Cody’s blog

Well, I haven’t slept in this late in a long time! Not sure why I was so tired, but I guess I needed it, so I didn’t get out of bed until around 9:15.

I had a great run yesterday—it’s so much nicer to do  the long runs in town, on long, straight, flat roads, instead of stumbling around the house on my uneven, rutted, gravelly, dirt driveway. Finished the six miles in an hour and 37 minutes, just over 16 minutes per mile. I think I’ll be doing that for the long runs from now on.

I spent an inordinately long time yesterday laboriously entering all my old marathon training journal entries into my blogspot running blog, backdated to their original posting dates. I used labels on the posts to tag them for which marathon I was training for, and put the labels in my sidebar, so it’s easy to find the journal entries for each marathon. I also included a “Marathon Day” label for the actual race-day reports. Then I deleted the old journals, leaving only the two long marathon reports I’d done as separate pages. I also spent an inordinately long time re-designing the marathon reports, and I’m still not entirely satisfied with them. I’m wishing now I could do them as Pages, the way WordPress lets you do. Oh well. I’m also considering editing them into the journal entries. They’re long, but so what? Hm, I think I’ll do that…. Later….

There was another big fire somewhere yesterday. We could see the smoke-stained clouds in the sky to the south as we were driving to John’s place. I can still see smoke this morning, and I’ve been hearing helicopters all morning. Looks like a big one somewhere down around Rosamond.

In the afternoon, Mom and I went to my brother’s place for a visit. We petted horses (and doggies) and had a nice chat with John and Jill. We both agreed we should do that more often—we don’t see John & Jill often enough, and they live just over the hill.

Other than that, yesterday was kind of a bust. I totally forgot both my usual Sunday chores—cleaning the fish tank and pumping water. I can pump water today, but I think I’ll skip the fish tank this week. Or maybe I’ll do it later. I have a couple of chores to do for Mom: I need to call Suburban to come and fill her propane tank, and fill the gas cans for her generator. Also need to do some grocery shopping. I should do some housecleaning, but I guess that will depend on how much time and energy I have after the rest of the stuff is done.

I don’t know why I keep forgetting to pump water. I haven’t done it on Friday for about three weeks now. The last two weeks I at least remembered to do it on Sunday, but this week, I forgot that as well. I need to start paying more attention to my schedule. Time to start using my organizer again.

I didn’t take any new horse pictures yesterday, but here’s another older one of one of my brother’s horses and her foal.