[Yesterday’s run: 6.75 miles]<\/p>\n
I had a big exercise day yesterday.<\/p>\n
In the morning I went to Starkville and ran with the group like I usually do.\u00a0 Bill let me know before the run that he was going to bale his hay that day.\u00a0 I had previously asked if he would let me know when that happened.<\/p>\n
We did our run and it rained on us a little bit, which was not a happy thing because Bill’s hay was mowed and in the field and he didn’t need any rain on it in that condition.\u00a0 There was lightning and thunder too.\u00a0 It was kind of dramatic.\u00a0 I skipped some of the usual lengthening options and did the shortest out-and-back to the first water stop, which got me back to the Starkville Cafe before anyone else.\u00a0 So I rested and drank cold water and waited for the others to come back.\u00a0 Eventually Bill came back too, and reported that he had been hailed on a little bit.\u00a0 Not Bill’s day in the weather department!<\/p>\n
So I went home after the run and did some puttering around at the house.\u00a0 Later I texted with Bill and they were going to go ahead with the hay baling work.\u00a0 He said I could come on over at 5 PM if I wanted to help get it in the barn.<\/p>\n
And I did that.\u00a0 I drove the old truck over, taking the back road through Tibbee, MS (which isn’t much of a place).\u00a0 Bill’s house is on that same road as it approaches Starkville.\u00a0 I pulled up and right away there was a pickup truck pulling a trailer stacked with hay and they told me to jump on, so I did.\u00a0 We got it unloaded in the barn, then went back out.\u00a0 We did that 3 times.\u00a0 I worked until 8 PM when everything was in the barn and done.<\/p>\n
I got a good workout!\u00a0 I’m not able to keep up with the strong young guys.\u00a0 But I was able to lend a hand.\u00a0 And I enjoyed the chance to participate.\u00a0 I did much better than last year.\u00a0 I’m a bit more in shape this year, and it seems I have better arm strength or something, maybe the bales were lighter.<\/p>\n
Of the other people there, a man and his son had just moved to Starkville from Ft. Collins where he had been a church planter.\u00a0 It was nice to talk to him about Colorado.\u00a0 They had lived up in the Stove Prairie area until the fire a few years ago drove them out.\u00a0 After that they were in Ft. Collins.\u00a0 And now they are in Starkville where they minister at the Crosspoint church at the Sportsplex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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