Sunset – no filter – 18 June 19; Photo: L. Weikel
Missing My Walks
It’s been two days and I’m cranky as all get out.
I got home too late last night to take a walk. It was all I could do to eat dinner and write my post. And while I was tempted to do a quick ‘walk-around’ (which is our usual 2.2 mile trek – which I swear, we’ll be taking even after we’ve shed our mortal coils, we’ve walked it so many times throughout the 34 years we’ve lived here), Karl disabused me of that notion when he described how he and Spartacus got caught in a drenching downpour a bit earlier.
The air was so thick with mugginess when I walked from my car into the house, I could practically wring it out like a terrycloth towel. So no, I wasn’t inclined to risk it.
75% Chance of a Soak? No Thanks
Then tonight, even though I was tired, I was itching to walk. Missing one day is ok. Going two days without my time in nature doesn’t sit well with me. But again, the atmosphere was laden with moisture. It was gross, frankly, and while Karl said he was game for a ‘walk around,’ he checked his phone’s weather app.
“75% chance of a storm – right now,” he said grimly. “75% in an hour, too. And oh look! The hour after that it bumps up to 85%.”
Well, that put the kibosh on that idea. And now I’m kicking myself because I don’t think it actually ended up raining this evening (although it is now). In fact, I just checked again and we’re under a Flash Flood Watch from now until Friday at 1:00 a.m. – over the next 24 hours we could get up to 3” of rain!
So here I am. I may need to suck it up and walk in the rain tomorrow. It won’t be pleasant for the pups, but we may have to go for it anyway.
I’m sharing the photo below, which I took over the weekend, to remind us all of sunnier days. You have to admit, those are two happy, if a tad tuckered, pups. I took this after we’d taken the longer (4.1 mile) ‘walk-about,’ (as opposed to the 2.2 ‘walk-around’ – we need to keep our terms tight here, folks!) at one of their favorite places along our route where they always, without fail, stop, drop, and roll around in the lush green grass.
Spartacus & Sheila ‘chillaxin’ – Photo: L. Weikel
And the photo leading off this post is actually one I took last night as I was driving home from a session. (I was actually at a stop light. I wasn’t driving!) This was before I started encountering banks of fog along the river.
I just had to share. (And FYI, it took over 13 hours for Verizon Wireless to deliver this photo to my email! What the heck?)
Have a great day – here’s hoping for some Walk Time (or your equivalent) for all of us.
(T-891)