The blue sky didn’t last long. But I ditched Zoom yoga to enjoy it. Yoga class would have been problematic anyway do to defective WiFi and lack of space in the room.
Today’s adventure was a trek to the Eagle Rehab facility and retirement home. Sort of like where I live. They have rehabbed and released 540 eagles in the last 40 years. Doesn’t sound like very many until you remember how few eagles we had in 1980.
Eagles that can not be returned to the wild are sent to zoos and some are trained to go out with a handler to schools etc. when these show and tell eagles get too old to stand the stress of meeting 2nd graders, they come back to Sitka to live out their days in the retirement home. Captive eagles live to be about 40.
Walking on one of the well manicured trails I came upon a pile of bear shit that was fresh enough to have me humming a happy tune until I got back into a more civilized part of the refuge.
When I was leaving the eagle place I see a doe with a tiny fawn. The doe gives a whistle and bounces off into the trees. Apparently, the fawn hasn’t learned it is supposed to follow quickly when momma whistles So fawn starts heading up the road to visit with me. Not good. I try shooing the fawn into the woods. That didn’t work. I try continuing on my way to the highway. The fawn follows me. Not good. After about 10 minutes of shooing and yelling, I get the fawn heading towards momma. Hopefully she will reinforce “when I whistle don’t stop and visit”.
Enough excitement already. Loop back to town through the park to see if any one is working on the totem. They aren’t.
Managed a real lunch today. Salmon chowder and an excellent scone. There are a couple of places to get a little something for lunch. Plus two food trucks that look pretty good. Haven’t broken the dinner puzzle yet. The food trucks are just lunch. This trip really isn’t about food and goodness knows that I haven’t lost any weight.