A Lovely Day for a Walk

About 3:00pm this afternoon I went out for my afternoon walk/run.  I had on shorts and a tee shirt - the first day of the year I've been able to do that.  It was in the mid 60s and beautiful.

As I was walking down Caldart towards Hostmark I looked to my left at the Olympics.  They were as clear as could be.  Snow covered and lovely.  The Brothers and Mount Constance just shining in the sun.  And to make it even better there was an eagle just soaring overhead.

So how could I resist not putting out a little extra effort.  For the month of April I've tried to get outside everyday and I've done so except for 3 days.  Today I added in 4 - 2 minute "bursts" of running.  It felt good...

Music Friday - Wild Billy's Circus Story (Bruce Springsteen)

"...And the man-beast lies in his cage sniffing popcorn
Yeah, the midget licks his fingers and suffers Missy Bimbo's scorn
The circus town's been born"

Books Read - 2012

• The Prodigal Spy - Joseph Kanon
• Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Cutis - Timothy Egan
• Canada - Richard Ford
• Los Alamos - Joseph Kanon
• Mission to Paris - Alan Furst
• Istanbul Passage - Joseph Kanon
• Murder in the Sentier - Cara Black
• The Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson
• Mexico Set - Len Deighton
• The Things They Carried - Tim Cahill
• Italian Shoes - Henning Mankell
• Berlin Game - Len Deighton
• The Dirty Life - Kristin Kimball
• Blood,Bones and Butter - Gabrielle Hamilton
• I Am Not Sidney Portier - Percival Everett
• The Drop - Michael Connelly
• American Spy - Olen Steinhauer
• XPD - Len Deighton
• Assumption - Percival Everett
• The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
• An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
• Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
• The Doorbell Rang - Rex Stout
• Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson

Happy Thanksgiving

"...Oh he was little, he was wirey, and he was lots of fun
He was rocky as Ozark dirt that he come from..."

Music Friday - Amarillo by Morning (George Strait)

"I'll be looking for eight
When they pull that gate
And I hope that judge ain't blind..."

Music Friday - Islands in the Stream (Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers)

"...sail away with me
to another world..."

Books Read - 2011

• Salt River - James Sallis
• The Cut - George Pelecanos
• Cripple Creek - James Sallis
• The Ones You Do - Daniel Woodrell
• Muscle for the Wing - Daniel Woodrell
• Under the Bright Lights - Daniel Woodrell
• Cypress Grove - James Sallis
• Victory Square - Olen Steinhauer
• An Empty Death: A Thriller - Laura Wilson
• Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace
• A Prayer For the City - Buzz Bissinger
• 1861: The Civil War Awakening - Adam Goodheart
• The Anarchist's Tool Chest - Christopjer Schwarz
• Liberation Movements - Olen Steinhauer
• Night Swimming - Pete Fromm
• A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
• 36 Yalta Boulevard - Olen Steinhauer
• Beaten,Seared, Sauced - Jonathan Dixon
• Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
• The Confession - Olen Steinhauer
• Rabbit at Rest - John Updike
• The Bridge of Sighs - Olen Steinhauer
• Rabbit Is Rich - John Updike
• The Making of a Chef - Michael Ruhlman
• Innocent Monster - Reed Farrel Coleman