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I may have been to bed as early as 9:30 p.m. last evening ─ but I do not actually recall. Nonetheless, my cellphone alarm was set for 2 a.m. in order for me to see if rising a half hour earlier than has been my custom for my occasional nighttime walks would be both easy enough to do, and lend me a sufficient margin of time to make my walk more leisurely ─ and also get me back home ahead of the commuter early birds.
All categories were met.
I was actually awake when my alarm sounded; and I had just moments before it peeled forth considered checking the time just in case my alarm had failed, for I felt quite awake. The alarm in fact gave me a bit of a start.
As planned, I was on my way by 2:15 a.m., fully a half hour ahead of my previous embarkations of recent vintage here in north Surrey.
My route was to be the area bounded by 96th and 100th Avenues on two sides, and 132nd and 148th Streets on the other two sides ─ the 9800 block of 140th Street should be the centre point (Google Map).
It is well that I had that extra half hour with which to make unplanned adjustments.
Early into my walk I stopped at an elementary school playground where I essay four sets of pull-ups on the gymnastics-style rings featured there. Unfortunately, I saw that there were at least two people with flashlights (probably cellphone apps) prowling in that vicinity.
Cursing my misfortune, I resorted to the opposite side of the school where a smaller kids' playground is set up and which has similar rings, but which are fixed so as not to swing.
As is my norm of late, my sets' repetitions were 6 - 2 - 2 - 2.
I was further delayed because just as I was about to resume my walk, the two people bearing the flashlights had left the school grounds and were dawdling along in the direction I wanted to go.
I had to hang back until they reached an intersection nearby that would afford me the opportunity to continue my venture without their immediate proximity.
I have not mentioned this before ─ I noticed this on my last walk that followed this route. Nowhere else have I heard any crickets except approximately where the Quibble Creek Greenway meets 100th Avenue (Google Map). I had come 'up' 138A Street and was from there walking along 100th Avenue after making an immediate right turn.
I was also to later hear a frog just after I had left 96th Avenue to follow Green Timbers Way (Google Map). The sidewalk is on the right of Green Timbers Way as one looks at the map, and the frog was in the woods over on the left and undeveloped side of that road. This is only the second time that I have heard a frog this year, and the first time was last week.
Incidentally, a second time that I was to take advantage of the half hour leeway I had due to leaving home as early as I did was when I opted to have a look for the first time at just where Green Timbers Access led to from 100th Avenue (Google Map).
I walked to where the trails start, and followed one of them for a very short distance in the moonlight ─ the whole area opened up as if there was a huge meadow, but I knew the lake was in that area. I just did not know if it was extremely shallow and marshy, and might comprise the bulk of that seeming meadow area. I was not about to forsake the trail to make that discovery in the night.
There was a park information board at the start of the trails. If I remember correctly, it stated that back in the 1920s when the forest was seven times its current area, Surrey residents fought to prevent logging because as yet the area was not designated as a park.
The whole area was original or old growth forest with trees 15 storeys high.
The citizens failed, and everything was clear cut in something like 1929.
Replanting was done thereafter, and resulted in the smaller forest of today. What comprises the area of park known as Green Timbers Urban Forest today was not established until 1970.
In the 1980s, the damned politicians decided that a large section of the forest was to be clear cut once more, but this time for the purpose of having a huge arena built there. The clear cutting was done, but Surrey citizens fought hard enough that the development was stopped.
My suspicion is that the very large and wide open "meadow" area I came upon last night was probably where that clear cutting was done.
And now I have just found an online description that appears to indicate that I am correct: Green Timbers Heritage Society Historical Background. Green Timbers Lake was created by "widening" King Creek, but I cannot see any King Creek listed on the Google Map no matter how much one zooms in.
Supposedly King Creek joined with Bear Creek, but the first place I can see Bear Creek identified on a Google Map is at Bear Creek Park ─ it seems to spring into existence where Quibble and Mahood Creeks connect with Bear Creek (Google Map).
