Go, you chicken fat, go away!

Today is my daughter Abby's sweet sixteenth.  It's been a while since I ran, and I was feeling pretty blah, so I decided to do a thing I don't do very often.  Run in the afternoon.  I changed my clothes and was ready to head out when my daughter Julianna asked, "Did you get mom's text?"  "No."  "Oh, she said be ready to go at 6:45."  "We're going out to eat?  We're not ordering in?"  "Yeah."  Dang it!  Well, my wife was on her way back from Wickenburg picking up AJ, so I figured I could do at least one loop.  That's what I did, and that's all I felt like doing anyway.  So it was good.  Afterwards I showered real quick and we went to IHOP.  All 17 of us.

So Maggie baked a cake for Abby's birthday.  But apparently she forgot and made it yesterday instead of the day before on her actual birthday.  My wife said she felt bad and she cried.  I laughed.  I guess there's this Instagram thing where people use glasses to scoop out a piece of cake to eat.  That's what we did.  We're trendy like that.  Anyway, the cake was probably part of what caused me to not sleep well last night.  So I woke up early and decided to go for a run.  It was 5:43 am when I left.  So it was nice and dark, but it would be getting light out soon.  I saw a man walking his dog leaving the Floodway as I was entering it.  I stepped off the pavers and into the gravel to avoid them.  I said good morning to them, but I'm not sure if it was someone I knew because I didn't look at him that close.

As I got closer to Brown Rd. I saw another man running with a dog.  I immediately knew it was Jesse.  I asked in a loud voice, "Jesse?"  I listened and no answer.  But then I heard music.  He was playing music from his phone, so he probably didn't hear me.  He said, "Hey, Burt."  But I didn't say anything back because I had already said something to him.  He probably thinks I'm a jerk now.
 

Two days in a row!  Woot woot!  It was light out when I started.  6:42am.  My lungs were a bit congested so I forced out some coughs right before entering the Floodway.  The next thing I knew I was seeing stars.  I had to stop and compose myself.  After that, I felt fairly decent.  I still run slow, so that hasn't changed.

I slept better last nigh despite eating a cinammon roll before bed.  Dartell came back to town to see my new grandson and she made cinammon rolls for Abby's birthday.  She's been in Kingman for months.  After her mom died she went up there to help out her dad and brother. 

I woke up rather gassy.  I'm often gassy, but this morning I was especially gassy.  Oh that's right.  Dartell wanted Santa Barbera quesadillas for dinner.  Beans.  The American fruit.  Once upon a time I wrote a race report on this blog where I made many similes to gas.  I got censored because this is a family friendly blog.  LOL!  This entry may get censored as well.  So I got up early and it was nice and dark out.  As I was heading south between Brown and Adobe on the west side of the Floodway, I let one rip.  Right after that I heard a voice.  I couldn't see anyone at first and I looked behind me and back in front of me.  Finally I saw a man coming with a dog.  Was he talking to his dog?  Or did he have something to say about my expulsion?  Right after that I saw another man coming with a dog.  I didn't realize right away that it was Jesse because I thought the two guys might be together.  I reached Adobe and saw another guy and a dog.  So three dog walkers in less than two minutes.  Actually Jesse was running.

Oh, one more thing.  Something had our neighbors chickens agitated this morning.  They are down to 4 chickens because last summer they lost a bunch to the heat.  They had shade and misters, but the heat was still too brutal.  Just yesterday I noticed they have more chicks under a heatlamp right next to the coop.  So maybe the chicken was upset about the chicks.  Not sure, but it worries me.  Their chickens are safe in their coop from predators, but mine are not.  Last night was the first time in a couple of weeks that I didn't bring Maria inside to sleep.  But they're all good right now.  The End.