My new shoes : (

The morning started out warm with a temperature of 62 degrees. At the start of my walk there was some fog around but it burned off quickly and my walk was nice and sunny.

 I got a new pair of walking shoes on Saturday.  I have been wearing New Balance walking shoes for years, but just couldn't find a pair that felt good this time.  I tried on a pair of Nike and they felt great - very light with good padding inside.

So this morning I was all excited to be wearing my brand new pair of shoes.  I walked about a mile and knew these were not good walking shoes for me.  I could feel my left heal rubbing, and another half mile I could feel a hot spot which meant I was going to get a blister.  I was walking around the lake and was about a quarter of the way around and took the path to the main road and came back home.  Just coming up to the main road a couple of trees lay across the path here, being blown down from last nights storm.

By the time I got home, sure enough I had a blister on the back of my left heal.  I had only walked a little over three miles.  I put one of these band-aids on for blisters on my heal,

put on my old walking shoes and was out the door again.  My walk continued as I walked along a couple of paths through the neighborhood.  A lot of people were out this morning by the lake and on the second part of my walk.  I saw lots of birds and a few rabbits.
When I walked passed a neighborhood of townhouses I found a nickel between two parked cars waiting for me to pick it up.
I was home after walking a little over three miles this time too, so walked a total of 6.6 miles.  My heal was just fine for the rest of the way with the band-aid and my old shoes.

Sunrise 6:17

Sunset 7:55

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I never did walk yesterday morning but I got a good amount of exercise doing yard work at the old house.  We left early morning and I spent four hours doing heavy yard work with a bit of help from Ken.  He is getting things ready for a yard sale he hopes to have some week in the near future at the house.  When we lived there I had the front yard looking really nice with lots of gardens, with rock paths and stone walls.  It was a lot to keep up but I enjoyed it and would work in the yard most days.  Now that we don't live there I just can't keep up with it.  So I am in the process of taking the gardens out, moving the rock and stone to the back of the yard and just making it easier in the long run to take care of.  I just want to be able to go over there and mow and trim and be done with it quickly.  We have let the yard go and it looks really bad.  Four hours have just put a dent in the work.  But with the nice weather coming up it, I should be able to get it all done. We have no plans to sell the house yet.  Ken loves the huge garage we have there and he has a work shop out back too.  We will sell the house one day when the prices decide to go back up.

I finally got outside today and washed my very dirty car and now she's looking good again.  No car washes for my car - I like to wash it myself. : )

Such a pretty sunny day out so far.  I ate lunch out on the deck and now I have to get some work done in the house.  I'll be out on the deck again later though.

A happy day to you on this fine Monday.
Happyone : )

Rest is not idleness,

and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees

on a summer's day,

listening to the murmur of the water,

or watching the clouds float across the sky,

is by no means a waste of time.

~ J Lubbock