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gentle morning happiness
Jun. 8th, 2023 09:25 amDrinking hot coffee, taking a few more minutes to relax before I jump in the shower and head to work.
Had a lovely morning, did a little bit of exercise with Josh, did all the dishes and prepped the kitchen for Josh's day, cooked a sweet potato, made sure he has nourishment while I am off at work. The scale is the lowest I've seen it since the holidays, and I'm less than half a pound away from my birthday lightness goal (I like to think of it as gaining lightness rather than losing anything), which is making aerial silks easier and more fun, which is the ultimate reason I want to be lighter - to feel better and be able to do more fun things with my body.
This despite wonderful things like tacos and dark chocolate and fun mocktails at the Roses in Wonderland event on Tuesday. Tyler was such a perfect date, we had such a nice time. A girl told him he looked like Elijah from Vampire Diaries/The Originals and I can see it, actually.
Yesterday I had my morning PT, put together a couple of orders, and met up with Tyler and ran off to Mt Hood to scope out the mushroom situation in one of our favorite areas. We were a little quick to decide that things didn't look hopeful at our favorite campground/trail system, and our usual favorite road came up dry also, so Tyler found a new trail we'd never been on, and since I was looking for some elevation gain, we walked about 800' up scouting out that trail. It was a bit toasty and exposed, but covered in wildflowers and soooo many butterflies, scraggly oaks and a variety of pine and fir trees, unfamiliar bird songs, with rocky outcroppings and meadowy openings here and there. It was complete delight.
At the top, I suggested, "let's do a loop!" with the idea of returning, but upon looping, we found our first porcini - aka "spring bolete" or "king bolete" - they were enormous! We had found a couple of signs of old wormy eaten ones further down but nothing viable until this loop. he found them but I directed us around the loop so, we made a good team. we couldn't decide which direction to keep going, once we understood we were in a good spot, but as soon as we chose a direction, more mushrooms popped into view. Eventually we came across an old logging camp, and explored the shady homey opening with hand hewn benches and such, and as we were just deciding there was nothing there and started to turn to go, I ran straight into the two largest boletes I've ever myself found. yay! So we stayed and kept exploring a little more. Found a few more and the roads branching out from the camp were pretty with a constantly changing variety of foliage and trees and occasional views opening out over the valleys below.
we returned to our loop and headed the other direction for a little while, found nothing, did one more loop, and I found one perfect bolete on the way out that he had walked right past. It was so obvious and so directly in his walking path that I asked if he'd left it behind for me on purpose - they really do turn invisible and then pop into sight at random.
It is confounding how easy they are to miss, we probably walked past dozens, tbh.
it's so much fun! These are choice delicacies and unfortunately Tyler's system doesn't tolerate them well, so my fridge is now bursting with the beauties. So exciting!
I fed Tyler some home cooked food and some fancy snacks during the long drive; apple slices and chicken thighs and black rice and chia seed rice crackers. I drove. I played some John Muir for us in the car, and some music. I tried to take good care of him.
He rewarded me with tacos for dinner when we got home.
The coolest thing about the trip was that from the time we turned off the highway, to the time we got back onto it, we did not see one single vehicle or human the entire. day. we were out for 7 hours. not a soul.
One majestic stunning beautiful perfect massive young buck elk was standing on the road, radiantly reddish golden brown in the evening sunlight, as I rounded a corner on our way back. I slowed to a stop and we gawked in amazement until he gently bounded across the road and up a hill and away. He was so big! We had seen signs of rutting on a tree but decided it couldn't have bene an elk because the damage to the little tree was so high, but after seeing him, we decided he probably could have done it, I think his antlers reached perhaps almost nine feet? And if he was up on his hind legs to rub his antlers, he could reach much higher easily. Those things are so massive. And so beautiful.
Ah gotta shower and run to work, busy next few days ahead! Hope I can get some relaxation in between all the gogogo.
Warm morning coffee is the bessssssst.
Had a lovely morning, did a little bit of exercise with Josh, did all the dishes and prepped the kitchen for Josh's day, cooked a sweet potato, made sure he has nourishment while I am off at work. The scale is the lowest I've seen it since the holidays, and I'm less than half a pound away from my birthday lightness goal (I like to think of it as gaining lightness rather than losing anything), which is making aerial silks easier and more fun, which is the ultimate reason I want to be lighter - to feel better and be able to do more fun things with my body.
This despite wonderful things like tacos and dark chocolate and fun mocktails at the Roses in Wonderland event on Tuesday. Tyler was such a perfect date, we had such a nice time. A girl told him he looked like Elijah from Vampire Diaries/The Originals and I can see it, actually.
Yesterday I had my morning PT, put together a couple of orders, and met up with Tyler and ran off to Mt Hood to scope out the mushroom situation in one of our favorite areas. We were a little quick to decide that things didn't look hopeful at our favorite campground/trail system, and our usual favorite road came up dry also, so Tyler found a new trail we'd never been on, and since I was looking for some elevation gain, we walked about 800' up scouting out that trail. It was a bit toasty and exposed, but covered in wildflowers and soooo many butterflies, scraggly oaks and a variety of pine and fir trees, unfamiliar bird songs, with rocky outcroppings and meadowy openings here and there. It was complete delight.
At the top, I suggested, "let's do a loop!" with the idea of returning, but upon looping, we found our first porcini - aka "spring bolete" or "king bolete" - they were enormous! We had found a couple of signs of old wormy eaten ones further down but nothing viable until this loop. he found them but I directed us around the loop so, we made a good team. we couldn't decide which direction to keep going, once we understood we were in a good spot, but as soon as we chose a direction, more mushrooms popped into view. Eventually we came across an old logging camp, and explored the shady homey opening with hand hewn benches and such, and as we were just deciding there was nothing there and started to turn to go, I ran straight into the two largest boletes I've ever myself found. yay! So we stayed and kept exploring a little more. Found a few more and the roads branching out from the camp were pretty with a constantly changing variety of foliage and trees and occasional views opening out over the valleys below.
we returned to our loop and headed the other direction for a little while, found nothing, did one more loop, and I found one perfect bolete on the way out that he had walked right past. It was so obvious and so directly in his walking path that I asked if he'd left it behind for me on purpose - they really do turn invisible and then pop into sight at random.
It is confounding how easy they are to miss, we probably walked past dozens, tbh.
it's so much fun! These are choice delicacies and unfortunately Tyler's system doesn't tolerate them well, so my fridge is now bursting with the beauties. So exciting!
I fed Tyler some home cooked food and some fancy snacks during the long drive; apple slices and chicken thighs and black rice and chia seed rice crackers. I drove. I played some John Muir for us in the car, and some music. I tried to take good care of him.
He rewarded me with tacos for dinner when we got home.
The coolest thing about the trip was that from the time we turned off the highway, to the time we got back onto it, we did not see one single vehicle or human the entire. day. we were out for 7 hours. not a soul.
One majestic stunning beautiful perfect massive young buck elk was standing on the road, radiantly reddish golden brown in the evening sunlight, as I rounded a corner on our way back. I slowed to a stop and we gawked in amazement until he gently bounded across the road and up a hill and away. He was so big! We had seen signs of rutting on a tree but decided it couldn't have bene an elk because the damage to the little tree was so high, but after seeing him, we decided he probably could have done it, I think his antlers reached perhaps almost nine feet? And if he was up on his hind legs to rub his antlers, he could reach much higher easily. Those things are so massive. And so beautiful.
Ah gotta shower and run to work, busy next few days ahead! Hope I can get some relaxation in between all the gogogo.
Warm morning coffee is the bessssssst.
