hurry up blog post

one day soon i may catch up and have a little time, but not today for sure. still getting over jet lag, but almost there. last night's 4 hours of sleep didn't help much. tonight won't be much better probably, but at least i will be more back on the usual schedule.

the "tent" house is really starting to fall apart even more and here's hoping i will hold on for 6 more weeks without us getting too sick. but more on that later.

today after some short few hours of a miserable sleep i went out to run. still early and almost cold as it was about 50 degrees and a little windy. turned out to be somewhat windy all day long. i ran north on binsey towards the village and cut over to port meadow where i ran into two americans not quite sure of where they were and how to meet the cab they had called. spent a few minutes explaining the options and that went ok and the cab met them at the end of the lane- seems they were living on a small boat on the thames for 2 weeks. she was headed back to oregon while he stayed here for two more days. on i went.

over to the thames and south past the cows. into the wind also, but at least it was not 100 degrees with deep humidity. over rainbow bridge and down the thames. the workers had made lots of progress while i had been gone and had also made a long detour for the next phase of trail repair. the water was a moving green color and the ducks and swans moved along quietly and in apparent hurry. i kept going also, at a speed that made it look like i was in no apparent hurry either. all the way down to botley road and then over to the canal and north back to walton lane and port meadow. i did this loop three times rather than get too far away today as i knew i was tired and at any moment i might want to stop.

but i hung on for about 7 miles and then headed to the store for food and supplies.
then home and back into town to go to the bank and run some other errands. got that all done in an hour or so and walked home. another 10 miles of movement. almost miss my car.

back to the tent house and did some laundry while i ate a little breakfast. then headed up to the range and hit 200 balls working almost totally on drills with some chipping and pitching thrown in. went pretty well until the last 20 balls or so and i could tell i was fading in my focus. time to go home and relax.

read some while waiting for gail to come home and we had a nice little dinner and then went for a cooldown walk- chilly out actually. we walked over to the community center and past the lawn bowling courts to the old swimming hole and water falls. very pretty back there and clearly there are not many visitors back here these days. walked past a "no golf" sign. sort of funny as i doubt many people come back behind the community center to hit golf balls.

then home again to deal with bank stuff and all sorts of admin paperwork. now the blog. then fold clothes and try again to get some sleep. have slept about 12 of the last 96 hours. what can i say? not quite the way i had planned it, but will catch up somewhere and maybe answer some of the many emails i have not the past few days.

a joy to run here again i must say. the local pub, the perch is set to re-open in july, having been re-built again after its' second fire in two years and the village of binsey is planning a "fete" to celebrate. should be fun.

more tomorrow. maybe the sciatica will cooperate and allow some sleep tonight. peace.