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Robin, you've gotta get your glasses changed!

Dot

I don't think it's the glasses that are causing the problem here ...

PEBCAK?

Dot

PEBCAK?

Got me on that one! I was thinking either Partzheimer's or CRS Syndrome.

I believe that sort of complex syndrome is referred to as a triad.

Dot

End of gripe.

Well-griped it was! You deserve it ... enjoy!

Yep up here where the deer and the antelope still play and there are more elk than there are people.   A unique little oasis,   just have to accept the cold.  

They say that we have nine months of winter and two shoulder seasons of mud and one month of summer which is July.    A few years ago I woke up on the fourth of July to see inches of snow blanketing everything  lo.    It did not last mind you  but it was not just a powder sugar coating it was inches.   Was funny to see the cheerleader in the fourth of July parade with snow on sides of street in shadows where the sun had not yet done its duty.

I have been here 14 years and it has snowed one year or another in every month of the year.  You can't put your flowers in until June First is the guideline.    Last year I was running around covering flowers I had planted on June 1,  to protect from frost on June 12.

Its a trade off.  I miss the beach I lived close to for 15 years of my life.    But its very nice to see deer in the front yard ( unless they are munching on your bushes)   and moose walking down the street in the winter,  or have a bald Eagle sitting in a tree across the street watching you eat  Thanksgiving dinner.  The elk reserve is on the other side of the hospital which is across the street and you can watch 10,000 elk in the winter.   There was a big panic when one of the wolf packs found the elk reserve,    but the elks simply form a  circle tails to the center, antlers out pointing down and the wolf pack had no luck and left.

Beats that city driving in heavy traffic let me tell you.

Monty, we spent about a year-and-a-half living in a rural section of New York's Catskills mountains, which was quite an interesting experience, similar to yours in some ways, although not quite as isolated and not as ruggedly spectacular.  I'm not sure I would want to repeat it, but it was fun at the time!

Ahh well Im not quite so rugged.   Actually living in town instead of the woods.   I like all the modern niceities of electricity and conveniences close at hand.   But I do enjoy the proximity to be able to indulge in walks in the woods and occassional camping forages and indulge in the more rugged atmosphere on a "visitors" basis.   Im not one particularly thrilled by the site of a Grizzly bear,  even through binoculars and if he is walking in my direction even 300 yards away Im vacating the area.

Catskills are also remarkably beautiful.     Do the bears play there as well?   :-)

Well I think that s a more tolerable climate.  I have adjusted to this one but still miss sunsents on the beach and sailing on the ocean.       Part time a year would be nice here but its not affordable anymore.  47% of the populations earns their income from "other" -- trust funders.  Less than 2% of the land is available to build on which translates to ever escalating housing costs.  I squeeked into one on some white lies and prayers and its tripled in value which will give me my escape funds once the kids are out.   It was a great place to raise kids.

Jackson has not had as much snow the last few years as when I arrived here but it has its moments.  We did have an inch an hour for 72 hours a few years back.  That locked us in for three days, no air, no roads in or out,  although the city streets were plowed at once.  No lost school days.  They do a phenomenal job of that here.

Yikes on the bear in the back yard.