Day 223

I hit the 2 million mark today. Steps, that is, not dollars, but wouldn’t it be nice to trade in those steps for cash? Come to think of it, people do just that when they raise money for charity with a 5k or 10k or a marathon. My friend, Casey, is walking in a race […]

Day 222 Hedges

I spent part of day 222 with the #22 School teachers. How’s that for karma? We met for lunch at Hedges on Lake Rd. and Rte. 250 in Webster. Today wasn’t exactly a perfect day for visiting a lakefront restaurant, but we were able to enjoy the view for a while before the whitecaps came […]

Day 221

One of the things on my summer to-do list every day is checking the skimmer basket on the swimming pool. In June it’s always full of cotton, in July it’s Japanese beetles, and anytime it rains, it’s full of frogs. Sometimes when I lift the cover off a frog will jump out at me. Although […]

Day 220

Day 220: 11,004 Steps YTD: 1,980,671 Steps Goal: 2,068,000 Steps

Day 219 Rochester, Kent

Everyone knows that Rochester, NY was named after Col. Nathaniel Rochester, who came from Maryland along with William Fitzhugh and Charles Carroll to buy an abandoned mill site on the Genesee River. They could see commercial opportunity here. But I got wondering what the name Rochester means. I looked it up, and discovered that it […]

Day 218 Park Ave. Festival

Don’t you just love living in Festival Town? Park Ave. is one of the best. Robyn and I thought we were getting there early at 9:00 ( the festival doesn’t open til 10:00,) but we had to fight for a parking spot even at that hour. The Frog Pond was hopping (pun intended,) and we […]

Day 217

Morning walk, noontime cleaning, and afternoon shopping put me over the top with steps today. Day 217: 13,314 Steps YTD: 1,957,401 Steps Goal: 2,046,000 Steps

Day 216

At a sunny 65 degrees it was perfect walking weather this morning when I set out for my regular route in the Gananda development. Just past the halfway point, there’s a house with a big pool. It’s almost at the end of an uphill stretch, and it’s always at this point that my body starts […]

Day 215

Day 215: 8,572 Steps YTD: 8,110 Steps Goal: 2,024,000 Steps

Day 214

I spent some time today at the Rundel Library working on family history. This started as curiosity about my mother’s twin half-sisters who died in the Rochester Orphan Asylum fire in 1901. My mother would mention them often along with the warning not to hide under the bed if there was a fire – apparently […]