First things first.

/ Gin Getz

First things first.

Plant trees. Got a dozen in the ground on our fifth day here.  Native aspen and baby blue spruce planted on the hill behind the outhouse. Just feels good to give back to the land, whether we are here to enjoy them, or someone else is.

Second thing is this. Get the garden in. Well, it’s not much of a garden. Eight feet by thirty inches. “What are you gonna grow?” our neighbors back in CA ask. “Radishes?” Not much else would fit in that space.

But I’m hoping it’s just enough space to fit in the plants I started and brought.  A little kale (admittedly, the chickens “pruned” these plants rather severely). A few pepper plants, a zucchini, some herbs A  half dozen tomato plants already laden with green fruit because they were born in raised in California. Don’t know if they’ll ever turn red, but a gals gotta do what a gals gotta do. And this gal grows things. And yes, maybe I’ll get a few radishes going because seems like you always can grown them.

Admittedly I’m missing the abundance of fresh veggies I was able to provide for us year round, but Bob reminds me: There were no fresh veggies when we moved to California either. There was no garden! These things take time.

You gotta start somewhere, so this is how we’re starting.

A chilly 33 degrees this morning, but chillier when I walk the dog at dawn down by the creek and spook off a couple of cow elk bedded in the frosty bunch grass.

Now the sun is up and our world is already warming. In this elevation, that sun is intense!

So is the elevation.

My nose bled last night (again) and this morning I have (another) headache. I’m surprised and disappointed to be having trouble adjusting to the elevation, after living at 1,500 feet in Northern California for the past six years. I think we’re at 10,200 feet here. I spent 17 years living year round at 9,800 feet and didn’t have trouble then. Does this additional 400 feet really make such a difference, or am I getting too soft and old to handle this?

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Now that more is going on here –with both building and writing – I will try to post twice a week, Mondays and Fridays. It’s good discipline for me to finish my thoughts, as well as a challenge to honor and hone my craft. Plus it might keep my ramblings a little shorter each time. As always, my hope is that you will enjoy reading and seeing as much as I enjoy sharing with you. I’d really appreciate your feedback – please let me know.

Until the next time,

With love, always love,

Gin

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7 thoughts on “First things first.”

  1. On our Peru Vacation in July 2009 with Overseas Adventure Travel, we visited Cusco, which is the gateway to the Machu Picchu archeology site. Cusco’s elevation is 11,152 feet. My wife, Linda, took a spill off the trail to the Sun Gate, suffering a tib-fib fracture of her left ankle joint, requiting surgery back in the US and three month non-weight bearing. I suspect, between the preventative medication we were required to take as travelers and the altitude of Cusco, they were factors in orientation and balance issues which led to her fall.

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  2. Greetings from very hot Redding, CA. So glad you and Bob made it to Colorado safely. I just love following you on your adventures — kind of feels like I am there too. Except I have all the comforts of home. You are camping, really roughing it, but you always seem to come out the other side only a little worse for the wear. I am always impressed by the way you just pick yourself up and go on to do whatever priority is next on your busy agenda. Your California caretaker is one lucky dude. I would have volunteered to be that person in a minute. In closing, I just want to thank you for the book you sent. I am thoroughly enjoying reading about Dick’s adventures too. Keep on keeping on Ginny (and Bob).

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    • I always love hearing from you Janet, and am forever grateful for our meeting! Sounds like the heat back in northern CA is already pretty intense, and fire season is starting early… So hard to be away when the need to care for our land ourselves weighs heavy. And yet right now, there is no place I’d rather be than right here, right now.

      So glad you are enjoying Dick’s wonderful writing!

      Keep cool, and keep on keeping on, my friend.

      Love

      g

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