Gray Days

 The weather is gray & dreary, so I've been spending more time with the horses to lift my spirits.

Ambles mane grown fast 

but I'll have to figure out a way to keep Wifi from chewing it all off next summer

Not Christmassy Here

These are some of our trees over the years

We have our tree up this year but no decorations on it, I'm just not in the mood.

Below was our hearth in the Tacoma house, absolutely beautiful.

This year there will be fewer gifts even though I've spent way more.

Maybe next year I'll go all out again.

 

October - November 2022 trip to Nevada

We took a trip with the sxs to Nevada to explore gold mines, only found a few to explore but we were out on the machine every day as much as we could. 

Saw so many sunrises and sunsets, most days we saw both.

Photo below was on the way home in a huge windstorm and dust flying. We were forced off the road at 5:30pm and by 10pm the wind was so hard that NO ONE was driving on the highway. After 1am it relented a bit and we began searing semis passing again. We stayed at the rest area till morning and continued on our way home.

Below is the Pony Express Trail, now a road but I touched it and we rode the sxs on it. BUCKET LIST.

I don't know what these are called but they were cool looking. We had to drive through some flooded area to get there. I have had a 20x30 print of one of these made that I'll have framed to gift to him for Christmas.

God I love this man.

This is a building in Pioche, Nevada. 

There was cell service on top of this hill out in the desert in the middle of nowhere

This place in in Pioche as well and we might buy it.

There is no one on earth I'd rather take a vacation with, he is just a perfect partner for me.

We literally took this photo so if we disappeared & died, they would find this photo & say 

'This is the last picture of them'; it was right after we had ridden about a half hour on switchbacks way up from the desert floor to the almost top of a mountain, just before we hiked up a half mile from the sxs to a mine, right at sunset

 

This SURPRISE Was Awesome

Lan surprised me with a trip up to the top of the 

Tacoma Narrows Bridge

It's been on my bucket list since 1986

We were driven by Daniel on the pedestrian walkway to the first set of towers on the new bridge

First we went down and walked around the caissons, supports

The tower on the right is the only part remaining from Galloping Gertie

Here we are in the elevator. It measured about 3'x4'

Here I am climbing out the hatch onto the top of the tower

Tacoma behind me

Thats the top of the old bridge

Climbing up to the tippy top, where the cables are

I touched the red light!

Click on the photo and you'll see the red arrow pointing at the red light I touched

 

When A Surprise Is Imminent

 Lan told me two days ago that he's been planning a surprise for me for 2 years 

and today he's going to spring it on me. 

All I know is we will go to Tacoma.

I'll need my hiking boots and a jacket

(it's raining and chilly)

And that's it.

In an hour or two it shall begin.

Been Quiet Here

Amble has her own chicken

Seriously, it seems to always be with her

I sbought 2 toy horses, painting them to look like her.

Obviously theres a lot left to paint

but I'm having fun doing it. At work, in my spare time.

Speaking of work, I fucked up my bid & I'll be working Vashon Island. Ugh.

I'll have to ride a fucking boat to get there & those fuckers are ALWAYS late.

Its only 3 months though and I'll keep trying to get back to Bremerton with the temp bids.