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 […]

Day 213

I’m getting in my steps by walking my granddog today. Oliver’s spending a few days with us while our daughter and son-in-law are on vacation, but first he had to spend some time with the in-laws. This joint custody thing is tough. Oliver loves to be outside. When we’re out walking, he’s got his nose to […]

Day 212

July 31 – Report Card Day I met my goal of 11,000 steps on 20 out of 26 possible days for 77% or a C. That’s way better than April, May and June, but besides that, my daily average was 11,146 steps so I’m bumping that C up to a B or maybe even B+. […]

Day 211

Great day! Started out with a walk along the canal, breakfast at the Towpath Cafe, and shopping at the Fairport Farm Market. Almost every town has a farm market these days, and they’re all fun. They usually have music of some kind and fresh, inexpensive produce. I bought this beautiful bunch of sunflowers, a half dozen […]

Day 210

The all day rain made it easy for me to treat myself to a day of reading. I wanted to finish a book that I started when I was in Old Forge. The Highest Mountain, by David Pitkin, is a police thriller with a spiritual bent. It’s set in the Adirondacks, and I had my NYS map […]

Day 209

Today I went with some other members of the Wayne Writers Guild to do some poetry reading at Parkwood Heights, a senior living facility off of Rte. 31 in Macedon. The Parkwood is a beautiful, airy place with this lovely atrium. Most of our readings today were humorous or at least light-hearted, reflective of the place […]

Day 208 Ft. Stanwix, NY

Right in the middle of the city of Rome, NY is a reconstructed version of Ft. Stanwix. We came upon it while taking a different route home from the mountains. I love getting off the Thruway and finding things like this that I haven’t seen before. Ft. Stanwix dates back to pre-Revolutionary War times and […]