a walk in the litter-hood

I have been lazy lately. Unless I have plans and someone to walk with I just excuse my way out of doing it. Right now it's I have tons of work to do.

Pat and I hit the sidewalk at about 6:30. But we only go maybe 5 blocks. About 500 steps.

At 8 am on the dot I went out and weed whacked the yard. By 9 it was too hot and sunny out. I'd love to go out at 6 am but the neighbors might complain! Tomorrow I'll mow. The sun has nicely dried everything, so cleaning up tomorrow will be a cinch. Plus I need to trim down the peony bushes. And when it's cooler tame the forsythia and the rose of Sharon. The problem with yard work is it really doesn't show up on the FitBit.

I worked for awhile and then headed out for a short walk. I was going around a big block. Up to Delaware, over to Clewell, back Sioux, and down Bishopthorrpe. I wanted to see two things. First was the little free library near Delaware and the other was my friends child's house. They did a remodel on the outside.

I headed down Bishopthorpe and once I crossed Itaska there was so much trash in the street, on the sidewalk, spilling out of the bins, it was a pig sty. How can one live like that. If you rent, lease, own, live in the yard in a tent, have some respect and clean up the mess. It costs no money. Just put in in a trash bag/can. Frankly, I wouldn't be able to look out the window. And I sure as hell wouldn't let my kids play out there. Guess it time to clean up the hood again.

I passed the Democratic Club and started watching for the LFL. It was GONE. One reason why I wanted to go past on foot was that it wasn't a birdhouse on a stake model. Someone repurposed a cupboard and put it out there. It was beautiful. Pam put the bird house model up in her front yard and I wanted to show it to her. The books were in plastic bins on the porch. My guess is someone took the cupboard and left the books. Assholes.

The house remodel was nice. But you really can't do a whole lot with a tiny Fountain Hill row house.

I carried my mask. I only put it on once. But the person passing me went out into the middle of the street. Six feet well maintained.

Miles/Steps:    2 miles (both small walks)

Weather:         88, 42% humidity, sunny.

PPE Found:      4 masks and 3 single gloves; 1 mask on my walk with Pat this morning.

SLF:                 None!