96 Monday Sep 6

Monday Sep 6 Day 96

I took my night mask off at 6:30 this morning and there was a bright light in my eyes. I dressed and headed outside. There was not a single cloud overhead. The sky is a brilliant blue with only a couple of high clouds of the the southeast. It was raining when I went to bed and we were in the clouds. I looks like I will get started on the taping this afternoon but one never knows. This may just be a temporary break in the clouds. By 9 am the sky was clouded up but not with storm clouds but with evaporation clouds, in other words, “local” clouds. It looks like I will have to do my taping under cloudy skies. It is now 1 pm and the “local” have betrayed me and joined ranks with storm clouds and a dropping their vile liquid on the trails. The presence of this ghastly fluid puts a stop to my wild imaginings of starting to video tape the trails. But I wax eloquent.

I walked this morning and got he GPS to record the actual altitude and distance of the trails. The map it created even shows the switch backs I climbed.

On the lawn here at Kilmarnock are lines of stepping stones made from pieces of slate rock. I had thought there were put in to protect the lawn from being walked on. I now know the real reason. These stepping stones are the only way to get across the lawn without sinking up to your knees in the water logged ground. Walking across the lawn would leave one with muddy, soaking shoes plus the distinct possibility slipping and falling.