My kids are safely at their abuelitos house in Chile. I am not enjoying my time alone as much as I'd imagined. I sat on my front porch as I usually do on summer evenings and found the lack of 8-10 children shooting hoops, sidewalk drawing, or climbing the trees , rather sad. Even the cat and dogs kept looking at me for guidence about how they should spend their energy. They all sat at my feet as I rocked in the rocking chair looking at the mountain. All of us wondering what it is we're normally doing this time of night. Got up this morning at 5:30 to run with Cath. We'd planned 16, but she had to be somewhere by 9:00 and so had to be home by 8:30. I did the best I could, and kept a good 9 m/m pace for about 7 miles, but then just pooped out and ran really slowly the rest of the way. We only ran 14 together, and then I came home, ran one more mile with the dogs and took the most luxurious dive in the river. Me and the dogs floated around in that early morning chilly water, relishing the deep clear liquid shining in the sunlight, and surrounding our bodies with icy pleasure. So it was icing in the river, only funner, and with dogs. It was kind of fun to just loiter around in the river, walk home, do sit ups & push ups and then enjoy my totally clean and silent house for an hour. Soon enough I'll be jetting to Chile myself. Until then, what to do with all this extra time??? | 