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| 10th Annual Cranberry Sauce-n-Toss |
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| An action shot |
I went for a walk at Burchfield Park in Ingham County yesterday.
I ran into a group celebrating Thanksgiving by playing disc golf. They informed me that it was the 10th Annual Cranberry Sauce-n-Toss. They were a loud and gregarious crowd and didn't mind if I took a couple of pictures of them.
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| Lots of blow-downs at the park. |
I used to run every day at the park. Heck, that was twenty years ago. I was working at a factory that was being closed down and didn't know where I would be working in the future.
The park changed with the times. Large sections of the forest have been manicured for disc golfing. Duff on the forest floor has been swept. Undergrowth mowed. Mountain biking/trail-riding is a big thing now.
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| Location Northern Red Oak and White Oak. Sandy soil. Decent light coming in during the afternoon. |
This short stretch of river bank looks like a great place to reintroduce Lowbush Blueberries or other Ericaceae plants like Vaccinium pallidum and Gaylussacia baccata. I think they would thrive on the cusp of the bank between the trail and half-way down the bank. It they would be quite a treat for sharp-eyed hikers.
A few years ago a business woman that we know came up to the UP from Lansing on business and came to our farm to visit. She was telling me how much she "loves" walking in the woods and when I told her I have about a mile of trails in my woods she wanted to go. After we got in the woods she was complaining about the limited vision and rough trails. I asked where she goes walking in the woods and she said Burchfield Park is the only woods she has been in. She thought that was what all real woods are--ken
ReplyDeleteThe park does have some old, second-growth Red Oak, Tulip Tree and Beech. Those parts of the woods are impressive.
DeleteMost of the wooded areas are younger and infested with privet, honeysuckle, autumn olive, lilacs.
Further to yesterday's remark about drugs: yesterday I tried Fentanyl for the first time.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know it but the sedative I was given for a surgical procedure was Fentanyl - plus Midazolam, a drug I'd heard of only in the context of allegations of its being used by doctors to bump off old people during the Great COVID Fiasco.
Anyway, I'm still a bit dopey but remain confident that this Fentanyl experience will not convert me into an opiate addict, just as Codeine and Oramorph haven't. Is it possible that opiate addicts become addicts because they want to?
Is it possible that opiate addicts become addicts because they want to?
DeleteThat is a question that would require a long conversation.
I'd say Some, yes. How many trannies Are trannies simply because the requirements of being a man are just too much?
The few people I know who became addicted to opiate pain medications, didn't become so because they wanted to. They became addicted from over prescribing of pain meds after being in accidents that required major surgeries.
DeleteI certainly could have become addicted to Demoral after I broke my hip, but stopped taking them after 3 days and swapping over to OTC pain medications.
Street Fentanyl is not generally "pure" as mixed with other drugs and such.
DeleteAlso the dose given to you by medical personnel was for your weight and level of pain. The lowest dose that made your pain acceptable.
Street Fentanyl is often near OD level dose.
However I have noticed over my decades of medical work some folks do seem to get addicted much easier than others. Might be genetics as it tends to run in families.
Nice that the park has adapted for usage.
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