I don't know what to call this post.....

Today was a pretty sweet day overall. Shelly and I met at the usual time and place. We have made it official - we will run each M - W - F - so please come meet up with us if you ever want to. 6:00am, Gleason, then run the causeway. We have made a further commitment to add a second run to those same running days to prepare for the Ragnar. My sister HB asked what the Ragnar race is - it is a 202 mile race, relayed between 12 team members. We will each have three legs to run, ranging anywhere from 3.7 miles - 9 or 10....can't remember exactly. (Colleen if you read this maybe you can add some details??? and tell us which leg we are running!!! How scared do we need to be?) The run will take place on November 19th - 20th and will be from Clearwater FL - Daytona Bch. I have heard this is a beautiful stretch.

Later, I did more running at the gym and some other stuff. On my way home from some of that stuff I drove past our "new" neighbors and waved for the bazillionth time. When do they stop being new neighbors? After living there one month, six months, a year? I am guessing they will become regular neighbors when we (I) actually walk over and meet them. They were sitting outside visiting. I decided to get er done, you know, be productive. I snatched one of the bags of Milano Cookies and made the trip. Dan and BB - they are a nice couple. We were having some light chit-chat, and then I asked, So what do you two do? DUMB. They proceeded to tell me of their day jobs, etc. Then of course they asked me in return to be polite. Man, that really caught me off guard. I was ho-humming around, trying to think of something not totally loserish to say. I like my life, but saying I have a new blog, and do running, and couponing each day didn't sound like enough. I was stumped, they knew it, and I knew it. Next thing you know I am having to dig up what I used to do to sound like a contributing citizen.....aaaa well, I used to home school our kids, but now I don't. I am still working out the details.....and I went to the beach today.

At the beach.....of course it was dazzling. I found a new spot that was empty. Just a few specs of other humans a ways off. There was a nice breeze, I was just stopping for an hour or so. No guilt or harm in that....I have allotted myself a guilt free stint of time, up to 3 hours of beach time each week. Taken probably in 2 installments of 1.5 hours each.

Nothing but blue skys.....puffy white clouds......fluffy bubbles.........white surf.......
Smooooooooooth sand as far as the eye can see.........
and this bright Red................!? This really stopped me in my reverie. An abrupt halt.
I left the beach soon after this sight. When I pulled up to the house, I was not disappointed to see Kevin's truck in the drive way. Not even really surprised....I'm trying to pinpoint just what I felt....caught?....yeah, that's the one. Anyway, I went in and acted nonchalant about the whole thing....I immediately got right into sewing that button on his shorts that came off a few weeks back. Busy, busy....I finished that right up while he was still there. All done. I will check that off my list.