Today is December 10, and so it's been 20 days since my last post.
I know I've had a long walk or two in that time, but I don't remember and I didn't write it down. I remember one Saturday I went to Miller's Landing, and that the path under the bridge still wasn't finished, and that it was closed off. I did cross the footbridge north of the park that connects to Columbia Park, walked through the residential area, and over the Columbia River bridge and up the hill to the stop light and then back down to the park. There were runners on the course who were discussing childcare, and it was before Thanksgiving Day. So that should have been the thirty-first day, and then there was another day, but again, I didn't record the days, so that's that.
The weather about the time of Thanksgiving was terrible, with deep snow piled up and the parking lot frozen. I did some stair laps, some television-led stretching exercises, some yoga, walking to the store and back, but nothing worth blogging about. I have noticed that my tee shirts go straight down instead of catching on my stomach or hips, that I walk faster to the store and am not winded when I get there, that going up and down the apartment steps is now easy.
Today I walked to the bank. Rain and snow fell earlier in the morning, but when I walked out of the apartment, the sky was a nice clear blue, fading to gray skies to the south, with strong winds from the south. I kept my head down as I walked into the wind. I was pleased to notice that the walk seemed to take any time at all, and yet it took 26 minutes to get there. Even the large puddles that were inches deep were easy to step around.
On my way back, I stopped at the kitchen store at the outlet mall and bought a set of star shaped cookie cutters for the Captain America cookies I was making for a friend. (The star has to be small, to make the project work, and the stars I had were too big.)
The sky was completely gray when I left the store, but the wind seemed to have died down--either that, or it was just the right speed to push so lightly, I didn't feel it. There were piles of gravel across the street where the new medical building will be built, but the machinery was idle. (I'd had a dream some nights ago, of sliding down the dark surfaces of the gravel pyramids, as if on an amusement ride, probably due in part to seeing a documentary on television of Disneyland.) The new assisted living building had only one or two workers on it, pounding away at nails.
As I walked through the parking lot to my building, the snow started again.
The cookies turned out great!
a youtube how-to video of Captain America shield cookies by Rosie's Dessert Spot.
I know I've had a long walk or two in that time, but I don't remember and I didn't write it down. I remember one Saturday I went to Miller's Landing, and that the path under the bridge still wasn't finished, and that it was closed off. I did cross the footbridge north of the park that connects to Columbia Park, walked through the residential area, and over the Columbia River bridge and up the hill to the stop light and then back down to the park. There were runners on the course who were discussing childcare, and it was before Thanksgiving Day. So that should have been the thirty-first day, and then there was another day, but again, I didn't record the days, so that's that.
The weather about the time of Thanksgiving was terrible, with deep snow piled up and the parking lot frozen. I did some stair laps, some television-led stretching exercises, some yoga, walking to the store and back, but nothing worth blogging about. I have noticed that my tee shirts go straight down instead of catching on my stomach or hips, that I walk faster to the store and am not winded when I get there, that going up and down the apartment steps is now easy.
Today I walked to the bank. Rain and snow fell earlier in the morning, but when I walked out of the apartment, the sky was a nice clear blue, fading to gray skies to the south, with strong winds from the south. I kept my head down as I walked into the wind. I was pleased to notice that the walk seemed to take any time at all, and yet it took 26 minutes to get there. Even the large puddles that were inches deep were easy to step around.
On my way back, I stopped at the kitchen store at the outlet mall and bought a set of star shaped cookie cutters for the Captain America cookies I was making for a friend. (The star has to be small, to make the project work, and the stars I had were too big.)
The sky was completely gray when I left the store, but the wind seemed to have died down--either that, or it was just the right speed to push so lightly, I didn't feel it. There were piles of gravel across the street where the new medical building will be built, but the machinery was idle. (I'd had a dream some nights ago, of sliding down the dark surfaces of the gravel pyramids, as if on an amusement ride, probably due in part to seeing a documentary on television of Disneyland.) The new assisted living building had only one or two workers on it, pounding away at nails.
As I walked through the parking lot to my building, the snow started again.
The cookies turned out great!
a youtube how-to video of Captain America shield cookies by Rosie's Dessert Spot.
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