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I ran at lunch time and have been used to sub 50 degrees. Wow. What a difference a day can make, that plus there are no trees on this end of river trail. I started by running a trail by my office, and thought my time would be so slow from running on gravel, but I was wrong. Those were my faster miles. Then I had to run 2 miles uphill to get back to my office, against the wind, in the sun, at about 70 degrees. I wasn't ready for that. But man, it was GREAT to be outside in the sun. No cows today, only cars. But yesterday, I took my kids down by the lake to show them the 8 new calves and colt. While we were on our byciles on the side of the road, all 8 calves came right up to the fence, and looked at us with their shiny black eyes and moist noses. They were all calm and curious. So my son says "Mama, they have no idea how mean we are to them. They should run away from us." I noted that they'd already been branded and tagged so they already had some idea. So then he gets off his bike, goes over to pet one through the fence for a second and they all began to crowd around him. If I haven't mentioned it before, we call him "Dr. Doolittle" and "The Cat Whisperer" because he loves animals, and they all love him back. Anyway, they crowded toward him to smell and lick his hand while me and my daughter stood a few feet away. Then looked up the embankement toward me and said "Let's not eat any more cow ever again." Why do they have to say things like that to me? No one loves a good steak like I do. So I suggested maybe we keep our own cow and I kill it myself, only in a nice way. He didn't like that idea either. | 