February 17, 2021. This is the way you Swab your Nose

And the answer is? My groceries yesterday cost $144.00

I talked to Kellie the director and the one and only employee of the 3,000,000 acre Innoko Nation Wildlife Reserve. It’s headquartered here in McGrath. She identified a bird I wasn’t sure we would see here this time of year as a pine grosbeak. She also told me that as spring arrives earlier low bush berries flower before the pollinators arrive. Hence they don’t produce. 😢

These are the only two street signs I’ve seen here.

The sky has been featureless on these snowy days. It’s hard to run before they plow.

I needed another Covid test. I went to the clinic and waited outside to get a test kit and use it in front of the nurse. A man was also getting a test. He waited for me so we could walk together. He wanted to tell me his story. New people are always popular because they don’t know your story. He had just finished writing a book and wanted to find someplace to get away and write another one. We’re a dime a dozen.

Closer to my house, I saw my dog. She was playing with another dog and hanging with some guy as he walked. The man claimed he didn’t know my dog, but the other one was Gina’s dog. She’s on the Tribal counsel. Why does she let her dog run free when his is always on a leash?

And my dog? She pretended she didn’t know me. What a Bitch.