Tuesday

Hikes and walks have been absolutely beastly as of late.  High temps, higher humidity.  We went for a hike the other day and saw this cool spider web:

I love to learn things, and I've learned something about spider webs.  Apparently, spider webs are spun between 5' and 5'10" off the ground.  I know this because I'm 5'10" and I find all the spider webs with my face.  It's impossible to see the stupid things and I walk right into them.  I always feel bad because the poor fellers worked really hard on those.  I don't want to tear them up so if they could put their webs just a little higher we'd all be happy.

I'm trying to cut down on artificial sweetener and diet sodas.  I've limited myself to one a day, and so far I'm going pretty good.  My new thing is lemon water with natural sweetener.  I don't like anything sour so it's really just water with a tiny hint of lemon.  Lemon is supposed to be good for you, all kinds of benefits.  This is how I spent my morning:

An absolute must for hiking---Injinji socks.  They're toe socks, which is a little weird, I admit.  Some of my toes rub together and I get terrible blisters.  These socks are a godsend.  They're wool but they're not too hot and, best of all, my toes don't rub together.  They're kind of pricey, which is the only downside.  Fifteen dollars a pair, but well worth it.

I was folding laundry this morning and the cats were "helping", as they always do.  I was playing with them and I threw a sock at Fats.  He clapped his paws together and caught my sock in midair.  I cheered for him and was thinking "Yo!  My cat's a genius, yo!!!"  So I threw another sock at him and this time it landed right across his eyes like a blindfold.  He made absolutely no attempt to catch it or even knock it off of his face.  So, I guess he's not a genius.  Just a bog standard cat:)