quotidian, and a quick exercise update

We have a visiting rysmiel, but they're over in Seattle for the day, so I took a little while to work out in the building fitness room this morning. Yesterday was hanging out here with rysmiel, cattitude, and roadnotes. Saturday, Cattitude and I had a fun couple of hours wandering around Mercer Slough, where we heard a lot more birds than we saw. There were quite a few blackberry flowers (wild/endemic), lots of blueberry bushes in flower (farmed), and some yellow water lilies (I assume wild). ( the usual boring gym details, for my reference )

I got a text from Emilie about an hour ago, a general "hello and how are you," which is nice. I miss working with her, and I miss that gym, with the equipment I'm used to, including a reasonable amount of balance equipment and sufficient padding on the padded areas, not just a small area of thin carpet.