RRS (Really Random Saturday)

Today was a rather random kind of day, filled with surprises. Some of the were good and some, well, were interesting.

• I was run sponsor for the club run this morning, meaning that I had to get to the run extra early to put out water.
• I kind of got lost doing it, but to be fair it was very early, and dark
• Then I got lost again because there was a tree across the road and I couldn't figure out how to get to the next place to put the water.
• I eventually figured it out, but not before I was 30 minutes late to the run.
• It took me over an hour to put out water.
• Fortunately, the morning was cool and it was one of the better runs I've done in recent memory.
• The run was followed by a trip to the farmer's market and the health food store.
• I picked up a copy of Healing Lyme while I was there.
• Yup, I've been diagnosed with Lyme disease.
• Blimey! I'm a Lymie!
• Spent a large part of the afternoon reading how the Borrelia spirochete infects its host. Fascinating reading.
• The bluejays raised a major ruckus while I was reading.
• I went to investigate, thinking it was a cat. Instead, I found a hawk in our yard.
• Then a little later, a larger, different type of hawk perched in one of our trees.
• A hummingbird also paid a brief visit.
• The neighbors a couple of doors down had what sounded like a fun party.
• They even had a bagpiper!
• Fortunately, the piper wasn't bad.
• I also managed to clean the refrigerator.
• Met a friend for dinner at the Vietnamese restaurant in town.
• We shared a salad, three entrees, and three desserts.
• The waiter warned us that it was a lot of food.
• There wasn't much left over.

All in all, not a bad day (except for the getting lost part). I didn't get any knitting done, but I did carry the current sock-in-progress with me.

Now, I must to bed go. It will be another early start tomorrow so I can get to the run on time. Hopefully, there won't be any fallen trees blocking my route. I'd hate to be late to a breakfast run.

Happy knitting!

Bear Meets Cat

As promised, I present to you a guest blogger, albeit a day late. That's better than being a dollar short, eh? So without further ado, I turn the blog over to Keith (who is, alas, neither blogger nor knitter).

This occurred... in our front yard.

I had spotted the bear in our back yard and went to get the camera. By the time I got back to the rear deck, he was nowhere to be seen. Thinking maybe he had wandered out front, I opened the front door and found him on the front porch.

He did not care for this up close and personal meeting and scooted off the porch. Then he discovered one of our two cats (NoName), who had been sitting on the swing but, seeing the bear, had opted to attempt invisiblity under the swing.

Young Mr. Bear decided to see who was under there, and rather hesitantly tried putting his paw under the swing.





By then, both Barbara and I were on the front porch, and all of this seemed too much for Mr. Bear who decided to beat a hasty retreat.



Keith lives about an hour west of where I live and lives on a mountain. It's not unusual for all manner of wildlife to be found on his property. Last year (or maybe year before last), they would occasionally see a mother bear with two cubs wander through. Keith thinks that this bear is one of cubs. Rumor has it that a bobcat has also been spotted on the mountain. Fortunately, Keith and Barbara (and their cats) have not had an up-close and personal meeting with it.

It's Beachin', Baby!
Today's the day we head down to the beach. The house sitters are all lined up and the supply of cat food has been replenished. All that's left to do is to pack and leave. Tom is out on a 20+ mile run and I've got yoga class in a couple of hours. We'll be getting a late start, in the hopes that we'll miss most of the traffic.

One of the more important tasks is to decide what and how many projects to take. Definitely a sock or two, an unfinished project, maybe a new project, and some spinning. Do you think I'm overpacking?

Happy knitting!