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Linda Jo Hunter's Blog
November 19, 2009
- We have been camped on this remote Baja point for a month now. It is interesting how little a person needs to be happy. We shower in four gallons of water for two people and eat fish out of the sea. We spend days in the water and on the beach ever fascinated by the wind, tides and plentiful wildlife from scorpions to whales. But even more interesting is how much a human needs to be ...
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November 13, 2009
- A few weeks ago I stopped in a great independent book store in La Jolla California called D. G. Wills and found some great books in the stacks . . one of them was "My First Summer in the Sierra's" by John Muir. Written in 1896 it was a wonderful book of the way things were and the way they still are. . .some people want to save the environment from harm by living small and being aware ...
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October 8, 2009
- The person we rescued would never see us. She would never know what it was like to try and get to her on her an icy pinnacle, her potential grave, at midnight. She was unconscious for all of her rescue. She passed out on top of Beacon Rock in the Gorge one January night after drinking a whole bottle of rum and doing whatever drugs she and her boyfriend had with them. He couldn’t wake her. ...
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September 16, 2009
- Working all summer at a small public golf course had given me a new perspective on the game. Golfers head out on the course with a supply of beer in their bags or in a cooler in their cart. Often that isn’t enough and they run into the clubhouse or buy more from the beverage cart that cruises the course on weekends. Right along with the consumption of quantities of beer comes gambling. Bets ...
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August 26, 2009
- It is so tiring to see people take this conservative/ liberal thingy that is so popular to such ridiculous heights. Somebody must be making a lot of money on these rants. My neighbor wrote a letter to the paper full of vitriol about liberals. Who the heck is he talking to? In this small town America nobody here believes in murder, communism, the death of babies and taking away people’s ...
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August 26, 2009
- Language can truly be a barrier to communication. Think of your poor dog. He can’t talk and yet you are his primary care person because he is also imprisoned in captivity. If he were free he could roll in, eat and run wherever he liked. But since he lives with a human he must poop and pee where specified, sleep and leave hair in certain places and not chew on things he doesn’t understand. ...
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August 12, 2009
- Somewhere I saw a picture of Charlie Russell touching the paw of a grizzy bear in the wild. It was such a shocking image to me after all I had heard and read about bears that I needed to know more. What I found out is that this man from Canada went to the Kamchatka Penninsula, a remote part of Russia to study bears and see if humans could get along with them. To make a very long wonderful ...
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July 29, 2009
- If I could re-do my first book again I would have not been so quick to recycle the final proof. After I had made the final changes and sent it back to the publisher they sent me one more copy and I checked to make sure all the changes had been made. .they had so I put the pile of papers in the recyle bin as I already had too many copies of the manuscript. In a little while the sample book ...
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July 11, 2009
- When you least expect it – that’s when you get to see a bear. I have been tracking a bear that lives in certain creek drainage for several years. This animal is a real character and lately has taken to fence pole sitting. There is a large fenced area put in by the forest service years ago to monitor fir tree growth in the area. Animals of all kinds use the area for sleeping as it offers cover ...
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June 26, 2009
- My calendar is full, except for Wednesdays. I reserved that day for myself. I pack a light lunch and my mountain bike and drive into the National Forest somewhere where I will probably not see anyone else. Then I take a closed or unmaintained road and ride as far as I can. My day usually includes a quiet sit somewhere scenic that is comfortable. I spend time sketching or writing and being ...
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June 24, 2009
- I was still half asleep when Mike gave me a bowl of steaming oatmeal. Yummm he makes the best breakfast. I happily spooned up what looked like a big red, juicy strawberry and popped it into my mouth. But even in my semi-awake state I knew something was wrong. I picked up the next strawberry piece and looked closely at it. Yes it looked just exactly like the strawberries I remember picking out ...
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June 19, 2009
- My little sister says when I was in high school she could always find me holed up somewhere inside or outside the house with an apple in one hand and a book in the other. I wasn’t interested in television. I wasn’t interested in magazines. I wanted a book on life that was full of adventure, far off places and made me wonder what was going to happen next. I wanted endings that made me feel ...
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May 29, 2009
- A beautiful spring day and I am finally free for some wilderness time.I have a goal in mind, but on the way there some ravens alert me to a deer carcass.I stop beside the road and check it out. It is so fresh the blood smell is strong and I get to see inside the animal where the stomach cavity is ripped open. So that’s what multiple stomachs look like. Humm this deer had been feeding all ...
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May 1, 2009
- The swine flu has brought up a pet peeve of mine. Everywhere I go people stick out their hands and expect that I will put my hand in their moist, warm hand and squeeze. This has been a sore subject with me since my days of guiding in Alaska when I finally connected the colds and flu that we consistently had all summer to people getting off planes from around the world and shaking our hands. In ...
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April 23, 2009
- It used to be the “haves” and the “have nots”.Now it is the being green against the caught in consumptions. I am seeing a division of vast proportions happening all around me. On Amazon.com in the nature section of books, two of the top selling books compete. One is Green Hell, How Environmentalists Plan to Ruin Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them by Steven Milloy and Hot, Flat ...
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