COVID! YES? NO? MAYBE? NOT!!!!!!

 Firstly, I apologize for the husband I mistakenly gave you Sherri!!! I took a good second look and he isn't even close to Michael.  I way prefer YOUR husband!!! And Monte has decided to try his hand at;kombucha and I was telling him about that moonshine with the ginseng in it! I did have a wee cup of it....bleh!!!!! I think it was their version of kombucha.  It was def tea based!

It has been a pretty good week.  Turkey dinner turned out great and pretty easy.  Prepping the day before, or two days before in my case, sure made it easier.  Trouble is I have never been able to eat right immediately after all the cooking.  I just can't.  So I sat with Monte and Ange, dished it up onto my plate, pushed the food around, and after about an hour when we were in the living room I went and grabbed my dinner and totally enjoyed it.  What a tool.

Monte, through his entire life, becomes obsessed with things..for periods of time.  When he was young it was lightening, then weather in general, then the Nazis history, etc....As an adult I can give you two examples...fountain or cartridge pens.  Holy Hannah!!!  I don't know how many he has now and all types of ink.  And then after a month or two, boink! it stops.  He still loves them but the obsession is over!

Then recently he had a shorter obsession with Casio watches.  Jeez, he spent hours watching YouTube videos of specialists reviewing and talking about them.  He bought two for himself and one for me.  And mine has an alarm we can't turn off.  It goes off every single morning at 6:00 am.  Yup.  Fortunately they are not expensive at all.  They are in the twenty dollar range.  One thing I can say though is that by the time his obsessions are over he truly knows every possible single thing about the subject.  Everything! 

And currently, and this one is an old one he's revisiting, are film cameras and photography in general.  He took photography at high school and then again in college.  I have a feeling this one will last, like his music has.

So, that being said he has dragged me, willingly!, to some pretty interesting places for picture taking.  The latest one was up a steep hilly road to where the cell tower for the Coombs/Errington area is.  OMG!!!  The subsequent canyon off the edge of the cliff was as deep as the Grand Canyon.

Now I am not generally afraid of heights.  Reasonable heights.  This canyon and the Grand Canyon are NOT reasonable heights.  And I suffer from horrible vertigo.  I have actually fallen into lakes etc...because of vertigo.  And I don't like to blame it, but it could be part of the cause of my always falling at inappropriate places and times.

And there is one thing that definitely makes the scary experience way way way worse and that is to have one of my kids there.  I don't care if they are two or twenty or fifty years old.  I just get a panic dead weight in my gut and start to shake.

So I get out of the van with Mr. Man and hike up the remaining hill to the top and holy jeez!!!!!!  I almost fainted.  I think I would have been okay staying away from the edge etc...if Monte hadn't been there.  I snapped a few pics then I had to go back down to the van.  I just couldn't stay there.  God!  What a weenie!!!  I will put my three or four pics at the bottom of this.

At turkey dinner, as we sat down, Monte mentioned that he had a terrible headache.  A really really bad one.  I suggested he use one of our test thingies and test for covid.  He did and it came back positive!!!!  My immediate feeling was relief. Finally we could just get it over with and stop frigging hiding from the elusive killing monster that was so disrupting our life.  But a few minutes later he said it went to negative.  So he slowly and carefully did a second test and it was definitely negative.  So back to dodging and ducking the viral monster.  We are just having to adjust to a new way of living.  It certainly cured us of shopping trips!  Not that I was much of a shopper before covid.

Well it is now afternoon.  Monte will be up soon and dragging me, again willingly, out the door.  He has somewhere new he wants to show me.  His friend he has reconnected with, Bryce, has lived here all his life and knows all the interesting awesome hidyholes and shows them to Monte.  I have hauled out Buster, my old old Nikon D90 and dusted it off.  That old camera has been around the world more than once with me.  I have to smack the lens now and then to get it to work, but it always does.  I need a new camera and I know what I am going to get.  More on that next time.

No food chat today.  Aren't you lucky???!!!!!  Take care, stay healthy and TTYL

'The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.'  Susan Sontag...on photography

I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THIS STUPID BLOGSPOT DOESN'T PUT THE PICS ON IN ORDER.  HOW HARD CAN IT BE FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE!!!!!

THAT IS AS CLOSE AS I WOULD GET

EGADS!  I CAN HARDLY EVEN LOOK AT THE PIC!

AND THEN THERE IS A VERY MISPLACED PIC.  SLEEPING BARRELS.  I ALMOST DIED LAUGHING WHEN I SAW THESE.

LEAVING NOW....SO FREAKING SCARY

MADRONAS, OR ARBUTUS TREES.  I WISH PICS SHOWED THEIR AMAZING COLOUR

THIS AMAZING RAINBOW MET US WHEN WE GOT HOME

THIS WAS MY FAVE SHOT OF THE DAY