Thanksgiving

Twas the night before Thanksgiving, when all through the house, No creature was stirring, not even a mouse.  Tomorrow is the day folks get together to stuff themselves.  How many and whose place are different?  It is a day to give thanks for everything the good Lord has blessed us.  

Annoyed

This Range of Light Monument is a problem.  It is in the Sierra National Forest between Yosemite and Kings Canyon. USFS is to govern it.  It is a huge area with many homes including ours.  Our plan is to build on the property we closed on with this Range of Light Monument, we likely will not be able to build on our land.  It also means likely we will have to get permits to "live" here. The problem is the details are missing but do know USFS doesn't have the people or money to hire more to keep the lands with trees spaced out with air between them.  Their lands burned fast and made the Creek fire larger than it should have because their land and BLM land were not taken care of to keep fires from expanding.   At this point, documents have been sent to the supervisors of all three counties involved.  Those letters want things to not change because the locals do better without help from agencies.  We do our best to clean up anything seen while hiking in the areas.  I have picked up trash and put out a fire near a lake that was not kept in rocks but water-logged wood. When a friend and I were stopping for lunch at that lake we used our empty water bottles and kept filling them at that lake emptying them on the fire until it stopped putting up heat. That is how responsible people act instead of saying it is someone else's job. I have heard that the current president could sign it into action before leaving office. If he does, I assume the new president could cancel it and reduce how much the government does. Time will tell what happens next but I know God is in control.  At this point, there is an election on Tuesday.  It appears we are voting for the best of the options.  Praying we could vote for Jesus instead of the folks on the ballot.