Walking with Paddy

HOT!

OK. It's not really that hot. We have not seen temperatures over 100 degrees yet (an odd situation for our area), but the humidity is killer. And since we are just back from 3 weeks of temps that never got into the 70s, we are suffering.

We are also sleeping a great deal - through our exercise classes!

So this morning I woke before daylight to walk Ms. Paddy. I gently woke DH to see if he wanted to join us. And I am sure he did not want to come along, but he knew he needed to.

It is always a good thing to walk your neighborhood at different hours of the day. One learns a lot.

We wandered to the park and saw only two runners (no one we recognized). We followed a cat returning from a prowl. It disappeared into the shadows and then walked into the light, saw us, and skedaddled. Paddy smelled the path, but never saw the cat or movement. She is getting old.

The moon is full-ish floating over the woods. The sun came up - hot orange to the east.

The moon sets...

...sun rises

We returned home to a sprinkler gone nuts.

Our grass is almost crispy. We need to do something, now. It won't hurt to water, but we need to do it during the coolest part of the day. But this sprinkler is done-for.

So that was it - a hot and sweaty walk with few distractions. We had no issues with the hills since we have been walking hills for weeks.

Of course, when one is gone for weeks, things happen in the neighborhood. People move out and people move in. Sometimes there is new stuff in the yards.

We discovered this down the street...what the heck?

Imagine a corner light shining...

...on this odd figure. I do suspect it keeps the burglars away.