Well, the orange one is gone. Four years of mismanagement, lying, bullying, and criminal acts are over. The saps he conned will never believe he lost, but that’s why con games work. There will always be those that lack the intelligence or desire to see through a con. He told them what they wanted to hear, and they were more than happy to believe him. And be damned to all that would actually have the gall to present them with a verifiable fact. But. at least now dignity and sensibility will reign for a few years. With the possible exception of Mitch McConnell.
We’ve had a traveling January so far, as best as can be expected during a pandemic. We started the new year in Marquette and the UP. A place both Lise and I love. regardless of the season. Places above the 45th parallel, and the people that live in those places, are different. There’s a toughness and an edge to them that you don’t find in the temperate latitudes. For instance, if you want to see bird species that winter in the UP, you have to take on the winter. That’s why we started a hike in the McCormick Wilderness looking for boreal chickadees when the temperature was -3 Fahrenheit. We’re talking snot freezing cold here. That might seem harsh, but at the trailhead we met people going out to bring in the new year camping. As in snowshoeing into the backcountry and camping, not sleeping in a camper at a campground camping. Now that’s tough.
We were only back from Marquette for a couple days when Lise had to attend a four day in-person workshop at Poakagon State Park. I tagged along to play in the park a little. All told it was kind of a bust. They had snow, then a thaw, then a freeze. That made the trails something resembling a luge track. Great for sliding really fast, but not so great for hiking.
Once we got back from Pokagon, we decided it was best to isolate as best we can. On the spur of the moment, we figured we can isolate at the trailer in Delaware as well as our house in West Lafayette. And have a lot more opportunity for outdoor activities. So here we are in Delaware. Eating crab cakes and rapidly upping our yearly bird list. We’re now over eighty species. And getting to watch tRump fly away. Life is good.
Ed's and Lise's Biggish Years 