{"id":12517,"date":"2019-12-22T22:16:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T04:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=12517"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:17:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T04:17:10","slug":"our-world-hiking-on-turkey-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=12517","title":{"rendered":"Our World – Hiking on Turkey Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Those cables have been there a while!! They look like some sort of oilfield type thing to me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We haven’t been very good churchgoers lately. At least to the kind of church with brick and mortars. This cold foggy morning I got up and attended the church of Turkey Mountain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wagon Wheel Lake (my name for it)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was cold and it was foggy but I felt instantly at home. Getting outside is my way of reconnecting with myself and the infinite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The seep from Wagon Wheel Lake. Hmm, whats up with the bright color and there is an oil sheen as well. Turkey Mountain used to be ranching, farming and oilfield way back when.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My brother is now in Tulsa at a skilled nursing facility but it is just another of the waypoints he will be on as he recovers. The skilled nursing facility he is in right now is well recommended but they are lacking in a number of things now that he is in it and it eats at me. Is any place good enough for a loved one?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I found me a Christmas Tree. Somebody told me that there was at least one ore on the mountain. Yes its cook but it is also graffiti. I hope whoever put the ornaments up, takes them down after the Christmas holidays.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And he is here only two more weeks and then he moves on to the next step. Will it be long term care or assisted living? Will he get better, or not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bicyclists. The Mountain Bikers are kind of hard to put up with but you know, that out volunteer everybody else by far on the Turkey Mountain work days.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Church on Turkey Mountain doesn’t have any answers of course but it strengthens me for confronting these things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the many abandoned oil wells on Turkey Mountain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The rod clamp has at least one bolt missing and another is loose. I am not too worried though.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately my sister, her husband, and my wife are strong partners in this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I googled Skinner Jack Box and you know what. They are still in business, still making rod stuffing boxes. I sent them an email about his find. After decades their product is still at work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some things are too hard on our own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shale rocks just waiting to break somebody’s ankle. Turkey Mountain is a layer cake of this hard shale and softer sandstone. The sandstone is softer and erodes away leaving the shale to break apart. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So at the end of my hour and half I went to see brother Bob. He is doing okay. No therapy on Sunday. We talked a while, watched some football and then I left him to go home. He is very brave, he never complains about what life has dealt him. He has run 26 marathons and over a hundred half marathons so he knows what pushing through when the going gets tough entails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n