Befuddled and fractious with our weather woes again. Yesterday’s drippy morning kept me on the inside looking out. This morning I listened to meteorologists on two different stations and both predicted foul weather was afoot – the first round was destined for mid-day and then we would get smacked down a second time in the late afternoon/early evening. We never did have the storm yesterday (not that I am complaining) and I’m starting to second-guess these trusty weathermen – perhaps we have to go back to licking our finger and sticking it in the air or opening the window and looking up at the sky to figure out the day’s weather events. Hmmmmmm.

At any rate, there was no rain or funky weather at 7:45 a.m. so I ventured out to attempt to eke out a short walk and also take the buggy for a spin since it had been a week since it was out. I figured I’d do some errands by car, and then park the car at the pet shop, my last errand, and get a couple of miles walked as well. At the church parking lot, the sky looked a tad dark; I went to light candles and when I came back out five minutes later, the sky was very dark and menacing looking. Scaredy-cat that I am, I decided to drive right home. In that short, 3/4s of a mile trip, the sky darkened like nighttime and the street lights came on. A few industrial-sized raindrops plopped on my windshield. Lightning flashes were streaking the sky like a Ben Franklin electricity experiment. My sensor lamp in the front yard also was lit up when I arrived home. I got the car parked, walked out of the garage and unbelievably, in the space of a minute’s time, the sky totally lightened up and the sun came out. What this a figment of my imagination? Very bizarre weather!! It looked safe enough, so I did walk to the pet shop anyway – my order was not in yet and suddenly it was very hot and humid and I was sorry I had made the detour and not just gone in the house. Well, I got a two-mile walk in anyway.

As I write this post, it is rumbling outside and I will shut down my computer momentarily. The car got a run and so it’s good for another week at least. The other day I quipped to my e-friend Evelyn, who lives in Virginia and I’ve never met personally, that I bet I could get more miles walked than driven in the year 2013 at the rate I’m going. She laughed at that statement, but I glanced at my odometer this morning, versus the January 1st OnStar report, then tallied up the daily miles from my walking chart and did the math:

2,219 miles on car as of 01/01/13
2484 miles on car as of 08/07/13

265.00 miles on car in 2013 as of 08/07/13
183.50 miles for Linda in 2013 as of 08/07/13

Is this doable? Well, we’re not quite neck-in-neck, but I’ve decided it might be a fun new goal to set for myself. Wish me luck!