GLENWOOD RES DINO LANDSCAPE

I snuggled up for a fun read before bed, and the book brought to mind the last trip Bob & I did up the Gorge, in January of 2018 – the last year of Bob’s life this side of Heaven.

 

Glenwood Res Dino Landscape. Washington Gorge

2 hr. 26 mins straight driving.

Mount Adams seen from the Glenwood turnoff.

Glenwood Res Dino Landscape. Washington Gorge

My pretty girl, Precious: she was 1/2 Timber Wolf & 1/2 Gray Wolf: Bob fell in love with her too. Our granddaughter, Alyna, named her when we brought her home after she was weaned. When we were in the back country, we let her run free; but in town, we had to have a prong collar on her per Law, because she was "an exotic animal" and people got a little freaked until they got to know her. She was very peaceful and calm - she lived in-house with us, and slept in our bedroom.

Glenwood Res Dino Landscape. Washington Gorge

Glenwood Res Dino Landscape. Washington Gorge

Mount Adams is on Reservation land, so permits are required to visit it.  All access roads are blocked.

Yakima Indian Reservation Land

Heading back towards home via Goldendale-Klickitat Junction, up the Gorge; we’d make the loop before heading back home. About a 5 hour straight drive … all day when making scenic stops. We usually took Klickitat Junction, because it's 2 hours quicker - for a special treat, Bob would sometimes go all the way to Goldendale, which made the daytrip extra loooong. Mount Adams is one of 4 major volcanic monuments in our State.

Glenwood Dino Landscape. Washington Gorge

It really is a very primitive & ruggedly beautiful landscape there. I used to have pictures of the area, but when my old laptop died … the pictures went with it. There was an upper road viewing pullout along the road, and I used to call the landscape seen from there, “our own Grand Canyon in the Gorge”. There was a rock formation seen from this view that resembled a howling wolf. Very cool.

Seeing the landscape from above was awesome, but being on the valley floor among those towering volcanic spires and basalt pillars was magical ;-)

GLASS HOUSE christians

Still moving into my new life with confidence and zest – but I am also a realist.

Everything is on the table … wisdom is knowing what to pick up and run with; and what to punt.

I’m praying for wisdom.

E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G. changed 399 days ago.

Nothing will ever be the same again.

I’m still trying to balance letting go and moving forward.

And for this I have been judged on 2 FB Widow’s Groups.

WTH???

Judgments came from so-called-christians. I wonder what they will do when their glass houses break wide open.

Widows should not be judging other widow’s journeys – we are all different with different lives.

I am on my way ... and everything is on the table: whatever Elohim sends my way, I'm accepting. He has never led me astray yet. People ... yes: Elohim - never.

Churchy folk seem to have more compassion for those fractured families outside the Body than they do those IN fellowship. It’s crazy.

I want satisfaction again. There will never be another Bob - but, I believe there can be a sense of satisfaction again; not in the same sense, of course. But I do believe I can be happy again. Somehow.

Elohei is my husband now: “For your Maker is your husband – the Lord Almighty is His Name”. Isaiah 54:5

NO ONE - including our kids - gets to sit in judgement on my life: past, present, or future. In the past, both kids were waaaaay out of line with demands, accusations, and judgments; perhaps that is why they are pissed: they could never control me. That's their problem. I answer only to Elohim, myself, and to Bob when he was here in the flesh, because I loved him. Period.

 I love you, Babe. Always ~ OX