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I KNOW I AM GETTING OLD! 44 YEARS OLD AND THE CLOCK KEEPS TICK TOCKING....
JUST HAD A THOUGHT RUN THRU MY MIND...
WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO MY 8 TRACK COLLECTION?
BURIED IN A TIME CAPSULE
WITH MY SONIC MULE
AND RAINBOW SUSPENDERS
MY CASSETTES
AND OLD RCA MUSIC CLUB POSTERS...
BACK IN THE REAGAN ERA
THE COLD WAR RAGING
I WAS IN THE ARMY RESERVE
A SKINNY KID ABOUT TO CATAPULT INTO HIS MID 30'S
LONG BEFORE I MET MY PSYCHO GIRLFRIEND
LONG BEFORE THE INTERNET CAME BETWEEN US...
THOSE 8 TRACKS ARE PROBABLY DEAD....
Okay I had a CRAZY ASS night last night! A storm rolled through first. Not a big deal. Then I was attacked by that Bull Snake! Fucker! And then about the time it is now maybe latter, I hear this massive amount of crashing and bangs outside! I live down in a hallow folks with two small wooded areas that keep my house from being known by most folks that travel the hiway. My aunt and uncle live up on the hill near the hiway.
All of a sudden, Spud the new dog who is predominatly inside goes ballistic and trying to get out my bedroom window which is two stories up and Dooley my Great Dane Puppy is out on his chain just whinning and howling! I go running out side to investigate. I know I know! The first mistake of ANY horror movie. And I HATE and do NOT watch horror movies because of the blante stupidity in them! Okay and i get all girly girl and get scared! I am still hearing this crashign and banging and it is coming from the bigger set of woods on the northeast of the house that blocks us from the hiway. I run up and get my puppy off the chain and follow him racing back into the house. All the while checking for snakes mind you!
I have one dog going ballistic aggressive trying to get towards the trees and another dog so scared he is huddled under my feet while I am in the chat room. The whole time I am thinking Big Foot is in my woods and I pist him off! Yes, I am a firm believer in Big Foot! I get the kids into the comp room with me, sniffing the whole time when I can to see if I can smell Rotten Eggs (older folks and the tribal elders say big foot stinks like rotten eggs) and smell nothing! While still in chat cause I am NOT about to let a Big Furrie chase me out of my house; I call my auntie knowing she would still be up and hoping she was even home since it is harvest time. Randy is still gone and my folks down in OK! I am all by myself here!
Thankfully she was home. She was hearing the noises also and it spooked her. I told her exactly how the dogs were acting and how bad the noises were. She radioed my uncle and cousins and told them to get here ASAP! She called back and said your uncle and cousins are coming via the work truck on the hiway and they are sending Nick, Alex, Brian, and Mike via the fourwheelers through the fields from the farm to your house. So don't shoot any lights coming out of the field! BEcause by that time I busted out the Marlin 30/30 repeatin rifle and had it loaded and my dad's 12 gage winchestor shot gun of course loaded. The noises were continuing! All of a sudden i see an occasional light bobbing out of the south window and realize that the hiredmen were blazing over (actually not that far if you go through the fields and country roads like 3-4 miles at the most) and the noises stop! Completely!
Then I hear a truck come blazing down the lane but it stops on my drive next to the woods and the fields. My auntie calls back down says Uncle told her to call county and our neighbor (one of the county deputeis that usually protals the far east side) is on his way and that she is not sticking around for nothing and is heading to her daughter's house. I was free to come along. I stayed cause everythign I needed to do this mornign was down here for the most part and she lives near the city. My Uncle leaves Nick on my front porch and Brian outside my front door and the rest of the hired men, my cousins and uncle and the county deputry go into the woods. AGain they aren't very big woods but very very dense. They find nobody or no creature but my uncle did find some very healthy walnut, oak, and cottonwoods downed. Trees that Randy trimmed and left because they were healthy. Randy had cleaned out the rotton and leaning ones this spring due to the kids being in the woods.
