What a beautiful day today! Driving toward Visalia to make a run to Costco was the most beautiful kind of day we ever have! The air was clear, there were just a few clouds in the sky and I could see the Sierras with a heavy blanket of snow. They looked like they were right behind Visalia; it was so clear. Even here, you could see them clearly. Usually, our air is so murky that you are lucky to see more than a mile away...
Seeing those mountains took me back sooooo many years to the winter I worked weekends in Sequoia National Park. I worked both in the kitchen in the Village Cafeteria (no longer there, I believe) and checking tow tickets at Wolverton Ski Bowl. The snow triggers memories of trying to get to work wearing hard, slick-soled shoes and slipping all the way; of sleeping in the dormitory with the window open because the radiator heat was too hot; and inner-tubing on the snow. It was that activity that terminated my weekends for a few months as I inner-tubed over a cliff, landed on an inch or so of slush and fractured my sacrum (lower back). I think of my old friends, Kathy and Fred and then that triggers thoughts of other people that I worked with that winter and the next two summers. I had a brief Facebook re-connect with Fred recently but was "unfriended" by him in a few weeks. No real idea why; just noticed one day that he wasn't on my friends list...
Returning from Costco, I had coffee with my first friend in life, Judy. I had lost track of Judy in the years after high school and met up with her last summer at Weight Watchers. We've had lunch and coffee a couple of times. She seems to have a good life with a husband who treats her like a queen. I'm so happy for her. She had a number of years of hard times and has really come through them. We had a good visit and talked of work, her kids, her stove troubles, my husband, and lots of other things.
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