Slow Release Rain

That’s as far as we are going up that road.

A good snow storm blew through. Lola and I were caught out digging Willow’s grave. Big flakes, heavy falling straight down, the mountains and valley bottom obscured. By the time it stopped there was about a foot where we were and a few inches in the garden. It will do everything good.

We got Willow’s name carved into a rock. She is going far off the trail. No-one will ever find her unless they know where to look. She would like that.

Crocuses before the snow hit.

The Crocuses are just coming out. I had expected them earlier considering our mild winter. The Osprey’s are back, also on time. The back roads are muddy as the frost comes out of the ground. This is the time I usually get stuck, pushing my luck along the mountain creeks trying to get back to November high. It’s easier when the frost is going into the backroads. Wet snow doesn’t help.

Lola is coming back from a pretty good injury, so her and I just poke about.

This guy will overlook Willow’s spot. She always gave this stump a bark then looked at me embarrassed. I wonder if he knows The Birchman.

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  1. mountaincoward's avatar

    mountaincoward

    Funny how she always barked at that stump with the face! I’m glad she’s going somewhere peaceful where only yourselves will visit.

    We keep getting snowfalls (only thin ones) – one day the mountains are white, the next back to grass again!

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        mountaincoward

        To be honest, a lot of the senior consultants have his attitude – they basically think they’re God and that you know nothing so shouldn’t have any say. The younger ones are great, like the registrars, if you can get one. I did actually have a short session with his young registrar and he listened to everything I said and answered my questions. Unfortunately, then he had to pass me to this guy.

        I went for a hearing test after my last steroids with Boots-the-chemists just so that I could get some results on paper which showed I’m hardly deaf at all when I’ve been treated. Anyway, the guy who did the tests, when he heard what I had to say about the ENT surgeon, said that ENT surgeons are almost all like that!

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