It's Not The Heat...
Jun. 1st, 2023 07:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_ravenDown the road, we have a neighbor working on some property he bought a few years back and is slowly building on as money allows. The family lives in Jacksonville, but he's originally from New York. Fox and I were both curious about what was being done, and Fox wandered around back there pretty extensively. I started to ... but left when I started noticing the trail cameras. Turns out the guy DID see us on his cameras, but when we spoke to him in person he was quite nice about the whole thing.
We'd come back from a run, and he was asking about biking in the area. Turns out he has a knee injury that prevents him running, so he bikes to keep in shape. He ran track in high school in upstate NY, and mentioned his track team used to do cross country runs from their school ... and the turnaround point was the front gate of Yoko Ono's farm.
I guess Yoko is upstate New York's six degrees of Dolly Parton. Where I'm from you are either related to the Partons, a good enough friend of the family to be allowed on their property (which is where my family fell, we used to go out there sometimes when I was really small and Mom says I spent most of my time chasing the Guinea fowl because I wanted to pet them), a general friend of the family, someone who watched Dolly perform early on Cas Walker's show, etc.
Anyway, this guy has decided that Fox and I are all right, because he occasionally texts Fox stills from his trail cams wanting to know who some of these people are. In a few cases we both had no clue, but one is a kid from next door who was probably out looking for his dog. The dog escapes at any given opportunity and I don't complain about it much here because it's a pug. Aside from being very unfortunate-looking it's not much of a bother. It looks like God took a normal dog and punched it in the face.
Oh man. It's already 71 out there. I need to go run. The humidity isn't too bad yet, but we're coming up on the worst of summer, when the lows at night barely get below 80. While it is a Suck-a-palooza out there, it's also kind of fun come autumn at RunDisney to listen to people from Up North complain about how hot it is, while Fox and I were just saying, "Wow, it got nice and cool this weekend! Only in the 60s? This is great." LOL
We'd come back from a run, and he was asking about biking in the area. Turns out he has a knee injury that prevents him running, so he bikes to keep in shape. He ran track in high school in upstate NY, and mentioned his track team used to do cross country runs from their school ... and the turnaround point was the front gate of Yoko Ono's farm.
I guess Yoko is upstate New York's six degrees of Dolly Parton. Where I'm from you are either related to the Partons, a good enough friend of the family to be allowed on their property (which is where my family fell, we used to go out there sometimes when I was really small and Mom says I spent most of my time chasing the Guinea fowl because I wanted to pet them), a general friend of the family, someone who watched Dolly perform early on Cas Walker's show, etc.
Anyway, this guy has decided that Fox and I are all right, because he occasionally texts Fox stills from his trail cams wanting to know who some of these people are. In a few cases we both had no clue, but one is a kid from next door who was probably out looking for his dog. The dog escapes at any given opportunity and I don't complain about it much here because it's a pug. Aside from being very unfortunate-looking it's not much of a bother. It looks like God took a normal dog and punched it in the face.
Oh man. It's already 71 out there. I need to go run. The humidity isn't too bad yet, but we're coming up on the worst of summer, when the lows at night barely get below 80. While it is a Suck-a-palooza out there, it's also kind of fun come autumn at RunDisney to listen to people from Up North complain about how hot it is, while Fox and I were just saying, "Wow, it got nice and cool this weekend! Only in the 60s? This is great." LOL
