Rest, run, visit & cherries

I decided that my body needed a day to rest, so I slept until I woke up - I slept for 12 hours solid!

I got up, talked with Linda for a bit and then we had a visit from a long-time, close buddy (Tomas Babiak). He’s been away studying in the Czech Republic, so it was nice to catch up with him. He stayed for a few hours after which I decided that I needed to take a run.

I took my longest run in quite some time. I was out for over an hour - I have no idea how many kilometers I covered, but I will measure it in the next day or so.

I’m in a battle with fat! I put on about 10 pounds or more on my travels in January-March and have been complaining about it ever since. I decided that it was do or die and have been slowly, yet steadily, losing some fat around the waist.

After my run, I went into the back yard to check on the cherry tree. It’s not doing all that well because the pear tree is so big that it’s shading the cherry tree. In spite of that, there are some cherries and delicious ones at that. These are the sour cherries that are great for pie! I must have eaten a few dozen - all that I could reach from the ground that were ripe ended up in my stomach.

Afterwards, we (Linda, Nathan & I) played a game of Monopoly in which Linda thoroughly kicked our bankrupted behinds!

What a great day off.