At least 3 times today I was going to go for a walk, and it started to rain or it looked like it would start to rain. Finally at 7:45 the clouds were white and blue instead of gray and black, and the sun was shining even as it was sinking. I started out of the house without a real route in mind and ended up at the local school. Was it ever lonely there! No kids on the playground, no one running around the track, no one kicking around a soccer ball. The birds seemed to have taken over the soccer field, but even they seemed to be lamenting rather than singing. I walked around the track a few times, got my steps in and then went home, lost in my own thoughts, but I wanted to turn around and say, “Don’t worry bricks and grass and sidewalk, the kids will be back in September.”

Day 175: 11,024 Steps  YTD: 1,567,671 Steps Goal: 1,650,000 Steps