I woke up around 9am but then again, I didn't go to sleep until after 1am so that's not excessive. I didn't finish breakfast/lunch until 12:30pm. I finally decided on the Sungrubbies.com order, returning the UV Big Brella because it's so hard to close and not really very windproof. I ordered a replacement sun hat for daughter because she lost hers recently and a Golf UV Brella. It's huge - 60" in diameter. It's a stick umbrella that manually opens and closes so it should be easier to use than the Big Brella.
I don't know why in the world the Dr. Church wanted the foot and ankle x-rays delivered to him today. They took 5 x-rays of my foot and ankle in various positions. The triage nurse, said to get the preliminary results and the x-rays on a disc to the doctor right after I had them done. I did but he said he couldn't really see the x-rays on the disc - something about how his laptop computer screen was. I'll get the final results on Friday but the preliminary report says that I will live. Dr. Church gets a little excited! : )
I didn't get done at MANNM until 3:30pm and I was determined to get my exercise done during the day since I have to get up so early tomorrow morning to catch the Park and Ride to Albuquerque. I went to FR181 and got my 4 miles done in a splendid 1 hour and 15 minutes. I say splendid because while I was wasting time getting exposed to x-rays, it rained and everything on FR181 looked rinsed-clean-new. It reminded me so much of another walk along FR181 taken on a rainy day. There were little islands of innocent green young aspens, loads of Wooton's Senecio, a patch of red columbine and of golden smoke. I really liked the contrast of the sweet, new green of the aspens against the reddish colors of last year's oak and shrubs along with the golden grass. To top off everything, the sky alternated between clouds and sunshine and drizzling raindrops which really made the atmosphere beautiful.