falling a little behind on my blogs. i have about thirty, and some have fallen into total disuse, but i've been steadily more commercial on a few of them, with the intent to have them do what commercial blogs do. not this one, of course. this one is just the real me, spilling out words with no caps, every once in a while. i have to give you some pictures pretty quick too. these words only go so far.

getting steadily colder here, but it's still the most beautiful time of year. it's like it's still november. dry, brown, cool, clear, pretty - i still love the mountains. the animals look at you with intensity. they're already convinced you're a hunter.

it gets quiet at night. i sometimes get a lot of tinnitus even with my hearing aids in. lately they've been blocked and i've had trouble hearing. the steady erosion of my hearing seems to have abated. the problem was, my inner ear was full all the time, or much of the time. i seem to have resolved that. this is not the quietest of environments - there are plenty of planes around - but in general, i find a few deer and elk to be mostly what we hear - no reason to amplify really. i'd like to take the hearing aids out more, and just go for long walks. they're mostly for talking to people, and who needs more of that? i've become a little anti-social.

ah but you may not care about my world. it's just deer, elk, bear, lions, raccoons mostly, critters around that make the dogs bark. the turkeys come by every once in a while. they say they travel in packs of all-male and all-female, but i still don't know the difference by looking at them. they're hearty, though, they seem to do ok out here. as do most of them, best i can figure. even in the cold of winter, they look at me with those intense eyes. they'll make it.