Snow Shoeing?

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As I said, I can't be sure.  If we get a decent snow in the valley before long, I will at least get out in that.  But up in the mountains?  This year might be pushing it, but then... you know how I am, sometimes.  No cheaters for out there, mind you.  Some things have to be done in the raw, too dangerous otherwise.  However, to give you a view of the areas I am hoping to shoe through, camp perhaps, and explore...  This area is twenty minutes or so away, give or take.  It's in the mountains bordering the east side of my valley.


This video is a great incentive, for me.

It is still rough.  Taking medicine daily, as I should.  Eating pretty regularly, trying to hit a couple of meals a day.  It just doesn't matter, something is very off.  Sometimes it feels like stomach cramps, sometimes it is sore muscles, some days I can't stay warm, some days I am just too hot but don't dare turn the furnace down or everything gets creaky and runs too slow.  Sleep is just spiraling out of control.  Somehow I am not getting too much sleep nor am I staying up excessively... just enough to try to slowly push my days around.  And yet it feels like I have overslept.  That groggy feeling of having slept too much persists.  I just can't seem to get things right.

Much like a solid pilot though, I don't depend on the eyes.  I use the gauges and warnings and controls to map my flight.  It doesn't have to make sense to the senses, more broadly.  Medicine, food, fluid, bathroom breaks, as needed and on some kind of schedule.  So long as I can keep doing what does work, eventually it will all come back into focus.  My senses tell me I am in a death spiral, my mind knows better.  Even so, it really feels ugly.  I've had worse.  And I'm not in a month or three long coma.  Those are a bear to come out of.  I'm orders of magnitudes better, it just doesn't always feel like it, or seem like it.  That thread of consciousness, that allows choice, is the difference.  Thin, fragile, but still functional.  I'll take it.  On the other side, being pretty much unconscious means I don't suffer.  Meh, I was made to suffer.  And I prefer it to nothingness.  Yeah, I'll take it.

Today?  I have no clue.  I thawed meats, since I am doing a good job with cleaning up and using the food.  I need to figure out the pressure cooker though.  I have cooked several things in it just fine.  Now I am, somehow, very off in my timing.  The last meal was run dry.  I'll... tinker with time, fluid levels, and stove temp a bit more.  I'm telling you, though, that pressure cooker is just the easiest, fastest, way to cook real food and makes cleanup a snap.  It's worth a little effort to figure out.

Later.