Hello...I missed you guys! Thought i'ld update. In my absence I've found lots of threads on fwr asking for education of the confused. It seems like a lot of shy, retiring people like baiting my friends for screenshots. Try as I might, that upsets me. I think you all have done beautifully holding the line. I've been proudly lurking reading my sisters talk their way expertly round the rules. I wanted to give you all a festive round of applause.
I decided since I can't ignore Christmas, ill try and acknowledge it's here and get past it. I quite like reindeer. No reindeer here. In fact it's mostly spiders. Big ones with jointed legs and yellow spots. Little jumping ones with huge eyes. Biting motherfuckers that have you waking in sweat and wondering what now! At this rate of nibbling ill turn into spider woman. I miss summer. Its winter quiet. Not many humans either, which at this point is a plus. Lots of huge fat aggressive robins. I don't like Robins, they chase away nicer smaller birds.
The whole shelter thing is impossible. I tried to find provision. The weather forced me south again. It's too cold up where I can get the leg fixed. So im hobbling around on the damn thing. Pretty swollen and my foot is permabruised.
Surviving winter is pretty gruelling. Fires in camp are sporadic due to weather. A campfire makes everything better. The weather gets to be like a mountain to climb, spring at the summit.
I might be too old for this, but some days it seems almost possible. Other days I don't feel I can last another minute.
Thanks for asking how I am. Im ok. Hurting, sad and angry but surviving thanks to the kindness of friends. And im mostly in nicer camps, which helps immensely. Being on the street rather than in the forest would be too much.