Weather, Running, Nostalgia
Topic: This and That
Happy 10th birthday, Misty! (Misty is our cat.) Even the cat gets a shout out on my blog. *grin*
I keep forgetting to mention something I saw Thursday. Larry drove Ryan and I home since the weather was bad and Larry didn't want us to have to wait for the bus. Just after leaving post, I saw a really amazing rainbow. Because of the landscape, it looked like the rainbow was rising up out of the ground to hover just above it. It was bright and beautiful and I'd never seen one quite like it.
Yesterday was busy, but I felt like I didn't really accomplish that much. I wanted to take Ryan to the play group at MHS. Larry kindly came back from work to pick us up. I dropped Larry off at work, then drove over to the play group. No one was there. I realized that for I-don't-know-what reason, I thought the group met from 11am to 1pm. It actually met from 10am to noon. Oops. Apparently two people showed up, were there until 11am, then left. I missed them by about ten minutes. Oh well. I decided to go ahead and go to the commissary and bx. I went back home and had just long enough to feed Ryan something, and try to convince him to nap (which he didn't) before turning right around to pick up Larry from work.
Later on in the early evening, Larry watched Ryan while I went for a run. I love to take Ryan with me, but going solo felt very freeing. I definitely run faster without a stroller to push!
It was really lovely out. It was still cool and a bit windy, but when running downwind and into the sun, it was pleasantly warm. With the arrival of spring, the area is coming to life and people are starting to be outside more. The trees are still mostly bare, but are starting to bud. Some are even blossoming in a pretty, delicate pink. There are daffodils everywhere.
I ran by a group of teenagers goofing around on the grass. They were chasing each other and wrestling around. It made me laugh and took me back. To be innocent and naive again. *wry sigh* We used to use football in the winter and swimming in the summer as an excuse to basically be all over one another. It was very innocent. (A very close friend's mom referred to our high school group of friends as, "the Nerd Herd." It doesn't get much more innocent than that!) I would never want to go back (I can't even fathom reliving over half my life), but I do miss the innocence of those times. We didn't realize it then, but we really were carefree.
Today was back to the more normal routine of taking Ryan for a jog in the late morning, then going into town later after cleaning up and eating lunch. The weather was its schizophrenic self. We had rain, sun, and rain in the middle of sun. I always like that. The novelty never wears off.
PS - I think it's ironic that on a blog spell checker, the word "blog" is not recognized!