With apologies to Robert Frost, for once that option looked better. The trail to the East Pole yesterday was the best it has ever been, smooth, no ruts, few moguls and I made it to all the way and three fourths of the way up the hill to the cabin in about half an hour. On a good day in the past, it usually took about 40 minutes just to the beginning of my trail.
The other fourth? Well that took a little longer, three lightering trips to get everything up the hill then a trek down and a lot of shoveling to free the snowmachine. But, no complaints. That was the farthest I ever got for the first trip in pulling a load. I might have made it all the way if a moose hadn't scratched around and probably slept, making a huge hole at a crucial point in the trail where I have to turn sharply uphill from a side hill. So it goes.
A welcoming crowd greeted me. The chickadees came around even before I could get the feeder out. Today there are a couple of dozen crowding the place, sometimes three at a time on the feeder, though aggressive ones often chase the others away. Everywhere in the nearby trees you can see motion where those waiting to come in flit about among snow covered branches. Most of them show no fear of me whatsoever. They keep coming even when I am working close to them on the porch. The chopping block is just about under the feeder and I can hear their wing beats overhead. One even crashed into my hat. Not many people here so they have no reason for fear.
MATHEMATICAL CONVERGENCE
The electronic thermometer here saves the highest and lowest temperatures recorded since it was turned on or the batteries changed. The highest temperature recorded over the past month was plus 32 degrees F. The lowest? Minus 32 degrees F.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE: When did National Public Radio decide to go all Trump, all the time. I usually have NPR on most of the day and into the night. For one thing being tight against a hill directly to the south most other radio broadcasts don't reach the cabin. I've always enjoyed it, at least until the last trip and this one. Incessantly all day long one pundit after another gets interviewed either interpreting what Trump has done or predicting what he will do. No facts, no news just opinions that are no better than mine for that matter. I give it this, if I yell at the radio once, OK, but if I yell a second time the radio goes off and silence takes over. I didn't come out here to have analysts pounding that criminal into my head all day long. NPR needs to take a path lest traveled.
We've recently shared the same observation about NPR. Is it intentionally sucking up to DJT to try and avoid cuts in its funding? We've been listening to it since it was available here in the early 80s. A friend and I co-chaired the Boise State Radio fund-drive in 1988 and got the most amount of money in the shortest time they'd had at that time. This morning we were talking about trying to find a new means to wake up for work. I've been hating it since even before the election. Since the election it's been like putting your forehead on an anvil and having someone pound the back of it with a hammer.
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