Category: A Daily Tree

This tree looked up.

I labored quite a bit today, moving a pile of stored stuff from one spot on my lot to another, in preparation for Richard coming out with his excavator to excavate trenches for plumbing stuff.

[daily log: walking, 4km;]

This tree paused under heavy clouds.

It rained a lot today. I stayed inside.

[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]

This tree is a guest tree from my past. I guess I mean one of those barely-visible, scraggly-lookin trees growing out of the sidewalk in front of that building. That building was my first apartment building when I moved to Goyang City, South Korea, in September, 2007. This is possibly the first photo I took there – I was still using a digital camera, then, no such thing as a smart phone. Although I lived in quite a few different buildings and locations in South Korea during my 11 years there, that building was also the last building I lived in before I moved away in July, 2018, and overall the one I occupied the longest, at around a total of 7 1/2 years occupancy. It’s the closest to a sense of “home” that I had there.

[daily log: walking, 2km;]

This tree was amazed by a bear in the river.

[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 8hr]

This tree on a hill.

[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8hr]

This tree noticed a dog on a walk.

[daily log: walking, 3.5km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree faced a dilemma.

[daily log: walking, 6km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree saw fog at downtown Craig.

[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree was unconcerned that the sea lay just beyond, vaguely blue, obscured by other trees.

[daily log: walking, 5km;]

This tree tried to block the view of the treehouse.

[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 8.5hr]

This tree was between two taller trees.

[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8hr]

This tree faced the future.

[daily log: walking, 2km;]

This tree leaned out at the beach, at low tide.

[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]

This tree decided to try for a jump start on Fall.

[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree was beside the road. I’m sure I’ve said that about other trees, in the past. This tree was besider than those.

I’m really struggling these days with Arthur’s argumentativeness. He has his own reality, more and more under the influence of his memory gaps and his cognitive issues, and he wants desperately to argue with me when his reality doesn’t match what I’m saying things are. Sometimes I just give up, but sometimes what he remembers or fails to remember, and it being at odds with what I think to be the objective truth of a given situation, influences decisions we make or things he perceives needing to be done, and impacts what I have to do. I just don’t tolerate that very well.

[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree was on an island all its own.

I put the new batteries in the boat, and it started fine with that improvement. One problem solved.

We took the boat out for a short spin (not a fishing venture, just a short trip) and found another lurking issue, however. It’s the same problem we’ve always had (since I’ve been up here), though it’s very sporadic and inconsistent enough that it’s hard to reproduce on demand: sometimes when the main outboard engine has been running a while, it begins “hiccupping” – it’s a symptom that resembles the vapor-lock I’d get on my old VW Bug back when I had one. But it’s not vapor-lock, because the engine is not actually running hot. Chet (the boat mechanic in town) has suggested a fuel line or fuel quality problem, which is plausible but unprovable and hard to test or fix.

[daily log: walking, 3km;]

This tree was a bit luminous.

[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 8hr]

This tree (out across the water) saw the clouds clear and the sun come out, while I was down on the dock.

I had a frustrating day. I went to start the boat motors – something I do every few weeks to keep things in order – and found the main outboard wouldn’t start. I worried it was a starter problem but at the moment I’ve decided it might be just that the batteries aren’t holding a full charge and don’t have enough power to turn the starter. It was deceptive because the small outboard started okay. I’m going to shop for a new battery.

[daily log: walking, 2.5km;]

This tree was adjacent to some blueberries.

[daily log: walking, 2km;]

This tree is a baby pine tree I transplanted from near the 7 mile bridge to my lot two years ago. It’s doing well. Pine trees are not actually part of the local micro-ecosystem – they tend to prefer the muskeg areas such as are found down the road a mile or so, closer to the river. So on my lot, it’s an exotic.

I worked today even though it wasn’t my normal work day, filling in for a coworker who was traveling. For some reason, it was exceptionally exhausting. Working retail when it’s busy is socially demanding.

[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 9hr]

This tree preferred to hang out at the beach.

[daily log: walking, 4.5km;]

This tree found two routes to its destination.

[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8hr]

This tree is a guest tree from my past. I took this picture near the town of Millaa Millaa, Queensland, in January, 2011. It’s not far from my mother’s home in Australia.

[daily log: walking, 5.5km; retailing, 8hr]

This tree was adjacent to hastening gloom.

I spent an unpleasant hour at the dentist this morning, and then spent some time with Wayne (former gift store owner) in Klawock, whose website I host. The day ended up feeling hectic and unproductive after that.

[daily log: walking, 4km;]

This tree beheld a distant bank of fog up against Sunnahae mountain.

[daily log: walking, 5km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree was adjacent to a greenhouse illuminated by a sunset.

[daily log: walking, 6km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree was just off the side of the bridge at 5-mile.

[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 8hr]