#there were other animals and educational stuff but dang those howling wolves were something else

[tj-crochets]

No crafting update today because I spent all my spoons checking out a local(ish) wildlife reservation/hiking place, which was awesome! I could not explore the whole place, and it is very much "only wheelchair friendly if the person pushing my wheelchair is capable of holding my entire weight against a steep slope and immediately pushing the chair up another only partially paved steep slope", but I walked the whole time*! I got to hear wolves howling through the forest and it is a whole hell of a lot eerier to hear on a foggy day in a winter forest than it was the only other time I've heard it, which was a very bright sunny day in an amphitheater at a zoo where one wolf howled alone on stage. There were crows cawing and wolves howling and it was absolutely magnificent and suddenly a whole lot of things from various fantasy novels I read as a kid hit very different. Like, I get why hearing the wolves howl in the night would be alarming now! *we did bring my rollator/transport chair in the car, and the backup plan was that my dad or my brother would go get it and push me back to the car if I needed help

#the person behind the yarn #there were other animals and educational stuff but dang those howling wolves were something else #what can I say I grew up in a city with like zero wildlife that was bigger than lizards #well okay there were crows and seagulls and pigeons but I lived so far into a city there weren't even coyotes! #when I got a little older I did move somewhere with more wildlife (including but not limited to coyotes) but no wolves #my physical stamina is absolutely terrible at the moment because of the anemia and POTS #but the meds I am on are working pretty well! #I mean. they don't make me able bodied but they mean that my heart rate might be elevated but my blood pressure is okay #like my heart rate might be in the 130s but I'm not going to pass out! which is a huuuuge improvement! #it was also good to find out that the rest of my muscles are absolutely fine with an hourish long walk across uneven terrain #like. my heart was not so cool with it but the rest of my body was fine! and that's cool! #uphill slopes are still my nemesis and today was not a good heart day so I had to take very small steps #like half the length of my foot at a time #but it was a bad heart day and I COULD walk up slopes!!!