nice walk, but sweaty
May. 25th, 2009 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerYep, it's a nice day outside in almost every way. Sunny, big puffy white clouds, even the temperature is not too bad...if were about half as humid.
Saw the usual haul of birds: robins, starlings, mourning doves, sparrows, a cardinal, grey catbirds (they've been around more often lately).
The paths all smell like dusty green leaves and honeysuckle, definitely summer smells.
I noticed the other day (I don't think I mentioned this already) that some apparently long time ago our wee park was posted as a "wildlife area; there's a rusting sign I noticed on a telephone pole. It says "no shooting"; I would hope that no one would be shooting anyway, as the path is never more than 30 feet from a house!
BTW, forgot to mention that whensoccer_fox and gr_c17 showed up on Saturday, several police were busily arresting some people in front of the house. They can probably describe better what was going on, but when I went down later, there were still three police officers, county cops by the look of them, chatting in a friendly way. It looked like a bicycle officer and two that were either car- or motorcycle equipped (couldn't see either right nearby. Yesterday there was a motorcycle officer on the street (never see them around here). Wonder what was going on...
And I clocked myself today and my two-mile walk is now 25 minutes instead of half an hour. I'm going to have to walk further (or slower ;-) to get in my half hour of concentrated walking every day! Plus, ocne I can do a whole week of it, I'll switch to running some.
OK, shower, lunch, then off to my Monday game (early) with Frank.
Saw the usual haul of birds: robins, starlings, mourning doves, sparrows, a cardinal, grey catbirds (they've been around more often lately).
The paths all smell like dusty green leaves and honeysuckle, definitely summer smells.
I noticed the other day (I don't think I mentioned this already) that some apparently long time ago our wee park was posted as a "wildlife area; there's a rusting sign I noticed on a telephone pole. It says "no shooting"; I would hope that no one would be shooting anyway, as the path is never more than 30 feet from a house!
BTW, forgot to mention that when
soccer_fox and gr_c17 showed up on Saturday, several police were busily arresting some people in front of the house. They can probably describe better what was going on, but when I went down later, there were still three police officers, county cops by the look of them, chatting in a friendly way. It looked like a bicycle officer and two that were either car- or motorcycle equipped (couldn't see either right nearby. Yesterday there was a motorcycle officer on the street (never see them around here). Wonder what was going on...And I clocked myself today and my two-mile walk is now 25 minutes instead of half an hour. I'm going to have to walk further (or slower ;-) to get in my half hour of concentrated walking every day! Plus, ocne I can do a whole week of it, I'll switch to running some.
OK, shower, lunch, then off to my Monday game (early) with Frank.
