Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy family.

I guess there isn't much of a point of wearing a Halloween costume up here. Unless I'm a raccoon.

"It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog."
Mark Twain

Field mice carry fleas. I had to give Foxfire a bath today in the stream. I'm covered in flea bites. Ugh

Don't worry. Just be.

Today was a good day. Blue skies and feeling fine

Way to go, everyone! Huge turnouts from small towns to big cities all across the country!

“He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”

—Saint Francis of Assisi

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Thoreau

"And yet women –– good women –– frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep." Bukowski

🐈 At Foxglove Farm in upstate New York, Cinamen the orange tabby doesn’t just lounge—he leads Airbnb guests on Appalachian Trail hikes, keeping them on path and occasionally judging their pace. Who knew a cat could double as a furry concierge? (Upworthy, Backpacker)

Some great books I listened to in 2024: the Outlander books (9 books plus the Lord John series), The Salt Path and The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn, Trail of the Lost by Andrea Lankford, The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck, High and Low: How I Hiked Away From Depression Across Scotland by Keith Foskett