Saturday Routine

Reminder: Rethink Saturday routine. Heck, ESTABLISH Saturday routine.

Beautiful dark clouds threatened a bit at the market so I headed home to walk before any storming. Fooled me. Paddy and I enjoyed the shade until we started to turn around. The sun came out and the temperature went up 5 or 10 degrees - catching us out of water and too far from home. We dragged back.

But, before pooping out, we visited briefly with running man (always polite, he coughed when he came up behind us so we would not startle) who claimed chores also kept him from his usual earlier run. We also talked with a couple of neighbors planting a hot pink crepe myrtle in their front yard.

And we did walk the edge of the woods to "see what we could see" as we expected the dark things to be hiding from the bright morning light (and, smarter than us, from the heat). We somehow ended up in the creekbed and walked far enough in to see the stagnant pool - all that is left of the recent rains. There are tracks all around this watering hole, but we declined.

Grasses and wildflowers continue to dry up. A few evening primroses clung to the banks of the creek, some wild morning glory - tiny and white with a blood red eye - lay just below the cut vegetation at the borders of the road. And thistles are blooming in the yard of the once abandoned house. It still looks a bit abandoned, but there are signs of occupancy...the yard is just very rough. I suppose it is time to get to mine before the thistles start to bloom here too.