Go, you chicken fat, go away!

Today wasn't quite as hot as it has been.  It was in the low 80's.  I felt better.  I tried pushing the pace some.  I ended up going over a minute per mile faster than my last run.  Mind you, both paces were super slow.  But it was nice.

Back to being hot.  I took yesterday off because I couldn't sleep.  I felt awful today.  Not sure if it was the heat, or the day off, or the faster pace Monday.  Probably all of the above.

So yesterday we got a new chicken.  Sis. Lee texted my wife and said they caught one wandering down the street.  She asked if we wanted it.  Vickie said it's up to me, and I said sure.  So she brought it over late in the afternoon, and I brought it out back to integrate it with the others.  She was very nervous.  She didn't like when David would cockle doodle doo.  The other chickens seemed curious.  They would attempt to get close to check her out, but she would just run away.  After a while all the chickens went in their coop and Maria went to the other side of the pool fence.  Then Vickie got home and picked her up and put her in the coop with the others.  I stayed out and watched them for a while to make sure they didn't attack her.  She was still quite nervous and was searching for a way out.  After about 30 minutes I opened the coop to let them all out.  It was starting to get dark, so they would all go back in shortly.  But I'm not sure Maria ever went back in to hunker down for the night. 

So this morning I went out to go check on her.  She was fine.  She was kind of hanging around the others.  I hope they accept her.  Anyway, it felt hot, so I checked my phone and it said it was 93º!  Man!  I went running, and it was slow, but not as slow as yesterday.  It was 91º by the time I finished.  Vickie wondered how it could get cooler, and I told her about my theory of the sun rays pushing the air around which creates a bit of a cooling breeze.  Anyway, I didn't feel terrible.  So that's good.  I saw the old man in the fisher hat coming to the Floodway.  He was on the west side heading north and I was on the east side heading north.  I guess we were racing.  I was worried that he might be faster than me now, but I'm still faster.  Phew!  I got to Brown and I saw a lady walking down the street.  I also saw the tall old lady who had stopped at the gate to stretch out.  I ran by her and she turned and started following me.  Now I was racing her.  I was now on the west side heading south and then I saw the lady that was walking down Brown was on the east side heading south.  So I was racing her, too!  Well, she was definitely faster than me.  I didn't want to look back to see if the tall old lady was catching up to me.  Then the other lady started walking and I caught up to her.  But then she started running again and passed me.  This happened a couple of more times, but before she reached Adobe, she was walking again, and I beat her.  I finally turned around and I had put some distance between me and the tall old lady, too. 

I crossed  Adobe and continued heading south.  I saw the Ashcroft family on the other side of the Floodway.  This was the second time in as many days that I've seen them out this early.  Apparently my wife saw me here, but I didn't see her.  I turned and headed north again on the east side of the Floodway.  I saw my wife coming.  But I also saw a new hobo who had just woken up and was making his way to the gate.  So I stopped and kissed Vickie, and then waited to make sure she was safe.  Once she passed him, I started running again.  I saw another lady coming.  She was carrying a plastic bag.  Was it a dog poop bag?  I didn't see any dog.  Then I realized it was Amy Spencer.  I waved and she said, "How are you doing?"  I said, "Fine.  What's in the bag?"  She said, "Lunch!"
 

Well, we got a small monsoon last night.  It didn't rain hard, but it did rain.  Our giant pool floaty almost blew away.  The chicken hunkered down by the back door.

I woke up and looked at the temperature.  Low 80's!  Yee haw!  I did my normal 2 loops.  I saw 5 other runners out today.  It started to sprinkle in the last half mile.  Felt good.

I got home and went directly to the pool.  It was a mess!  Full of leaves from the storm.  I thought I would clean it a little.  Just to get most of the leaves out.  Our pool guy is supposed to come today anyway.  I started cleaning, and I didn't stop.  I even scrubbed it.  I'm finally sitting down to work now and it's 9:30am.  Oh well.