The bears did not cooperate

I had taken a recent drive to the Ya Ha Tinda part of the province west of Sundre, Alberta hoping to see some bears on the forestry road. No bears but some great fall colours.

September

The time does, and does not, fly by. Time recently dragged as somehow I hurt myself somehow through day to day living and was raiding my painkillers for a number of days. I look back at summer and there was more that I wanted to accomplish. With luck I can squeeze some activities into the fall.

Life gets in the way of adventures. I recently found out that the wife of a friend of mine has a third recurrence of cancer. This time it is inoperable. Treatments will start again, there is no telling how long she has, maybe a few years. I had tried to meet up a few times this year, our schedules did not match.

My cousin’s daughter has kind of adopted me. We had kept in contact through the years. When I had the accident she visited me several times in the hospital and has kept tabs on me on a regular basis and we have become closer. I am happy to have someone looking out for me and have been bringing her up to speed on my personal matters should anything nasty happen to me again. Her and her husband work hard and have two great kids. They have a small farm and she raised some turkeys. She did not have the time to kill and prep the birds so she had someone do it for her, a business called Mother Pluckers. Love the name.

White Super Power Truck

Big old truck in Forget, Saskatchewan.

Michael Truman

Past Presence Website

Random notes

Not the greatest summer. Temperature has dropped. It has been overcast and rainy.

Friends of mine sold their home in Calgary and are moving to the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia. They have a vague outline of a plan about what they want to do and how they are going to do it. They have no home to move to yet, they have not found a place, and no jobs waiting for them. They are going to crash with some friends and relatives until they get it sorted out. Any other people doing this I would worry about, they can do something with nothing and land on their feet. I drove down to squeeze in a visit and wish them luck.

I am having issues with my only sibling. Every once in a while every so many years somehow I get labelled with being responsible for some kind of vaguely defined mistreatment and get disowned for an indeterminate amount of time. The amusing part is I have really do not have much interaction and I have enough of my own problems without causing more. For the last few years I have been concentrating on my recovery and the last in person visits we had were enjoyable. Since I am not interested in indulging this I shall wait it out and see how long this latest instalment lasts. I am sure that I am not the only one with family issues.

I got out more this summer compared to last despite the lousy weather. My legs are stronger and I am more confident in my walking and gaining stamina. It ain’t great but it is incrementally getting better.

I made a recent visit to the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital in Edmonton where I spent five months. I dropped in to remind myself how far I came. I saw a few nurses and therapists that I knew from my time there. I wanted to show them my progress and thank them. I still have a ways to go. For some reason I thought it was important to do this. Speaking to them just reinforced that I have to just keep at it one foot after the other and it will keep getting better.

Tried to catch some harvest lines