Tuesday late afternoon July 19 UPDATE

Al! Mary! im happy to report that the turtle is still in the pond. I've been worrying about him.....wondering if turtle meat is what the crows have been joyously rackus about there dancing around in the meadow in the morning; but i saw him. I found a lovely black and white feather in the driveway this morning on my first lap and figured with all that commotion in the meadow every day those crows MUST have dropped one or two. (feathers) And i went to check out the bird house to see if the fly-catcher has left the nest yet.... i wandered down across the meadow looking for feathers and found myself finally enjoying a bit of sunshine next to the pond. At first he, the turtle, lazily swam toward me along the edge of the pond just by the weeds. He must have been hunting for bugs. Like the buck, he didn't see me at first...finally he raised his head and looked at me trying to figure out what the heck i was because i sure didn't blend into the natural flora. Deciding to err to caution he turned away to the middle of the pond where he dove down and out of sight. 2PM still seems and feels like 5 im hoping that wears off soon. I missed someone's call just a while ago. No message. so if you are calling please leave a message. Another lap down the driveway. Im trying to do one every hour. I don't know how far it is down and back but im trying to keep moving. Tuesday evening..... what was that saying about best made plans? when i got back i went in and did the Yoga tape.. and i vacuumed. just being productive, and i checked to see what was on tv. HOUSE HUNTERS INTERNATIONAL i love that show.....well, i was dozing off ( because that's what television does to me) and the phone rang. It was keith and we had a nice conversation about all the babies and about work and ....the chicken wings he had for supper.......i had just finished telling him that i hadn't wanted to eat since breakfast but was going to have my yogurt...... CHICKEN WINGS! ONE OF MY FAVORITES! so you remember that ravioli i was saving for tomorrow? i totally enjoyed it for supper love you will write again tomorrow. love Sally/Mom TUESDAY NIGHT UPDATE another Lap. i must do another lap.....out the door and crunching across the driveway to the road.....getting easier i notice ....getting in motion that is. up over the little incline and down down down to the next driveway where that cute little chuhauua / corgi mix ( i don't know how to spell chuiuahha i know, i know ) anyway she was loose and wiggled over to see me and smell me and started running circles around my legs and following me. I turned back up the road and down to the driveway with her running after me and past me and back again full stretch. She got into the yard before i did and sniffed after the poodles so i headed back up the little hill again and down toward her house. She was a good little dog and followed so i brought her back down the hill to her driveway again, and turned back up toward the house feeling pretty good about putting in the extra laps. OH i got about 50 feet from the gate and heard this thundering crash coming down the hill to my right through the brush and the two bucks, stopped, right there in the middle of the road in front of me. they just stopped. and LOOKED at me .....of course this time i didn't have my camera i was only walking for the exercise. I wasn't sure what to do ...I didn't want to scare them, but wasn't sure just how curious the were going to be? But here to my rescue, little super dog came running up behind me barking like the crazy little mutt she is and they bolted up into the meadow behind the dog pen. Little mutt, back into the driveway sniffing poodle. I called her and headed back down but looked into the meadow and one of the bucks was just standing there. right in the clearing. just watching me. clearly, trying to figure me out. I took little dog back home again and came back to the house feeling pretty smug about my extra laps and all excited about the bucks. I don't think i've seen the last of them. much love Mom/Sal