Trip Planning Gets ... Derailed

I started drafting a post on Friday: 

On the one hand, I can't wait to stop working and be on vacation, and it's taking forever to get there.

On the other, wait, I need to be packed and ready to go by when?

Right where I always am, in other words.

I have started to stalk the weather in upstate NY. I know that more then a few days out, it's not completely reliable, but it will give me an idea. As of midday Friday, this is what it says:

And right now, that idea is yes, pack your winter coat, Florida girl. Brrr!

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And now it's Saturday, and I'm looking at this:

Milton, currently a tropical storm but forecast to quickly become a hurricane, is looking very likely to hit us here in Florida on Wednesday. It's starting to look like I won't be flying to NY on Thursday, isn't it?

Happy birthday to me.

Shit, man. Just, shit.

Walking, Day 1

Elisabeth of the blog Optimistic Musings of a Pessimist is doing a walking club in October, and I agreed that I will try to walk at least 10 minutes a day every day this month (preferably outside, but that may not happen every day).

So, when I got home from going to the chiropractor this morning, I went for a 10-minute walk. Literally no more than that, since this is what the weather was at the time, aka 10 AM:

I don't plan to try and upset my early-morning routine* to go, since it isn't that much cooler; I looked at the weather around 7 AM and it said it was 81, feels like 91. 

*I am very reliant on my routine to get going in the morning, as I am not at all a morning person.

At least it was pretty.

Since going around the block takes longer than 10 minutes, and (again), it was super hot, plus I needed to get back to work, I set the timer for five minutes and turned around when it was time. Just as I was ready to turn, I noticed this little fellow on the sidewalk ahead of me. Hello, handsome! (The lizard, not the leaf behind him, obviously.)

I did pause on the way back to get some pictures of the burrowing owls. I can't resist them.

Their expressions range from "what are you looking at?"....

To "go to hell." I love them and their little grumpy faces.

I was actually dripping by the time I got inside the blessed air conditioning. It will be interesting to compare today's walk to the last day of the month.