{"id":93,"date":"2011-12-28T14:14:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T22:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.redalderranch.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2011-12-30T21:46:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T05:46:40","slug":"years-end-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.redalderranch.com\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"year’s end"},"content":{"rendered":"

The year is nearly over now, so here’s another lengthy blog post to catch up.<\/p>\n

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There was still a weekend of classes left at the Lumpy Waters Symposium after the Friday surf class that my previous blog post covered. On Saturday, Karl and I taught a class for beginners to get used to rock gardening, and rescuing each other in that environment, and we got to play in a little surf at the end of the day, too. The mouth of the Salmon River in Oregon is a really, really beautiful place. I will definitely go back there again sometime.<\/p>\n

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On Sunday, Amanda I and I led a small group of beginners on a trip to the Three Arches Rocks at Oceanside. There was a strong northwest swell and a building north wind, so we stayed on the south side of the rocks, but we did get to check out the largest arch, and get a little taste of the swell and wind.<\/p>\n

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Once the last Road Scholar trip of the year was over, I moved into the early deer season and started hunting every afternoon. I actually took a shot at a deer this year, for the first time ever, but missed. Mostly, what I brought home every day was chanterelles, which were plenty tasty, but not venison!<\/p>\n

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I also hunted all eleven days of elk season this year, and got close to elk a few times, but not close enough to see my way to a good shot, and I ended the elk season empty handed, too, except for some great pictures and more chanterelles. <\/p>\n

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Next year, for elk season, I’m putting together a small posse, instead of going it alone again. It’s nearly impossible to push an elk towards<\/em> you, when you’re hunting alone.<\/p>\n

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I hunted all four days of late deer season, too, but got faked out by an older, smarter buck, who waited for me to sneak past him, and then doubled back around behind me and vanished. I guess that’s why he’s a four point now.<\/p>\n

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We went to Seattle again for Thanksgiving, and for fun, we took the ferry over to Bremerton on the way home.<\/p>\n

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The weekend after Thanksgiving is when the Solstice Forge Hammer-In<\/a> is every year, with good food, beer and coal fired fun.<\/p>\n

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The timber company that owns the land behind me sent a crew in this fall to clean ditches and maintain roads. They took out a bunch of alder along the road where it passes through my land, so I borrowed the Farmi logging winch from my neighbor Krist and spent a few afternoons bucking and skidding firewood logs into a pile in the pasture. I think I may have about four or five cords of firewood there when I get it all split and stacked. I sure love the Farmi winch<\/a>. Someday I need to own one of these.<\/p>\n

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Way back last February, when Alice and I were on our way back from visiting colleges, my beloved, well-worn Subaru started making horrible engine noises, and when I got home, I parked it with the suspicion that it had a timing belt pulley going bad. <\/p>\n

I ended up driving the Mercedes all summer, and putting the Subaru on the back burner, but then in early November, Shannon flipped and totaled her Toyota when she hit some black ice on KM Mountain. I ended up giving her the Mercedes to get back and forth to town, and finally was forced into dealing with the Subaru. <\/p>\n

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It turned out I was right about the timing belt, and a couple of days and $300 later, I had my Subaru back on the road again. I am so happy to have this car back, with its ipod capable stereo, heavy duty roof rack, working cruise control and all wheel drive. Yay!<\/p>\n

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