County deputy radioed back and the sheriff was called in because yay we just don't call the cops that often and he knows the family also. Both sheriff and deputy along with my uncle and cousins decieded that one of the hiredmen they really trusted would be using my two man tent and campign otu in my yard under my window near the front porch, closetst to the woods. Someone or somebody was out in those woods. The rest of the hiredmen and my cousins and uncle had to get back to the farm to finish up the nights harvesting. So I got Nick. The one with the hot butt I took a picture of. I went out and helped Nick set up the tent and rounded him up pillows and blankets. After everyone left, Nick came in and asked if it was okay if he invited his g/f over. I had no problem with that. Someone might as well get laid right?
Not more then maybe a half horu passes and a massive storm comes through again and Nick and his woman Shannon are knocking on the door with the blankets. I wasn't about to let them stay out in that storm so they bunked on oen of my hidabeds. Shannon headed out this moring before I was even awake and Nick was filling his thermos with coffee when I wondered downstairs. We all were still freaked out at this time. After I took the kids to school, I came back to the house and meet with county and my uncle. We walked through the woods to see if maybe some of the lil punks from tribal housing wondered up and took a handsaw to these trees (big leap here, the trees were big) or to see if maybe one of them got hit by lightening from the earlier storm and started a chain effect of dominos.
So we go in and all of us are walking the woods looking for any sign of somebody in there. Nothing. No foot prints, not even Big Foots! A lot of OLD deer tracks and a few old rabbit tracks but nothing out of the ordinary. We come upon the first of 3 trees it was like they were pushed over! Roots showing and everythign! Nothing remotely sick or wrong with the roots or the tree! A little ways away no where really near the first tree is the 2nd tree. This one looked like someone tried pushing it over but it busted at the bottom! Again a healthy tree. No scorch marks whats so ever on this tree or the last one. We get to the 3rd tree and it was the same as the first tree! They all landed on some other trees bu those trees were all saplings or young trees. We have a complete mystery here! My auntie is scared out of her mind and is again staying at my cousin's house and I have county showing up every hour or so to do a sweep of the woods for the next few nights.
The guns are staying loaded and near me at all times. The kids have been briefed that they are to stay out of my room due to that fact and thankfully my dad and mom are home. Thank GODS my kids aren't sleep walkers and already have basic gun knowledge. They slept through the entire thing minus me waking them up to move them into the computer room and then moving them back to their rooms about 2 am when I finally got so tired to lay down. I stayed up reading after I left chat!
Let me tell ya, I think I rather have whatever is going on be Big Foot! Then I can at least say the storms aggitated him and he got a bit squirly! No I can't even say that!
It was all worth it though .... as usual geocaching took me someplace I probably never would have gone let alone know about. Our first stop was Mossbrae Falls. From the parking area you hike a mile following active railroad tracks to some of the most awesome falls I've seen. They were spectacular and I can promise that the pictures don't do them justice. There were plenty of people walking this trail yesterday .... and can totally understand why. Thinking a trip in mid-fall would be a great time to go back.
A cool old bridge dated 1901 at the end of the trek to the cache.
One of three trains that went by .....
From the trail you come into an open area to see these falls ..... the water was icy cold ..... but refreshing and much needed to cool down once there.
Another view ....
One of my new favorite places for sure ..... !
Relaxing in the peaceful shady coolness of it all ......
The micro cache ..... just off the trail on the way into / out of the falls.
Train number three ...... two went by when we were at the falls.
This was a very nice spot. Located at the Dunsmuir City Park and Botanical Gardens. Called "Falling Boulders" ..... because just above me was a very precarious looking boulder ...
Hedge Creek Falls. Another awesome spot with lots of folks around. Here you can go into the cave and around back of the falls ..... and into the falls if you wish. I wished and took a very refreshing shower here (clothes on .... don't get any funny ideas .... I do have a trace of modesty) ..... which cooled me significantly for the hike back out again.
Will return here again someday as well.
Signing the log at the cache. No one at the falls paid any attention to me or what I was doing on the side of the hill just to the left of them. Great hide.
Although there were more finds ..... I think that the heat of the day got to Dave .... and he thought he got pictures that he didn't. At least they weren't on the camera when I went to take them off last night. Our camera has a glitch and won't take the picture sometimes .... but he usually catches it. Yesterday was incredibly hot and I think we both were focusing on the next watering hole.
So lucky for you .... that's it for the photos.
I was a good day away from the house and a much needed day. Today will be finishing up some cleaning I started ..... and trying to stay indoors where it's cool.
Have a good Thursday all ...
Peace. J.
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