Time to get back to the grind.

How do I summarize an entire summer in a blog entry????

Late evenings around the old silo/campfire talking the big issues with the CRK crew.
Living out of a tent at back of Ginni's veggie plot for two months.
Paddling all night on the Columbia River by full moon.
Being snuck up on by barges.
Paddling solo.
Paddling with the best.
Fresh-picked food.
Goat-meat on the BBQ.
Friends.
Bureaucrats.
Sturgeon.
Brown Pelicans circling overhead.
Puget Island.
Rides to town.
Reading the County Eagle over pancakes with blueberries.
Hammock in the Cotton-woods by the river.
Cotton-woods groaning in the breeze, crashing in the wind.
'Sweep' Stroking.
The sheer grace and beauty of a stern or bow rudder.
"Big Salty Hugs".
Osprey, Red-Tailed Hawks, Eagles, Great Blue Herons, y 'los Vulturas'.
My guardians, advisors and prophets - The Barn Owls, Raven, and the flock of Canada Geese that came to me when I most needed them.
A Canoe ride in the slough.
Admiring Sedum on the cliffs.
Sea Lions.
Romanys... Romanys... Romanys... Tassie!
Swinging the big paddle.
My new shortie GP paddle - Thanks Don!
Cape Kiwanda, pea-soup fog, big Pacific swells, chunky wind-waves, navigation by ear, compass, and watch.
Surf rolling in rolling surf.
Feeding 'the girls' every morning. Cluck cluck cluck...
Sunflowers.
Swinging the big hammer.
Elochoman Valley.
Elk, brake fast!
Raccoon roadkill, braked, not fast enough.
Deep Brown Cavatica at the Fort George.
The Pelican at Pacific City.
Salmon Burgers and ten questions at the Wet Dog.
The Blue Scorcher.
Standing waves, breakers, and dumpers. Green shoulders.
Clif Bars, Three Geeks all-fat Yoghurt, Northern Gold Granola, King Oscar Kippered Herring(s).
Black Panda Licorice.
Kale and eggs for Brekkie.
Raspberries, Blueberries, and Blackberries.
Cathlamet, Skamakowa, Astoria, Ilwaco, Seaside, Cannon Beach, Pacific City, Manzanita...
North Jetty, South Jetty, Jetty A, Jetties period!
Roaring Wing-dams.
Red Right Returning.
Lewis and Clark ate horse and dog... I read it on a sidewalk so it must be true.
Slow-motion rolling in the Columbia at sunset.
Embaressing post-roll nasal drain. Heh heh heh sorry :")
Avocado, Pineapple, Mango.
Misunderstandings.
Connections.
Assumptions.
Business.
Friendship.
Bourbon from the blue bottle.
Fresh nightly breezes through my tent door.





...to be continued - obviously.


Time on water - ever and forever