ok, so -- i wanted to make some adjustments to my new blogging world and then add a hiking thought for today ... hours later, here i am just writing today's blog!! I think keeping a good old fashion diary (might as well make it a 70's flower cover version, that has a lock and key that doesn't really keep anyone out) is a bit easier! but then you don't have all the bells and whistles that the good ole internet has - huh?! with all the pretty things you can add and all the other blogs you can spy on ..... but yes, that still leaves us hours after we started. good thing i don't have young children cause i know me -- they would be starving (food and attention)! how do you do it kelly jenny and michelle -- my younger heroines that I will always look up to!! :-)
about the whole diary thing --- who really wants to read about my hiking thoughts anyway?! but that is ok -- cause it is for my purposes really. and I add this thought after writing the next paragraph -- it sounds like a boring commentary on hiking and where to go that no one is really interested it -- ya never do know though -- if i am boring whoever is peeking in - sorry -- this is for my growth if ya want to know the truth :-0 and if I ever have a future really great revelation from God on a hiking trail -- or a really fun or funny story -- i'll let you know :-)
ok already -- back to the hiking :-0
nov. 10th -- another really lovely day out -- don't really feel all that good so i opted for an hour walk in the nearby hill -- I'll explain this hill and refer to it as AC exercise hill. it is directly behind my home. mike and i usually drive with ella
and park behind the school down the street though. i will tell you why -- ella is a wonderful hiking dog but not a very good lease dog! so, we get to where she can run free without the worry of cars!
as far as scenery goes the AC exercise hill isn't the best - maybe 2.5/10 -- i give it that because once you get to the top you can turn all around and see a pretty shot of AC (american canyon) and the grape hills leading into napa on 29 and then to the west the view of the water that runs through from the SF bay (not sure what it is called?) i leave the rest of 2.5 open so i can judge other hiking views as I walk them. and i need lots of lee way as i am hoping to see lots of great sites!! (anyone know the correct spelling of lee way?)
as far as exercise goes I will give it a 8/10 because it has a few great grades that i can go up and down; or i have the choice to take the path where is more level. this added to the fact that it is so close , ella is so free to run and i have never seen anyone else there makes it a good place to get my legs a movin!
that whole number judging is a funny thing -- I have to use it at work when I ask the patients about their pain level -- then I medicate accordingly. every time i ask I wonder how accurate the number game is! sometimes i will have a sleeping patient and they will wake up and say their pain is a 8 or 9 and they are as calm as can be -- same number a moaning tense faced patient might give me. and then there is the run of the mill general prisoner we get -- we can usually always count on them to be 10's no matter what they look like or even if they had some local anesthesia --- oh, that morphine!
today i wonder what mike would say the exercise and scenery number is at the AC exercise hill?? I'll ask him.
so, today i did 1 hour with mike and ella -- 4 good up and downs. the guy at the Minn. REI gave meg and me some good hints - one of which was to go up and right back down the same hill so that the opposing muscles are getting the same exercise. i was a bit out of breath (but still no cigs for a week now :-) and like i said I was already feeling a bit under the weather.
mike has been doing this much more than me -- the last few weeks he has been at that place with ella 1 -2 hours each day. ella always comes out with her furry ears adorned with weeds and thistles!
now I just need to bring a camera with me when I hike new places so that I can keep the places in the blogging. I also think i will start to carry a light pack with my water bladder and extra water for ella. she works herself up to a good thirst.
next goal --- checking out good hiking spots i can plan once or more times each month around the area. and use the ac exercise hill for getting ready between nicer hikes. if I am really good at this checking and planning then I can post all my planned hiking events one day and anyone can join me where ever i am at.
oh yeah -- another goal -- obtain a GPS so i can find good fun hikes that have a geocach :-)
oh my gosh -- i just found out another benefit to blogging as opposed to using a pen in my bad handwriting in that flowered covered 70's locked diary -- this has spell check!! i still think of my mothers comments every time I write something -- you know - the one about my spelling :-0
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yay! It's 1:30 in the morning and I HAVE to get to bed! But I read this latest post and look forward to reading the rest! Wish I could go hiking with you! And I'm SO PROUD of you for the no cigarettes for a week! You should get a prize! (go buy yourself a gps... I can't afford it.. but you can buy it as a gift from me to you. or maybe Meg and me to you. Either way, think of us and the fun we had! And some day I'll get one too and think of you!)
hooray!! I, too, wish I could hike with you! I love a good hike. It's my favorite excercise and especially with my pooch! I'd love to be with you. I'm excited to read more and see pics eventually.....although, I must say that I WOULD get a kick out of a 70's diary...in your wonderful (I mean it) handwriting!
xoxo
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