Happy Easter

Happy Easter, everyone, from beautiful Lake Catherine State Park.

The dogwoods are blooming here and Jamie and I encountered them walking the Falls Trail with the dogs on Friday.

This is the falls of the trail, not big, but lovely.

The whole trail has recently been renovated and is very nice.

Yesterday I was able to finish Sean’s birthday present. We bought him a new flag and solar powered flag lights. I installed the lights but when I went to take down the old flag it was tangled in a tree. Later Bud and Jamie helped get it down and then Bud and I tried to dig up the base that held the flag pole to move it from where it was, much too close to a 30 foot Gingko tree that must have been a sapling when the flagpole was originally placed. We dug around it and had resorted to backing the Ram up to drag it out with a strap to the trailer hitch when a kind neighbor intervened and lifted it with a small forklift.

Yesterday we bought 2 bags of quick setting Sacrete, I dug a hole about 2 feet deep and then Jamie helped me put in water and Sacrete keeping the flagpole base vertical. Once it set we slipped in the pole and raised the new flag, but I left in the afternoon. Last evening Jamie sent me this photo; the lights do work!

Bud is taking it easy until his surgery. He is no longer taking the very strong NSAID that allowed him to walk for the last year, so getting around is pretty slow and painful. We opted just to stay at the camper for Easter.

I celebrated the day by taking another hike with Matey. We started up the Falls Trail, this end of it goes up along a smaller stream, crossing back and forth on nice new bridges.

Then we took the Horseshoe Mountain Trail and kept going gradually up. After 1.45 miles we reached this knob, every direction was down from here. Another 1.44 miles brought us back. (Mileage according to my Apple Watch.) Matey did really well and that was a great Easter gift for me.