[today’s run: about 7.5 miles (walmart route to first water stop)]
On today’s run I had a good surprise and a bad surprise. The bad surprise was when I showed up at the advertised time (6:00 AM) and everyone had already gone. The regular summer time had been 5:30, but the text I received said 6:00. Group texting is not reliable. Someone probably responded with a correction but left me off of the list.
The good surprise was that I found a nice shiny 10mm wrench by the side of the road.
After the run, the next big event of the day was our Block Party. My neighbor and I had been thinking about this for a couple of months. I sent out invitations. He did the cooking (BBQ). And we had people there from almost every house on our street and from a couple of houses just slightly off of our street (who were relatives and wanted to come).
His BBQ was pretty good stuff. My home-made ice cream was a flop, it never froze (I think I should have hard-frozen some ice blocks instead of using the soft ice from the convenience store. Whatever it was, I’ll have to practice to get it right before I assume it will work next time.) But! someone else brought ice cream cups and I had a half-gallon as plan B. And someone brought a cake! So we had BBQ (ribs, chicken, hot-links, hot dogs, burgers), baked beans, cole slaw, chips, salsa, fruit, cake, ice cream … seems like I am missing something… we had lots of pop, water, sweet tea and some beer. I think we must have had about 20 people there.
