Laid Back Sunday

We were in no hurry to get up this morning, and it was 8 a.m. before we did. I skipped a workout on the treadmill to give my muscles a day of rest.


Mother came over about 9:30 a.m., and we went for a walk at the college lake. On the parking lot, a middle-aged man had his leg hiked up on the back of his car, stretching before walking. A few minutes later, the young Hispanic man we'd seen yesterday arrived with his preschool boy, and toddler in a stroller. Today, the boy was riding a bicycle with training wheels and wearing a crash helmet.


The temperature is predicted to get into the 80s today, but it was in the low 70s this morning with very little humidity, making for ideal strolling weather.


As for wildlife, a duck was busy grooming its breast, pulling feathers out as it worked. The ducks are obviously in the process of spring molting, replacing old, worn, feathers with new ones, because white feathers dotted the bank around the lake.


We saw two more cottonmouth snakes this morning. Hubbie asked how we knew one of the pair wasn't the same one we saw yesterday. I told him that these two were smaller snakes, while the one we saw yesterday was quite large. The two today weaved their way among the grasses growing near the bank, holding their slant-eyed heads out of the water. The cottonmouths are convincing evidence that this lake is not a place to go swimming.


As we were leaving, a carload of young people drove onto the parking lot, and a young woman hopped out and placed something on the lawn under a tree. When they left, I went to inspect. It was a turtle. I decided the critter needed to be closer to the water, so I took it down to the bank, where it could join a number of other turtles sunning on a log.


Trying a new, very tasty, low-sodium barbecued pork chop recipe, listening to romantic Rod Stewart and Michael Bolton CDs, reading the Sunday newspaper, and watching evening TV, rounded out a perfect do-nothing-of-importance day.