this. I swear. I retrieve he was feeling the weight of 5 dinners and 4 liters of h2o in his pack and thinking about that.
And then he took off up the path. Both of us were sad nigh that office, merely that is a adept chunk of this trip, missing each other. Not much nosotros can do well-nigh that function but go on trying to meet upwards (not an piece of cake task every bit he gets farther away, for sure). We take tentative plans for 3 weeks from now, and then information technology will be after school gets out. I'll have some more leeway then, but the drives get significantly longer.
See, that's the PCT face up…he's looking proficient, looking happy, enjoying (for the nearly office) the trail…and the trip. After I dropped him off, he did 14.eight miles and ended up here.
It's a good thing…a hard affair for both of united states of america, simply good.
Meanwhile, I have to grab upwards on piece of work this week (ugh) and keep cutting out pieces (not so ugh). I'yard however tired…went to bed early on last night and still don't feel rested. Not great.
The animals were glad to see me back, though, and then that's a affair. I laid on the floor with the cats and watched birds for a bit with them.
Aye. I know. Weird. I like seeing things from their viewpoint sometimes though.
OK, buried in piece of work today. My guest teacher did fine, except he marked anybody absent who was actuallyin grade, so I'g trying to become through that mess. Hopefully making it to the art stuff tonight though. We'll see. And missing the human being. Sigh. In that location's a lot of that going on.
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