Reviving Bit by Bit

Even warmer today - yippee!  Did chores with spouse this morning - took receipts to bank for shredding, took 2009 investment magazines to MPL lobby, dropped off stuff to daughter, got gas.  Then, home for lunch which was actually the rest of breakfast, the remains of a blueberry, cranberry, cocoa smoothie.  Cocoa is my drug of choice and it may yet help me pull myself out of the holiday-induced funk that I was deep within.  OK, part of the funk was due to the extreme cold and not going outside for two days.  Let's face it, I will never become Nanook of the North.  When I was young, I fancied living in the far north but all I can say about that now is ha, ha, ha!

After lunch, I headed to White Rock to drop off a thrift shop donation, get the barcode scanned for the Learn and Earn Program at Smith's, go to the Post Office, return some stuff to the library and walk 4 miles.  The sidewalk in front of the thrift shop was burgeoning with unattended donations.  They have a sign saying that there is a camera which will record license numbers but I suspect a lot of the donations are hauled away before the thrift shop volunteers can bring them inside.  As I pulled up, a pickup with a trailer was hauling something off; although, it could have been for a legitimate reason.

As the recipient of the Earn and Learn monies, I chose the Youth Activity Center where my grandson goes. Post Office was out of the very pretty Forever stamps which feature the foliage and cones of 4 different conifers.

For my four miles, I walked from the library to Overlook Park via Meadow Lane.  Chamisa Elementary School was letting out and there was a fair amount of traffic going up and down Meadow Lane.  On Overlook Road, ran into a woman who aims to walk 5 miles a day.  I told her she made me look like a slacker with my piddling 4!  She says they moved here last February and that her husband is trying to systematically walk all the trails.  I asked if she had heard of Craig Martin's Los Alamos Trails, which I consider the hiking bible for this area.  She hadn't so I recommended that she take a look at it.  Enjoyed the view from Overlook of the Rio Grande.

Back at the library, my GPS said I only walked 3.5 miles so then I followed the snow-covered sidewalks over to Smith's and back to rack the tally up to 4 - yay!  Now I know - park at Smith's and walk to Overlook and back for a cool 4!