Sept 18 Day 6

Woke up to a really cold morning although there was no frost on the tent or on the ground but there was a mysterious white material on the picnic table. David and then voted to go for breakfast at the dinner where Dianne and I had breakfast and talked to the locals about the Blue Healers. Lots and lots of coffee and stuffed hash browns were to delicious. Back at the camp the RV across from us asked if we had a cold night. Yes it was cold we informed them and the woman seemed to laugh at the thought of the two old guy without the brains to get out of the cold.

It was the day to see wild life here is David picture of the quails yesterday.

 On the road there was a deer that jumped up and started running right beside me.  I hope I instilled a fear as much as he scared me as today was the start of bow season, so things will only get worse for him as the season progresses.  Then there was a very lively skunk that showed his butt to Dave as he passed but faced me as I passed.  I guess we did not scare him too badly as he did not spray, thank god.
Talking about hunting, at sunrise we heard a lot of gunshots.  I figured I had gotten the information about bow season wrong.  Late in the day while visiting with people I found it was take a child out duck hunting day.  A one day season for under 12 year old kids.  Note sure how I feel about that I hunted when I was young so I guess it is OK but it does show we are north.

The big news of the day was the horrible roads 13 miles of gravel.  I was celebrating yesterday today I was being very careful.  Then of course there was the ever present headwinds.  At times it seemed to blow me backwards towards David. We stopped for a snack by the side of the river and here is picture of me sitting down thinking how sore my butt is.

Well we did reach Crossby and I was glad of it.  The town has a little campground right by the side of the lake and David and I selected a tent site. Then off to town and antique shopping there were plenty of stores but David did not see anything he needed. I found out the snowshoes I have are worth $85, my fathers old duck decoys are worth something like $100 and best of all the old saw David put up in the local museum was worth $90.  What does it mean when stuff you grew up with is sold as collectibles and antiques,  I am getting old or something like that.

We bought a bottle of red wine and pasta for dinner with beef and watched the sunset while eating dinner.  The only interesting stuff around the campground was watching kids tip over picnic tables by jumping on them and observing that lunching and taking boats out of  the water is difficult if do not have a wife as good at driving a boat as Dianne is.  A beaver and several  ducks swam by and that was about it for the day. 

Thankful for Today
Breakfast was great and really I could call that enough.  But I can't as that was yesterday's thing and beside I have something better.  I thankful I did not fall on the gravel.  I hate that stuff with narrow tires my bike goes left then right, and fishtails everywhere.  I rode slow and steady and we made the 13 miles of gravel with mishap something  to grateful for.  (Just for the record when the last of it done I got off the bike and pissed on the road just to show it!)
Love and Kisses to all
(Please stop sending cold air from Canada)
Allan and David.