77 degrees this morning, 38:23 minute walk.
The cold weather makes me value even more the early mornings on the patio with a slight cooling wind.
During the long winter months I tend to forget how nice it really is to sit outside in the early morning coolness before the hot day starts.
It may be a little different this winter since I actually could be outside but under a patio roof with a fireplace burning! Not near the same, but it would be outside.
While I enjoy my walk, it probably is also one of the “have to’s” I do, I feel I simply have to keep walking. Probably the amount of time it takes is what I dislike the most. I also feel I need to do my situps and barbells each morning, a matter of “use it or lose it”.
Somewhat the same about swimming, except I really d enjoy swimming, just like I enjoy walking. I always thought I’d like to live in a place with an indoor swimming pool and this is the next best thing to it. The pool is well maintained (the water is probably a little too cold for me!) and always feels so good.
The main problem with swimming, it is so boring. I currently swim about 20 minutes and this is about right for a time to reflect without any other intrusions.
I can get a waterproof case for my iPhone/ipods, but I really don’t know if I want to right now. If I swim much longer, maybe so.
I probably could find a waterproof case for one of my “re-purposed” iPhones (I love the word “re-purposed”) and use it strictly for a swimming phone, which would make sense. I probably could buy a waterproof case cheap and use it just for that purpose, since I really have too many “re-purposed” iPhones, iPods and iPads etc. already, although I”m not sorry I kept them.
I have found that I literally can’t stand to use a stationary bike or treadmill without something to read (or watch), but I can walk in the outside or bike without one.
Currently I am using my re-purposed “original iPad” to listen to my books on my morning walk. I just carry it in a really light backpack. For some reason, it has an extremely strong battery, even after (I believe I got it in August of 2010) five years of relatively heavy use. It runs the app fine, which is all I need and a lot easier than downloading a book or listening on CD’s.
However, I do like periods of silence. One thing I like about my “post walk” nap is that now I don’t listen to any music or anything (that could change), but it is my “thinking time” although I normally go to sleep before I have too much time to think! My other short naps I normally have music on when I nap, or occasionally the tv.
Speaking of dreams I had a really strong dream yesterday morning.
8 21 15 Dream
Dreamed I look my bicycle out for a ride. I rode to a street I thought was an open street, but it was a dead end with a junk yard on all sides of the street.
A young man was working there but couldn’t answer my questions.
While my bike was parked at the junk yard, a motorcycle rode over it and destroyed. I looked for even the frame but couldn’t find any part of the bike.
I spent the rest of the dream trying to explain to the people at the junk yard what had happened.
I remember thinking now I would have to buy a new bicycle and was trying to decide what to get.
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Dream was so strong, I actually went out and checked on my bicycle after I woke up.
Seemed to be an element of searching trying to find someone to tell but I couldn’t explain it.
Persons I recognized from the dream are Angela, Aliene and Kali and Katherine.
Strange dream. I have noticed many times how my dreams are influenced by the environment, such as sounds etc.
That’s it for now, Saturday, August 22, 2015
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