A couple of rain free days will spoil you. Woke up to rain this morning and it hasn’t stopped. I hate being stuck in the house almost as much as I hate walking in the rain. So here I sit, alone with my memories of yesterday’s hike.
It was an interesting path I found myself on. I was following the Hash marks from last week’s trail to see what I had missed. Fortunately, the Hare had used shredded paper rather than powder so it was still mostly visible. I had a hunch where the trail was leading but I turned out to be wrong about that. I missed a couple of turns and I had to retreat and search out the true trail. I was kinda of proud of myself for being successful at that, but finally I lost the trail for good on top of the mountain overlooking Barretto.
But now I wasn’t seeing any Hash marks and it appeared there were only two options: straight down or walking the ridge line. I took a few tentative steps on the steep down path and then thought better of it. Once I committed to the ridge I noticed there was no more paper, so I had chosen “wrong”. But I was pretty sure I had been walking the trail from last week in reverse, so if it was the steep path, they had come up it, not down. And down looked “slipping and sliding out of control dangerous” to me. No regrets with my choice!
I wasn’t exactly sure where I was, but I eventually could see my subdivision below me in the distance. I found a path that led down to that familiar ground and I deemed the afternoon a success.
After a poor showing at darts last night, I returned home to be greeted by my loving boys, Buddy and Lucky.
No real progress on the weight loss to report, but I’m working hard at staying on plan.
And that’s all I got on this rainy afternoon. Well, there is this:
Peace out!
Sorry about the rain. When does rainy season end, or does it ever end? It’s been going on so long that I’ve forgotten when it began.
Great outdoor pics, as always. Too bad your socks killed your dogs.
It should end sometime next month. July-October give or take. Then it will be a relatively pleasant (not as hot and humid) time until February when “hot” season starts.
Yeah, just knocked them out for a bit. They were back to normal this morning… 🙂
Meant to say that Lucky is huge, now, compared to Buddy!
Ah, I think that was a deceptive angle in the photograph. Lucky has really grown, but he is still a little shorter and smaller length-wise than Buddy.