Intended to sleep in this morning, but Laureen and I were both awake early, so we just decided to get up and go for a run. It was overcast when we left the house, but not raining. We ran the Highland Glen loop backwards and had fun kicking up the leaves along the creek path. By the time we were looping around the pond the wind had kicked up a bit and a light steady rain was falling. We stopped for a minute to watch a big balloon slowly descending into a field. It was apparently on a cord of some kind and was being reeled in by some guy in a pickup. We thought we'd jog over that way and see what he was doing, but he drove off before we even got close. The balloon was wider than the bed, so he had to drive kind of slow. We don't know what he was doing, but it was a nice distraction from the rain and wind. After he passed the high school and started south, the wind and rain started to let up and we made it home without getting completely drenched. | 