Jamul Sunset
Jamul Sunset
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Thanksgiving, 2016
I spent Thanksgiving in Austin with Lisa and Jorge, Mom, Marie, Kate, and Roy. It was a great family reunion. In a few hikes I noted very clear water and fish, turtles, frogs, and birds. One open comb bee hive was high on a cliff. We rode the Glass Bottom Boats at Texas State / San Marcos Springs. I walked the Barton Creek Greenway between Zilker and Twin Falls, as well as the Violet Crown Trail to US290.
Dorothy, Mom, Marie, Kate, Dan, and Tim
Florida Canoeing
There were 2 trips to Canoe in the Florida Everglades, which have separate reports.
December - January Florida Canoe Trip
March Florida Canoe Trip
Wood Grain
I rebuilt this Electric Panel last year.
Jamul, Gene
This winter and last I stayed with Gene in Deerhorn Valley. A trailer there was a great, quiet place to read, write, and plan. Ranch work was fun too. Last year we repaired many things and mowed grass, while the focus this year was on lopping / thinning brush and trees.
I trimmed many Sumac Bushes, Oak Trees, etcetera with loppers and Chain Saws. Here, Gene mulches stacks of cut branches with a Brush Hog. 5' wide x 3' high debris piles totaled several hundred feet long. |
Mom, Marie
I often visited mom in Vista, who was recovering from a back problem / fall. On the same trips, I visited Marie, Kate, and Roy in Carlsbad.
Barb Wire
Hiking
Travelling to and from Vista, I often stopped to walk at Batiquitos Lagoon, or the San Dieguito River Park by the coast or Lake Hodges.
Sunset at Batiquitos Lagoon
| Winter Reading | ||
|---|---|---|
| Potomac Heritage Trail, C&O Canal, Great Allegheny Passage | ||
| The C&O Canal Companion | Mike High | 2015 |
| Chesapeake and Ohio Canal | National Parks | 2015 |
| Home on the Canal | Elizabeth Kytle | 1983 |
| Common Labor | Peter Way | 1993 |
| Great Allegheny Passage Trail | Edward Muller | 2009 |
| Canal Boat Children | Ethel Springer | 1923 |
| The Composite Locks | National Parks | 1968 |
| Geology, Engineering Structures, C&O | William Davies | 1989 |
| Double Boat Report | E. Mulvany | 1879 |
| Flood Repair History | Donald Shaffer | 1997 |
| Tracks along the Ditch | Patrick Stakem | 1998 |
| Geology of the C&O | USGS 1691 | 2008 |
| Historic Resource Study: C&O | Harlan Unrau | 2007 |
Raccoon Prints |
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| General Outdoors Reading | ||
| Many Books Borrowed from John / Mother Nature's Son | ||
| Black Elk Lives | DeSersa, Pourier | 2000 |
| Crazy Horse | Mari Sandoz | 1942 |
| William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians | Gregory A. Waselkov | 2002 |
| Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation | John Ehle | 1997 |
| Native Americans Of The Old West | Henry Anatole Grunwald | 1995 |
| Man in the Everglades: 2000 Years of Human History | Charlton W. Tebeau | 1968 |
| Hugh Glass | Bruce Bradley | 2015 |
| The Journals of Patrick Gass: Member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition | Carol Lynn Macgregor | 1997 |
| Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America | Edwin Tappan Adney | 1964 |
| An Illustrated history of Quetico Provincial Park | Shirley F Peruniak | 2000 |
| Suwannee River: Strange Green Land | Cecile Hulse Matschat | 1938 |
| Dangerous River Nahanni NWT | RM Patterson | 1990 |
| Young Men and Fire | Norman MacLean | 1992 |
| Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty | W.L Rusho | 1973 |
| Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle For Survival at the South Pole | Jerri Nielsen | 2002 |
| Between a Rock and a Hard Place | Aron Ralston | 2005 |
| Travels with Charley in Search of America | John Steinbeck | 1980 |
| Walking Softly in the Wilderness: The Sierra Club Guide to Backpacking | John Hart | 1977 |
| Tales of an Empty Cabin | Grey Owl | 1936 |
| Ducks, Geese, and Swans of North America | Frank C Bellrose | 1976 |
| Other | ||
| Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian | Paul F. Knitter | 2013 |
| A History of the Amish | Steven M. Nolt | 1992 |
Leaves
Oak Fungus