Power of suggestion, right? We might get some rain today, so that woudld be quite magnificent. Rest day for me today. Chowder and I will hike in the woods later. He's hit a crazy wild stage in puppydom. Maybe some memory loss, too, since he cannot understand  a single command. For example, 'sit'.  

Oh, running.  Ran 20 yesterday into DC and felt pretty good. Weather was quite accommodating, which helped a lot.

Jamie-- I'll be at the Quince Orchard AS again this year (17 miles or so).

qotd: See anything on a run recently that made you particularly happy?  Mine's small, but there's a house at the end of one of the streets to my winter trails. Went by last week and they've torn up their grass yard and have planted a small forest. All of these houses have large expanses of grass to mow, so someone taking it in the opposite direction made me happy (as a gardener AND a nature lover).

Looks like I'm AT-walker now.  Run on Saturday wasn't great. Sore with landing, but no pain at all walking, so I just walked and enjoyed the scenery.  Not going to be able to run with Sandy tomorrow, and that sucks.  New plan is to walk all week and give it another go on Saturday. Never had a high ankle sprain before, so this is new to me. I've dealt with the typical ankle sprains often, and that's just tape it and go.

QOTD:  Just the colors. Some pretty spectacular reds coming out now.

^ typically burned off areas are good elk habitat- lots of grass and browse comes up in the burns- they’ve definitely used this area, but not recently it appeared

my buddy killed a big bull in this area last year, so not sure what’s up this year

speaking of weather- we’re getting another storm rolling through tomorrow through Thursday- snow with highs in the low 30’s, lows in the teens- that’s pretty chilly for early October!

Warden: That looks like fun. I have committed to planning an elk trip to Colorado next October. It gives me something to look forward to for the next year. I love planning trips and then executing the plan.

Ran 2.5 this morning. I think the legs have come back; I have been running sluggishly recently. I think I may have just been a little run down from work, lack of sleep, and a decent bit of fast running. I rested pretty good this weekend and feel like a new person.

QOTD: I have been seeing quite a number of young turkeys and a whole lot of deer. I'll get to start slinging lead on October 26th because the state enacted a special "Honorably Discharged Veteran's Hunt" that coincides with the youth hunt. These deer better look out between 10/26 and 11/1.

Not a whole lot to report here on the running front. We did have a gorgeous fall day on Saturday and I took the dogs out to French Creek where I met Angus and Rebel and we had a nice but slow run/hike of 5-6 miles on the 6 penny and lenape trails. Pretty quiet on the 6 penny trail but the other trail was packed with day hikers (it connects the lake and campground) and it was quite the scene with all the dogs. The Lady was a crackup. She would stop at each group and wait to be petted. One couple did not pet here and she just kept standing there waiting. A few times she even walked back to groups to get more pets. Pretty funny. Baker was being sort of a pain. He is a bit of a maniac/puller on woodsy trail runs.

Not too much yesterday. Just a few rainy miles in the neighborhood.

We did get a lot done in the yard this weekend. We are getting ready to redo a section in the back 40 and this weekend cleared out all the weeds and some older perennials that had taken over. We planted a unique pine tree that we picked up over the summer (it's about 8 feet right now, will grow to 25-30') in the cleaned up bed and a few mums for some late fall color. Next step is to move and replant some large hastas that are too close to the treeline into this bed. That will be next weekend's task.

Oh, we had a big scene in our quiet little cul-de-sac last night. I woke up from a nap about 7pm and the wife told me there were cop cars out front looking at a parked car on our street. I noticed the car earlier in the morning and figured the neighbors across the street had overnight company. Not too many people park cars regularly on our street. Of course I was nosy and took the dogs out for a walk so I could get the scoop. The policeman told me that the car had been stolen the day before and dumped in our neighborhood. Sort of strange and perplexing how our little cul-de-sac was chosen as a dumping ground by the car thieves?! The car was missing it's plates and had a damaged window so I guess I should look closer at parked cars from now on.

QOTD: Watching the Lady interact with hikers puts a smile on my face. It's like she is an official park greeter. Pet and admire me please or I am not budging. She is so calm and gentle. The polar opposite of Baker right now. Baker is friendly but not calm and too excitable still.

Took a rest day, ran 11 on Sunday

Dr Jamie, no race reports all I have is a so called smart phone tto tap things out on and I’m just plain lazy.

but my 24 hour race lasted me 22.5 hours which put me at 83 miles. Good enough for 3rd place

Gatsby, Mr Jangles is a Chesapeake bay retriever.  Very loyal dog, but when he gets something in his mind he is very headstrong about it.

Spent Sunday and Monday out and about with a bow in my hand and a couple of tags in my pocket.  No action , but I got to bring ML to see a beautiful piece of private land along the middle fork of the Eel River.

These deer were in no danger from us.  Fawns looked big and healthy.