Way too big of an event for me to put in perspective. 
"I am the destroyer of worlds."

Had a pretty good run myself and my kids are grown and well established so I don't have any complaints either on that score.

The climate discussions are just science based to me. Like radio waves or gravity or metallurgy or whatever one has to eventually come back to the science. I agree people get all worked up about the issue but that's a different thing and it doesn't have much if any relationship to science.

Regardless things are changing and we can all see if we care to look. My area is certainly different now. Maybe the changes are easier to see because the ecological balance was pretty fragile to begin with. I don't know

One of the kids has a place in the NC mountains and I hear the fishings good there. Looking forward to finding out.

Happy mushroom hunting.

Catlle cars? Thought you have an SUV

Sam,  she did see that and we talked.  She has a similar condition. She is the 3rd  opinion.  I didn't trust just one. The procedure may have to be repeated until the nerves don't grow back.  The hope is my vertebrae will continue to fuse themselves and the dreaded fusion operation will not be needed.  That's a looong recovery period for that. 
Apparently this is a common course of treatment at this time.

Hope you have better luck up at the cabin

Here in the high desert of the Southern Rockies we started with a month of huge fires and really bad air from the smoke that made it pretty rough to go outdoors. Had to wear a mask kind of situation. Scorching heat started while that was going on and killed all the fruit on the trees and the drought tolerant heirloom plants in the garden. Drought tolerant is one thing but consistent temps in the 107 plus range is something else. Then came the rains which did eventually put out the forest fires but now we get flash flood emergency alerts 2 or 3 days out of five and it rains at least a bit 5 out of 7 days. Water in the desert is good but in my area heavy rains just scour the drainages clear of any and all vegetation and healthy soil while little water soaks in. It is the previously normal pattern amplified exponentially.

One year or even five doesn't support a cycle but what we're witnessing is in line with climate change modeling. Just the way it is. This area is already significantly different from even a couple decades ago. Whatever ways it changes remains to be seen but the changes are undeniable.

Still find it interesting there are folks who deny basic facts of daily experience. Saw recently someone claimed glaciers are increasing rather than disappearing. Go figure. But whatever it is we'll just have to deal with it. If we could find a way to slow some of the flash floods down a bit in a restorative way we might do all right. Who knows?

Interesting times.

Slim pickens down here in the gunshine state.  A few chantrellres.    Going back up to the cabin in a few weeks.  Maybe it'll be better up there