Walking, Walking, Walking...

I had a grand time yesterday.

I had choir in the morning - walked from Billings down to First Ave, singing all the way, and then walked back afterwards.
Didn't get the solo in the Surexit Pastor Bonum (my voice has a really strong vibrato and, as such, does not blend very well with anyone else's), but I get to do a verse in Song for the Myra (not nearly as impressive, but still damn pretty - and I'll take damn pretty. ;-) so that's nice enough for me. Plus: I don't need to blend with anybody. Mwahahahaha! :-)

Picked up groceries, and mailed the CDs + Sheet Music down to my aunts in Ithaca.

Finished my t-shirt dress (it's a bit short - not by current clothing standards, maybe, but compared to what I normally wear? It could do with another two inches. Which I may or may not end up adding. :-) It's a drop-waist, pleated skirt, sleeveless thing with an asymmetrical neckline.
I'm thinking I may add some sort of buckle-like ornament to one of the, er... 'straps' isn't the right word... But you get the idea.
Basically a hacked-up version of those 1920s sailor-suit-based dresses (the kind that the CGIT middies were based on she said, for the benefit of the one person reading this who knows what she's talking about minus the sleeves and the blue flappy-thing that says "sailor" very loudly). Gee, that was unhelpful, wasn't it? :-)


Spent the evening over at Ami_B's, eating chicken and berries and drinking wine (more than I should have, I suspect), and munching on CAKE! :-D Which was, after all, the purpose of the evening. :-)
Walked from the transit way to her place, too. :-) (Yay-yay-yay gorgeous weather!)


I think, in total, I walked about two hours yesterday, which was wonderful.
Sadly, while my feet are pretty much fine and dandy (and I love ankle socks - they mean I can wear my transitional shoes (still need new sandals) - without over-heating my legs. Life is good), my legs (particularly my calves) are quite tight today.
Which is a sad, sad commentary on my physical shape given that, five months ago, I was on my feet for more than that, pretty much every day, and doing fine (other than the joint problems).
Still. The summer is young (hell, it's not even born yet), and I can get more walking in during that time. :-)


In other news: I think it would be awesome (and convenient) to have something like this. :-D

Perhaps I shall have to go snooping around that second-hand bike shop on Gladstone avenue (eventually - currently getting the piano tuned and getting a new pair of sandals are much higher up on my priorities list than a trike). :-)

That said: There is a bike path that runs out near Walkley road (I pass it on the train every day), and I can't find a goddamn map that will show me where that path runs.


[ETA: In other news, my husband hath a blog. :-)]


- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)

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Gaia Gathering has a freaking program up!
Yay!

Okay, now I'm getting excited. :-D


In other news: I think I'll go for a walk this afternoon and see if I can find that path entrance off Uplands Drive. :-)

More Random Poetry

Streaming

The clock ticks

if we met now,
would we have met at all?

The house is silent

cars on the road go by outside the window
you're upstairs and I can hear you
moving

The house is silent

is this the beginning of the end?

The clock ticks
And the present
Becomes the past


*~*~*~*~*


Where Do We Go From Here?

Where do we go from here?

(the album, unfinished, on the shelf,
the china growing dusty)

Where do we go from here?

(so many pictures,
a lifetime in five short years)

Where do we go from here?

(no roads where we're heading,
no signs to point the way.
We're sailing through uncharted waters now)

Where do we go from here?


*~*~*~*~*


Of Rue and Thyme

The garden is run wild,
a riot of fiery blooms.
But there is mildew on the vine.
And for all their riotous colours,
the fruit is bitter and small.


*~*~*~*~*


Medusa

You thought everything was fine,
That we were good again,
And then the truth came out,
Hissing.
A lightening lash with
Venom
In her mouth.

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So there's a little nature trail down the street from me, just past Archer when heading for Riverside from Huntclub.

I walked it today. It follows the little creek all the way to riverside drive.

The path is not maintained, the pavement is cracked like crazy, and mostly covered over decaying leaves and needles and stuff. Which is fine and dandy for walking. Not so good if one were to try and bike it. Not that I have a bike to try it with.

It's quite lovely, and I saw ducks! :-D


Sadly, I haven't found The South Ottawa Bike Path, but I'll figure it out eventually. :-) (I suspect the one I see from the train links up with the Old Ottawa South trail that stars at, like, Dows Lake, and "ends" at Mooney's Bay.

We shall see. :-)

Bike paths, even when not on a bike, make me happy. They are much prettier than busy streets and, conveniently, I don't have to share the road with cars. Yay! Lack of cars! :-)


Off to watch "Million Dollar Baby" with The Husband now. :-)


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- Amazon. :-)