Yup. The equivalent of 100 flights of stairs today.

In other news, my feet are kinda sore…

Happy Towel Day!

I think I’m just going to wait until next week to do a photo scavenger hunt, and maybe I’ll move it to Friday, to make it easier for people.

In the mean-time, how’re things with you?

Found anything interesting recently you think I’d like?

The obligatory picture with the Mountaineer

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Some late spring cleaning, and a day where I’m too tired to go out and do anything despite how pretty it is outside.

Free to a good home:

Amazon Basics Camera Backpack. It’s perfectly fine for what it is, but what I finally decided I wanted was a backpack that would hold my camera AND laptop AND didn’t look like a camera back that screamed “POSSIBLE EXPENSIVE STUFF HERE! STEAL ME!”

I instead went with something like this (but not this, mine is a drawstring not a zipper) and a regular laptop backpack–one that I can easily lock for travel and leaving in a hotel room–which I absolutely adore. But of course all that was a hell of a lot more expensive than this plain camera backpack.

Also free to a good home, some books:
Bread Machine baking book, which we don’t need because we got rid of the bread machine years ago.
Bright Young Things (hardback); I can’t get into it, but I somehow ALSO have the ebook version, so I really don’t need the hardback.
A Beautiful Blue Death – Grandmom really liked this series. I found it… meh.
Growing at the Speed of Life: A Year in the Life of My First Kitchen Garden – A gift I have no interest in reading

Anyone interested? Friends and family will be given to preference. Because I can.

Oh, if you click on any of those links and then go buy something after, (same as for my book blog) I get pennies from Amazon. Hint. Hint.

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I… I have no words…

Denver Museum of Nature and Science

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You know how when you go to the automatic car wash, you often get a “pre-soak” where they drip soapy water on your car and let it soak in for about 20 seconds?

That pre-soak lead me to wonder–would an automatic car wash get your car cleaner if you went when it was raining. If a pre soak does anything at all, then I would think that your car already being wet from the rain would help soak the grime off.

Any argument as to why this would not be so?

These are… meh. But it was a lovely day for walking and looking for them yesterday.

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These are for Anne, who had grave concerns about the hopscotch pictures.

That really isn’t anywhere accessible to young, gullible kids.

I forgot I’d taken these pictures a couple weeks ago.

We were walking across the Pleasant Street Bridge when I noticed chalk marks on the wall over to the left.

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Driving home, we just barely noticed a man on a scooter who had toppled trying to navigate the horrible sidewalks and hills on University Avenue. It was dark, the intersection was a steep hill, and his scooter was blue, so I saw the reflector in my headlights more than anything else.

We stopped, Michael ran to make sure he wasn’t hurt, and I grabbed a flashlight from the trunk. The man was trying to sit up, his cart tipped sideways, and the contents of the basket on the front of his scooter strewn around his cart.

After getting him into a sitting position, we started picking up the scattered papers and various grocery items–his bananas and yogurt didn’t seem too much the worse for wear.

While we were picking things up, a taxi pulled partway into the intersection. The driver said something that I couldn’t hear, so I ran over.

The driver, a man probably in his fifties, leaned out his window.

“Am I clear to get past?”
“Yeah. You’re fine.”

After we got all his belongings picked up, Michael started to try and help the man stand, by standing in front and pulling him up by his arms, but the man cried out in pain and I stopped Michael, reminding him of the proper way to help someone up, which I had learned for Grandmom. The two of us together smoothly got him standing, though he was unsteady and I was nervous about letting go of him.

In the meantime, a young couple had stopped, the guy saying he had a truck and we could put the scooter into the bed of the truck so the man could be driven home.

The older gentleman insisted he was fine, so the young man and Michael start trying to get the scooter straightened up and pointing in the right direction.

While they were getting sorted out where the man was going, another young couple stopped, asking what they could do to help. The three guys got the gentleman back on his scooter (he still wasn’t very steady) and up on the road (no sense in trying to get back on the treacherous sidewalk), while I stood in the road with my flashlight to stop traffic.

After a moment, the older gentleman puttered off. Michael and I walked back to the car, and I put the flashlight back in the trunk, taking a deep breath as I closed the trunk. The couple who had pulled off near us, pulled out behind the gentleman, and followed him down the road, keeping cars from zooming up behind him and/or passing him.

Anyone who tells you that young people these days are irresponsible and don’t care about others?

You tell ’em from me they’re full of shit.

Happy Birthday to all those leap year babes out there!

Hope you’re enjoying yourselves, since your birthdays now come less frequently than the Olympics!