Annual Date With Color

Annual Date With Color - 2016

Road trip!!! Ted and I try and go places to see the fall colors. The last two years, we've gone out of state to do it - 2014 we went to Portland, Oregon and 2015 we went to Rapid City, South Dakota. This year, we stayed local. We went on the Mirror Lake Scenic Drive and up to Evanston, then back on I-80 home. Just want to share some photos to journal our journey. I worked this morning - and it was a pretty rough morning - and as soon as I got home, I changed my clothes and off we went. Here are our photos.

On our way up I-80

Rockport Lake

Rockport Lake - the tower sticking up there is an Osprey nest tower. They built several of these towers for Osprey

Ted was so excited by this - he had to turn around and go back for a picture. You'll appreciate it if you are a Dr. Who fan

I forgot to get my SD card for my camera. We had to stop and get one at the ACE Hardware store in Kamas.
So - this was our test selfie. HAHA

Test foot shot. Then we forgot to get any others.

There are signs. They tell you, there may be cattle in the roadways. And there were. These guys came so close to the car,
Ted could have put his hand out and touched them. He is sure they got cow pee on the car.

Provo River meandering it's way through the canyon

Another shot of the river.

Even the little sapling/tree starts are turning colors

Cutest little car climbed that mountain like it waas born to do it!!

Yeah - I found this sign in the nasty open hole outhouse AFTER I climbed down the mountain, all alone, without my
phone, to take photos. Thar be bars in them thar hills!!

Cows!!!

Provo River Falls - - so pretty

Getting positions and ready to take selfies in front of the falls - - and accidentally took this one. I actually like it!!

AWWZ - he likes me!!

This lake was adorable - - little teeny lake. People out paddleboarding and kayaking. One of my favorite spots

Teapot Lake

Bald Mountain

Mirror Lake

Me - at Mirror Lake

Another lake up front Mirror Lake.

There is snow up there in that mountain!!

My math geeky guy wanted me to get a picture at 10,560 feet. I missed it by eight. At 10,560, we are two miles
above sea level.

We had a great day, that ended with a mediocre dinner in Evanston - where everything is shut down on a Sunday. A stop for lotto tickets and a bottle of wine. And a drive home - that I was reallly, reallllly tired for. But, we saw some beautiful scenery. Utah has beautiful, beautiful scenery. I was glad we got to see some today. And it was a beautiful day for it.

Comments

CoCo's Journey - Mortality Reality

This week has been one for the books. There has been some good things, not so good things and more. I will explain. Last Saturday, my daughter and I drove to Idaho Falls. We went to visit my bonus daughter and her family. I wasn't feeling great. But I wasn't feeling horrible. By the time I got home, I had a lot of swelling. I have been dealing with that for a few months. I had started to see a specialist about my liver and my pancreas. I had recently started a medication, it is a very pricey medication, but it's supposed to help me break down calories and nutrients so that my body absorbs them. Even though I eat, my body was just shedding the nutrients and food I was eating and making it so I was not gaining weight. I was 95 pounds. And nothing I did would gain weight. But I've gained 20 pounds over the last few months. My clothes were uncomfortable. But, I don't know if it's just the water retenti...

CoCo's Journey - TPN Me!!

I just decided to do another post after spending my first night in my own bed with my new sexy bed partner. TPN. TPN - Total Parenteral Nutrition. Calories, vitamins, minerals and all that delivered through an intravenous line. PICC line - A little stronger and more durable than a regular IV line. It's inserted, via ultrasound, into a vein. Mine is in my upper right arm. IV Pump - an electrical system that pumps the IV fluid from my bag into my veins. In essence, I have an IV bag, when first attached to my PICC line, it probably weighs 15 to 20 pounds. It is kept in a backpack, so I can be mobile. I have the pump plugged in, to keep it charged, when I'm not mobile and trying to get my home back in order after being gone for five days in the hospital. Me and my sexy new bed partner. I know, I'm gorgeous. Skinnier than a prepubescent 12-year-old boy and a mess. Don't judge. I'm working on it!! ...

CoCo's Journey - Answers!! Finally!!!

Today I finally got answers!!! I do not have Cirrhosis!!! I am Pre-Cirrhotic. Very close to that precipice but still not falling over the edge and falling into a place that I cannot get out of. I had seen my gastric bypass doctor a while ago - and was given the wrong information. I think he was looking at the headline and had not read the story. It's something I'm good at, too. My doctor explained that when I was overweight, the fat in my body was damaging my liver. Then I had gastric bypass and that should have helped my fatty liver. But, then I wasn't able to absorb the calories, so I became malnourished. My liver was not getting the proteins I needed in order to supply my body with the proper nourishment. Every organ you have needs protein, and it starts in the liver. So - the malnourishment started to affect my liver. Leading to the state I'm in now. The thing I need to work on is getting off the diu...

CoCo's Corner

Search This Blog