That is very approximate to the 8700 block of King George Boulevard (Google Map).
I found an old .pdf map that shows King Creek's "headwaters" as being just north of 101st Avenue. The map more or less indicates that the vestigial creek passes beneath 100th Avenue to where it was apparently enlarged to form Green Timbers Lake, but one can see where the creek thereafter continues below the lake and all the way to where 92nd Avenue would intersect with it if 92nd Avenue did not break off for a wedge of forest ─ see this Google Map that shows a King Creek Trail.
One can reach one end of 92nd Avenue from the other by braving a poor trail through the forest which requires the trail follower to get across an unbridged creek bed ─ King Creek, no doubt. I have used that trail on three occasions this Summer, and have found the creek bed to be essentially just damp at best, and heavily cluttered with rock and other debris ─ crossing it requires descending one creek bank, getting over the clutter, and then climbing up the opposite creek bank.
I have never seen the creek bed in the wet season ─ maybe it then has a fair flow to it.
But where does it go after the 92nd Avenue area? Google Maps gives no indication. Somehow it must meander down to Bear Creek Park.
I see in this description of Kiyo Park that King Creek runs through it ─ I have actually crossed over a creek bridge in that park one night this past Spring or early Summer. You can see the park marked on this Google Map, and it is not far at all from 92nd Avenue's break for the forest and the presently mainly dry King Creek bed.
Kiyo Park is very near Bear Creek Park (Google Map). I know that there is a creek with water that flows very near to the corner of the park at the intersection of 88th Avenue & 140th Street (Google Map), so that is likely King Creek. If it is, I do not quite understand why it would have water when it is only a damp creek bed up near 92nd Avenue.
My gosh! I have spent far too long on this talk of my walk.
Suffice to end the topic, I was back outside the locked front door at 4:23 a.m., I believe. My wife's car ─ which was not in the driveway when I left on the walk ─ was now present. She had finally gotten home after working a full day yesterday at the Thai restaurant where she has part-time employment.
She had to put in another full day today (the restaurant opens at 11 a.m.), so she got herself up this morning around 9:45 a.m. to begin readying for her day.
When my brother and I got together for some morning T.V., I put our Android TV Box to work and led things off with Christopher James' (A Warrior Calls) 1¼-hour (1:16:37) upload to Rumble of just yesterday: Fight Pedophilia and Corrupt Judiciary.
Thursday, September 8th, 2022 Live Stream
Guest: Kanwaljit Singh - update on Pam Deol
My brother expressed that he is coming to see that Christopher James is delusional. The poor soul will never have sufficient numbers of Canadians backing him up to ever install Common Law and rout the Maritime Law systems we all live under.
I then tuned in two fairly short videos on BitChute because I am curious about health benefits being ascribed to both turpentine oil and even Borax.
◙ Turpentine And Castor Oil Full Protocol And Demonstration (13:54)
◙ Borax - Suppressed Bone Wonder? Poison or Miracle Arthritis Cure? Here's the Research (17:10)
I need to know a lot more before I give either of these a try.
We finished with an hour-long (1:00:50) upload of just today to Rumble of The Mel K Show: Mel K & Attorney Tom Renz Shining Light On Truth & Corrupt Justice System 9-9-22.
Please go to www.Renz-Law.com to join & support the fight of our lives, get information on legal battles against the regime, and sign up for his substack: www.Renz-Law.comIt was not exactly revelatory for my brother and I, but interesting nonetheless. I just think that they are too optimistic ─ far, far worse is coming.
My brother never bothered with any bed rest ─ he was too eager to get out and join one or more of his drinking buddies for games of pool.
The day was sunny. So, after a very short nap, at 2:09 p.m. I put in a little over an hour and 20 minutes of sunning while attired in a pair of cut-offs.
It is nearly 8:15 p.m. ─ I must stop blogging for today.
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