I have a new walking route, which takes me 40 minutes. I think it’s about a mile & 1/2, but the cheap pedometer I bought is unreliable. Sometimes it counts and sometimes it doesn’t. It’s a good walk, and if I do it every day, sometimes twice/day, perhaps I may even lose some of this extra weight?
Last night I walked it rather late. It was dark when I finished, but there are lights around *most* of the pond and neighborhood. It feels incredibly, boring-ly safe here. The funny thing was, it was so late when I finished, there were little toads hopping all across my path. The night sounds are still so freaky to me, I’m not used to them. I love listening to them as I go to sleep. There is all kinds of night life around the pond that doesn’t come out during the day.
For 1/3 the way through May, we have daytime highs in the 80s, the magnolias are in bloom, the azaleas are done and gone. A 9am morning walk is still cool in the shade, hot in the sun. Dragonflies flit about, never landing on you, but there aren’t a lot of them yet. It has been very dense, or humid, so with a late evening walk, I come in sweating. This morning, I saw a little baby turtle about 3 inches across, who quickly swam under the mud and a rock in the pond to hide from me when it sensed my presence. The adult turtles here are coming out recently as well. They bob their heads above the water, are about 9-12 inches across, but as soon as they sense a human, dive down into the pond water.
Doctor Grandma 
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