Thursday, September 10, 2009

How do you spell excitement?

Peggie is going out to celebrate Maria's birthday tonight. Maria is one of the locals who work the quilt store during the winter.
Don and his company are getting to dine on one of the cruise ships tonight. Sorry Karin.
I will get by somehow. Don't cry for me, Argentina.
The rain today was nearly endless in both time and distance. My wipers whipped back and forth for the whole trip up. At the ranch, it was barely sprinkling. When we went back to pick up the riders, the sun was out there. One of the two riders got tossed. Her horse had been spooky, all the horses were, and at one point she found herself on the ground. Just like when I fell, there was no sense of time between being on the horse and being on the ground. She had been uncomfortable on the spooky horse, so she decided to walk. Put yourself in this place. You are out in the woods in the Yukon. Your horse has just tossed you. The other riders are some distance away. You look to the side and you see a wolf. You see a WOLF! That is how you spell excitement. The wolf went away before she got herself together enough to take a picture. She didn't say so, but this is where I would have started walking real fast.
Shortly thereafter, we saw a flock of Dall sheep, over twenty, on the hill near Spirit Lake. We haven't seen Dall sheep in a long time. Then, 15 miles later, we came around a corner and there was a moose by the road. Moose sightings are very rare, so good one.
Every time the sun found a way through the clouds, however far away, the colors were breathtaking. The colors are now spanning the spectrum and showing up everywhere. There are still lots of green trees, so the color should continue for a while.
It is still raining in Skagway at 6pm.

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