Training Log Archive: bl

DP, walked c. 0.7 mi reading the paper (and staying in open to avoid DFs). Stopped to see what the Fri pm target shooter might have left behind: 3 different casings - 9mm Luger, 270 Win & generic, possibly 30 in all lying on sand. Went to see what's what with tadpoles: water dried up, swamp level down a foot. A great blue rose slowly, having had breakfast disturbed. It slowly circled looking like a miniature version of a pterodactyl (?), then settled on one of the PL towers, its thin neck and body, small head and stick legs presenting an interesting silhouette against the drab sky. Back to car, finished a good My Turn re the Wm Loeb, 50 y/o NH Pledge (no income/sales tax) and coaxed the dogs into the car with treats....Z clumsy and handicapped but enthusiasm-driven, Mocha merely floating up & beyond the rear bumper, drooling all the while.

BHS track at 5:30, wouldn't call it hot but it was better when sun was behind cloud plus there was a decent SW breeze. Really a rest day but wanted to "get out" & acres of grass, shade for exercises called. 1:58, 1:56, 1:51 400s - amazing to think how impossible twice that speed (which doesn't even seem reasonable to describe as 'speed') would be a 1:58 800.

Fixated on BB in am. Found a mapper for the next phase, thinking of taking a summer fling survey - curious re visibility in designated section. Mapper would be working starting around 8/22.

A period of record drought, heat, fire, flood, tornado...105F in DC today.
Are there any morons who deny climate change still?

Purgatory loop, out early, done by 0815, beat the heat. Think this might have been first time in summer. Deer flies were thick on Kimball Pond stretch. Know this route well enough to visualize what's ahead quite accurately. No one staring back in the Greenwood farm barnyard; further on, the alpacas were shorn of their coats. Drove to MHT after, a borrowed cell, from a man collecting his am paper, facilitating dropping the rental car off.

Returned to Thyua with Beth. Had considered hike to Jordan Pond but rain & miles to go had a way of changing plans. Things one might do with time in a garden:

Warmup



Salad greens


Topsy turvy

This guy landed on me so I understandably gave him a (gentle) wallop. He fell to the ground. I picked him up for study.
He was not dead or obviously mangled.

Beth's find

NEH end of day, to Thyua Garden looking lovely with late pm sun. Headed toward Asticou but came to road & decided I preferred woods so went back to Eliot Mt jct. & up to summit, hard to tell where and several cairns seemingly proclaiming same. A sign pointed to Thyua in a most unexpected direction. Followed that path back as I felt guilty having jogged thru
a sancturary to be savored. Late in the day, how nice it would have been to hear music from a lute, guitar or harp.

To town & back. Walked first mile to see how long a mile might take - about 19'. 1.75/3.5 mi is a bit long for a walk to town. Returned with some weight (wine/milk) in the backpack.

A run on Matinicus...tied to ferry pier (1-2 visits a month), considered a dark water dip upon returning. We’d seen some 13ish y/o girls jumping in there last eve. I could see it was possible to “make friends” with the water, dark water phobia be damned. A map w/o scale so get a sense...2 miles long of island, 6” of depiction. Miss some turns. Stop at church (which, of course, is unlocked) - try phone inside but don’t have # allowing distance call & no cell here. Go N & take right turn for the shade. Feels like a walk in Scandanavia to an O start but where are all the people? Glimpse a house thru trees so return to junction & go L this time. Summer rose everywhere. Right there, at an abandoned house, read “a loyal friend is better than 1000 relatives”. Continue & come upon the airstrip, go to water’s edge & then make my way back to four corners where I go straight (yesterday we went straight on the opposite option). Hear a solitary rooster along the way. Pass school, PO & cemetery. With some confusion, find road to South Sand beach, passed by yesterday entering Matinicus Roads...so very different an experience from land side. Have a “chariots of fire” moment on the shore cooled with a dip. Maine water is very cold. Think I might be on nature trail but not so & back to main road, cemetery & turn right this time for Bakery in Eva’s (signs to same) home. Yard full of vehicles, cooking gas canisters, one friendly old dog. Inside, I pick two blueberry coffee cakes the likes/heft/promise of which I have never seen. Back to the waterfront & chat with a woman who visits her SO in summer months. They bought a place at harborside in ’05. He’s a tatooed Kiwi who lives there year round (winter pop 20...). She is an academician who now works in DC. PhD in epidemiology and ran that dep’t at Yale medical school but was too often passed up & moved on. We talked briefly about ty 2 DM (pointed out its invasion of Iceland and China, a Western disease of obesity), how people might spend their time in such lonely winter outposts: alcohol & drugs & more & etc.... Back to boat where Beth was beginning to wonder where I was.