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Fantasies of Lunch

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Brain cancer is...  ...newly appreciative of the meal we call "lunch." At Mile 5 of our walk today, we thought the title of today's post would be "the Santa Ana River Trail."  You see the tree-lined trail to the left of the bike lanes, above.  Back at Mile 5, we thought this new-to-us trail would be the most interesting part of our day. Then we started getting hungry.  We packed plenty of water, but we seriously under packed enough food to sustain us on a four-hour walk.  We know!  That's a newbie mistake! We don't know how it happened.  We compounded our error by planning the walk to span lunchtime, so not only did we not have enough snacks, we also missed a meal. At Mile 7, we fantasized about peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.  At Mile 8, we started walking very close to family parties with hot dogs on the grill.  None fell.  At Mile 9, Darrell said, "I wonder what egret tastes like." Then we just stumbled through to the end of Mile...
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Taper.

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Brain cancer is...  ...tapering. Since returning home from vacation yesterday, we have gone out for a meal only once each day.  Shocking.  Imagine tomorrow, with further tapering.  Gasp. In Other News It was a beautiful day...in many places. When we sent Meridyth and Nolan the picture of our nice morning at the park ...we got a glimpse of rainy Lexington, Kentucky, from Nolan  ...and a snowy Wisconsin morning shot from Meridyth. To close the day, Meridyth shared a proper grand finale sunset. Bravo!
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Meanwhile, Back at the Park...

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Brain cancer is...  ...sad about the rain damage at Craig Park. We returned from Carlsbad this morning to walk at the park.  Walkers gathered and shook their heads at all the damage caused by the storms.  The common theme was, "It wasn't that bad of a storm!" We counted four toppled trees.  Above is the saddest.   Here are a couple others: Very disconcerting.  The Bee Tree cheered us up, though.  Go, bees, go!   Click here for alternate YouTube Bee Tree link.  Welcome to the weekend, Team D!
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Museum Day

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 Brain cancer is... ...glad we walked yesterday. It rained all day.  Darrell’s quote of the morning was, “It just doesn’t feel like vacation without a museum.”* We had so much fun at the Museum of Making Music .  Good call, Darrell.  Here’s the video. Click here for the alternate YouTube link. *This was not his only quote of the day.  At 4 a.m., Darrell asked, sotto voce , “Hi! How’s your night going?” It was hard to stop laughing in order to go back to sleep.
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Walking Day

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Brain cancer is... ...happy to be on the other side of 10 miles. Today was walking day.  We scouted out three trails and gave them a shot.  Here's the on-property trail, starting at the golf course.  It was too muddy to continue, but lovely nonetheless. Second, we headed for Batiquitos Lagoon .  Apparently, all Darrell and I ever do near this lagoon is drive by it on the 5 Freeway.  We never knew! The lagoon was dredged in 1994, with some huge number of hundreds of tons of silt and garbage, such as tires, being removed. Restoration has been underway since then.  It warms our hearts to learn of efforts that attempt to fix past errors and work toward  coexistence of human life alongside California's fragile coastal ecosystems. Next, we headed to the Carlsbad seawall.   We took our victory lap in Carlsbad Village. Walking day was a great day.  We look forward to non-walking day, tomorrow. Happy Hump Day, Team Day!
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Surprise Sunshine

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Brain cancer is...  ...surprised by some blue sky today. Our big accomplishment today was a walk.  Based on predictions, we thought we were in for a completely rainy week, but--surprise!--sunshine this morning!   We were also surprised that we happened upon the Flower fields , above.  Opening day is March 1, apparently, so those flowers better get busy. It's back to stormy now.  We love our fireplace. Happy 26th Birthday, Zachary John! We love you.  We are proud of you.  We are so grateful to have you in our lives!  We hope that Year 27 brings everything you hope for. 
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Acclimating

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Brain cancer is.... ....acclimating. We had a great Monday, acclimating to vacation.
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