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Good Morning, FS Warriors! Alarm still went off at 3:30 this morning, but I went to bed at 9:30 last night. 6 hours of sleep. It may not sound like much, but it works. I got up and did 4 miles on the hamster wheel. 1/2 mile warmup, 3 miles at a steady sub marathon pace, and 1/2 mile cooldown. Looks like I'll have 21 miles in for the week after tomorrow's run. Body is holding up pretty well, not ready for the scrapyard yet. Had a bowl of frosted blueberry shredded wheat, 2% milk and about 6 oz. of that blackberry cider, and I was ready to meet the day. The real question usually is, "Is the world ready for me each day?" A rhetorical question; don't answer that. I think I only have to make it to age 80; I'm sure they will have a cure for old age by then. :D
So, what's everybody's plan for the weekend? It's supposed to be fairly sunny here, with rather cool temps. I know I've got to put a lot of things up for the winter. I'm sure DW will have me staging some thngs for halloween. The church is having an outdoor weenie roast and a campfire, so I'll probably make my five alarm chili. It doesn't start out that way. I keep tasting it as I cook it, and I think I develop an immunity to the heat as time goes on. I'll add a jalapeno or habanero pepper and let it simmer a while. Then I'll go back and taste it and say, "Hmmm, could use a little more heat." Then I'll add another pepper, and repeat the cycle. A few hours later, people are taking the lid off the pot to clear up their sinuses.
When I pulled in the alley behind my home yesterday, I saw a couple of my neighbors working on the gate in the north yard. They said my lab jumped on the gate and knocked it down. I know what happened. He doesn't know he's a middle aged dog. The neighbor comes over to give him a couple dog biscuits everyday, and he (the dog) gets so excited he jumps up off of all fours over and over again and jumps up on the gate so he can get the biscuit. He's a loveable glutton. He's kind of like me; he is steered in life by his stomach. So, we finished reinstalling the gate. I've had a bigger gate out in the garage to accommodate being able to drive my trailer in and out, I just hadn't gotten around to doing it. Guess that's going to have to become another priority.
Had worship practice last night. Our group is diminishing. It was just the Pastor's wife and me again. The piano player would have been there, but she lives quite a ways away, and takes care of her husband, who isn't in great shape, and we don't make her come in for the songs she already knows. So, I was pickin and grinnin, and we worked up about 5 songs, mostly hymns.
Well, that's about all I have to say about that. Here's wishing you all a wonderful Friday, and an even better weekend! Toodles!
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