Name: HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!
Start: 2024-11-28T08:30:00-07:00
End: 2024-12-02T10:30:00-07:00

**I would like to take these moments to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving. It seems you folks have had some pretty pleasant weather the past six weeks and sadly I brought the winter storm along with me from Mankato, Kansas located in the northeastern part of Kansas.**
**I wish I could have been here and hiked the trails I had planned but a lot of issues were brought upon me. I knew there was something wrong with me while we were camping on Shrine Ridge Mountain Rd. I’ve had emotional issues due to the near death of my friend Jill and the loss of my dog Jozie who was my heart and soul and maybe the spine of my life and the three car accidents I’ve been through in the past 32 months have left my brain bouncing around inside my cranium as my therapist would relate as a pinball ricocheting in a pinball machine. (Do they still have pinball machines?) There has been quite a bit of bruising of my brain which has caused several setbacks of amnesia and severe depression and anxiety which has landed me in the hospital more times than I want to remember. Though I was prescribed an antidepressant I refuse to take them as I don’t want to live my life as a zombie. I also decided I wouldn’t accept outpatient therapy and admitted myself to a clinic where I stayed for 28 days and during this time I asked about substance addiction which was included in my rehabilitation, recovery and recuperation…maybe reincarnation. When I was discharged my therapist came up to me, she grabbed me by my shoulders and ordered me, "Not to let my past become my destination and not allow experiences from my past, whether positive or negative, to dictate the direction of my life and prevent me from moving forward and achieving my goals; Learn from your past but not be confined by it.” Believe me I was her model of a patient who wanted to be healed.**
**Fortunately for me, my ex-wife’s family who lives in Mankato, Kansas were moving to Nebraska and needed someone to stay on the ranch and take care of their horses and other chores while they were moving, which I earnestly accepted with no payment. Mickey and her husband flew into Denver, picked me up and we drove together to Kansas, helped the family load up trailers of their property and left me there alone. Mankato is not a Hallmark Town, it’s a town where the police chief, fire chief, and the convenience store owner are one person!!! This town of 347 people does not even have cable TV, no cellphone service and the internet sucks. I had no social media whatsoever…just six horses to keep me company.**
**During my solitary confinement in Kansas I watched Thursday Night Football between the Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers. The winter storm that invaded Cleveland found its way to Mankato where I was stuck for another week but it was fine with me. But it seems the storm followed us back to Denver. This commercial was televised during the game and I know many of you have seen this advertisement but there is a longer version of it which I would like to share with you to wish you a very, very Happy Thanksgiving and keep the ones you love very close to your heart. [Amazon Midnight Opus - Holiday 2024 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecV3E779MfU)**
**I could have posted a few snowshoe or cross country skiing trips across the Great Plains of the United States or horseback riding then campout in a barn or a tornado shelter but thought who would want to do that besides I had no internet service at all!!!**
**I’ll get back with you as soon as I settle down then I’ll get some winter hiking and snowshoeing going on soon.**
**As far as taking antidepressants why would I have too when I have people such as you who takes the depression away…we definitely need a redo on Shrine Ridge Mountain Rd,**
**Have a great Thanksgiving today!**
**Take Care.**
**Don**

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