BADDECK RIVER WALK

DANCING MIST ON LAKE O'LAW

Katherine Anne Porter said, after she had finished her only novel, Ship Of Fools, “I finished the damn thing but I think I sprained my soul.”
Larry Gibbons, me, who has just submitted a fairly long novel to a publisher is saying to you, “I finished the damn thing but I don’t think I can concentrate long enough to write much in this blog.”
So it will be short but with some good photos I trust you'll enjoy.

GETTING READY FOR WINTER

Following the above statements, I stopped reading all difficult books, did not turn on the news until six pm and began to hike and bike instead of read and write. And because of switching over to the physical instead of the mental got two great animal photos.
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DEER IN A HURRY

FAMILY ON TRAIL NEAR MABOU

This summer I hurt my good knee; it wasn’t from a dangerous game of hockey. It was from a dangerous game of gardening. And, I think I had a senior’s moment when I hurt my knee because I’m not sure how I hurt it. Pretty sure it was from gardening. Maybe digging with the shovel or standing and stooping. However, I also had imbibed on a few beers so there is an outside chance that I hurt it when I was splitting wood. When the axe bounced out of my hand and the handle might have struck my left knee. However, it didn’t hurt that much. Still it was a niggling injury and it took a few months just to get it to stop reacting to my walking. Fortunately, biking didn’t seem to bother it too much. The knee still holds a grudge toward my exercising it.
Can you imagine the confusion I sowed in the Chiropractor’s professional mind when I tried to explain all this to him?

SUE & BUSTER BY BADDECK RIVER

Anyway, I got a call from a friend who asked me to go Baddeck River walking with her and another friend. I told her I'd hurt my knee. She said that the river bottom was mostly flat, that the rocks were mostly pebbles and the river was mostly shallow. She was accurate to a point, but I have to tell you that to avoid hurting my knee again I needed a great deal of heavy duty concentration.
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EASY HIKING

Plus we had to climb a very nasty trail up the side of a mountain. 
I also learned that swimming in a pair of heavy duty hiking boots is not easy nor is it good for the hiking boots.
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AMEN