If I’d realized that this run would be 0.01 miles less than my longest run ever, I’d have run another 0.02 miles. I did run it three minutes faster, though, despite the heat. 🏃🏻‍♂️

It may not be obvious from the picture below, but those sprinklers are not only blocking the sidewalk; they cover the entire right-of-way from the detention pond to the drainage creek. To get around it I had to walk through a parking lot, down the street, and back through two more parking lots.

A footpath with multiple sprinklers making the entire right-of-way, from pond to creek, wet

This post will go to twitter, but it’s the last post to go there. The site is no longer a place where I want to be seen.

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We have a great photo of our first boxer when she was a puppy, that I came upon while going through my dad’s files:

A boxer puppy on a picnic table, looking into the camera at just about eye level

Having just scanned that photo in, when Ashley jumped up on a picnic table on the way home, I spotted the similarity, and thought I’d try to recreate the vibe with her:

Ashley on a picnic table, looking past me

Not a complete success, I’m afraid, although it’s still a nice picture.