Up early for our 5K Walk…my foot felt fine for walking. Just a minor soreness in the area where the toes meet the foot. Figured there must be a medical name for the area so I googled it; it’s called the metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joint. But since I don’t walk on my tippy toes it wasn’t going to be an issue. As a preventative measure, though, I slathered Icy Hot on my foot and called myself ready to walk.
Last year there were 45 people signed up;
today there were 10 people signed up, only 8 showed up and 5 of those were
runners. It was obvious who was going to be bringing up the rear. 😎 We started out walking
with Dan and Rhonda, but it didn’t take long for Rhonda to break into an easy
run so that left only 3 of us walking.
But it was a beautiful morning, Dan was good company, and everyone was
back to the finish line in under an hour. I
tried a speed walking move that pulled me slightly ahead of Dan and Kim but not
by much…I finished less than a minute ahead of them. My time was 57:42 and Kim’s was 58:34. We
didn’t break our times from last year but it was under an hour so I’ll take
it. And even though they were the last
to return, Kim and Dan tied for 1st place in the Men’s 61 and over
age group. They were the only two in
that age group.😄 Since Rhonda received a trophy for winning the Women’s 61 and
over category, Dan graciously allowed Kim to take the trophy home. That way both households have a trophy. Participation medals were available for the
first 75 participants…no problem with running out of those this year. Small
town festival fun…I look forward to doing it again next year.
After the race we went over to Tag’s Café to get breakfast and undo whatever healthy gains we had made by walking.
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No action on our desert cell cam since the
coyote sighting early Thursday morning.
Might be time to change its location.
The Nutt Rd. cam did get a picture of a jack rabbit last night but no
video. Interesting since it’s set to do both. Still trying to figure out why
the third camera still thinks it’s in the U.P. at Kim’s hunting blind. Totally reset the camera to no effect…next up
is the camera card. Apparently, these cameras are particular about the type of
card used.
1:30 p.m. Update on the stubborn camera: I removed the battery and completely charged it and stuck a random SD card in the camera and suddenly it’s working properly. I think taking the battery out was the key; sort of like when I turn off my phone or computer to teach it a lesson. But whatever it was, we now have three cameras that know they’re in Picacho and are ready to take pictures.
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Kim lost his imaging data from last night.
Not exactly sure why…could have been that he inserted the thumb drive into the
ASI Air out of sequence or maybe the thumb drive had a problem even though it
worked fine the night before. The drive
had the ASI Air folder on it but wouldn’t open it. A message popped up saying
the drive was corrupted and needed to be repaired. After it was done repairing,
the folder was gone. Kim is fairly certain that the data was there even though
he couldn’t access it and the repair deleted it. However, that’s an unknown. What
we do know is that 4 hours of work was gone. It’s all a learning process, I
guess. Mistakes contribute to the whole
of his knowledge even if they are frustrating.
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Beautiful sunny day today; perfect for a
ride except that the battery on Kim’s bike was dead. Fiddled around trying to jump it but finally
decided the best thing was to buy a new battery. That required a trip to
Coolidge and after a late lunch at a food truck, we headed back to camp so Kim
could change the battery out and I could watch for birds to come to the feeder.
We had intended to ride over to the desert camera but after the trip to
Coolidge and working on the bike we decided to take the truck because the sun
was going to be at a wicked angle for Kim’s eyes on the return trip. But Flame started like a champ so we’re good
to go on the bikes now.
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Made a minor adjustment to the desert cam
and took out watermelon rind to entice the javelinas. Kim didn’t think the
watermelon was all that good; maybe the javelinas won’t be as picky.
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While Kim was working on his bike, both the male and female cardinal were anxious to get to the feeder but just couldn’t quite bring themselves to commit. Kim’s bike is under the tree and he was just
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40 Days of Lent
challenge: Sit in silence
today, asking God to reveal where you need to give up control. Tweaked
this one: I used my 5K walk as an opportunity for silence and praying. Now to
wait for His answer and be able to respond accordingly.
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Epilogue: I finished writing this early in the evening but was struggling with a song title. I usually do a Google search on some random topic I’ve written about; tonight I was looking for a song about being last or finishing last but nothing was catching my eye. A song popped up that had nothing to do with my topic but I put my ear buds in to listen to it anyway and before I knew I’d spent almost two hours watching Taylor Swift videos, including all the outtakes from Shake It Off. Two freakin’ hours! Not something I would normally do but now I think I have my song title as well as a song stuck in my head. 😎
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