mean aunt gayle

I am really bad at selfies. Can you tell we were at Bogart's bridge? Me either. We all do look ready to rob a bank.

Yesterday Bonnie called and asked if I wanted to walk with her and her grandson. The world's whackiest school year is over early so now she is on summer child care duty. The benefits of being a grandmother.

I met them at the house and Bonnie drove. First, she turned the wrong way and missed the entrance to the Parkway, then the alternate road was closed. That's how we ended up at Bogart's bridge. We headed east on the path and the child ran ahead. At this point, he was ahead a little. Soon he became fascinated with throwing stones into the creek. Bonnie left him to throw a few and then told him to stop. She told him three times and he didn't stop. Of course not. He know s her limits and he'll stop when she gets there.

He was not prepared for hurricane Gayle. STOP THROWING STONES. NOW. If looks could kill I'd be a dead woman. He was mad and started running ahead.  He'd let us catch up a little and ran further until he was really far ahead. He would not stop because he was angry with me. We kept calling him, he'd stop, turn around, and run more.

He finally stopped at the bridge. If he thought Aunt Gayle was mad before ...

I actually just used my sternest voice and said, do you see how big this bridge is? That's all the further you can be ahead. Not one inch more. And look, here the path goes across the bridge and straight. How would you know which way we were going? If you would pick the wrong way, we'd be searching for you.

 He was still angry with me.

Thank goodness for the solar walk. It not only distracted him, it kept him walking with us. We read all the signboard and counted steps to the next board. If it said it was 50 million miles away it was 25 steps. 250 million was about 125. It worked great till we got to Saturn. Then, Neptune, Uranius, and Pluto were BILLONS of miles. I am not counting that high.

I did notice that the Parkway has new mile marker signs. Of course it is all relative to where you start.

Thankfully by the time we finally reached Pluto, he could see the spring and the spring house, that kept his interest till we returned to the bridge and the lot.

When we got back to the house, he gave me a hug so I guess all was forgiven.

Miles/Steps:    2

Bathrooms:      there was a usable port-o-potty in the lot. It was occupied so I couldn't check the cleanliness
Wildlife:           mallards
Weather:          forgot to look at the temp. Sunny. Breezy.
PPE Found:      No masks and gloves but there was a sanitary napkin. thank goodness it was unused.

Extra:               I have not been having too much trouble with allergies this year. I think it's the masks we need to wear. the day we did Bethlehem to Freemansburg I had a bad attack. Yesterday I was on the phone coming from the car to the house. I got in the house and that annoying cough started. I excused my self from the phone and got some water. It didn't help. Ultimately I told them I'd call them back, and then it kicked into high gear. I thought I was going to hurl out one of my lungs. I sounded like my father. I really need to remember to look at the pollen count and to take meds.