About Linda Schaub
This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
Linda Schaub
WALKIN', WRITIN', WIT & WHIMSY 
I can see how those mallards would be a great motivating example for you!
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Ha ha – sometimes I think those mallards can waddle faster than I can walk! Especially when they see me coming with the camera!
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🙂
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I love ducks. Beautiful and with an attitude!
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Yes, they do have spunk (along with the famous orange feet)!
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Movin’ and groovin’! 😀 Hope you make it. 👌
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Well Debbie, if we have no funky weather, like snow and ice, or lots of rain, I may recoup my miles lost this Summer from missed walks, but as of now, I will not make my yearly goal. I’ve walked more regularly lately – it’s still been hot, but not until late in the day (thankfully). Yes, fingers crossed!
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Makes me wonder how many steps a duck takes in a given day. I’m guessing some animals easily eclipse 10,000.
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Dave, after I read your comment, I Googled to see if there was an estimate of what ducks COULD do, but couldn’t find an answer. I imagine they could walk that many steps or more as you say. I saw a series of still shots today on a nature site I follow where a coyote and a doe were playing tag. They chased one another and stopped and looked at each other a few times. It had a happy ending (thankfully) as the coyote just walked away, but boy could that deer run and so gracefully!
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lol!
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It’s a struggle I tell you – maybe not for her though. The answer might be that I need orange sneakers. 🙂
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I hope it has cooled down there some. I know that makes walking a lot more enjoyable.
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Rebecca, today we only got to 67 degrees – it was glorious! But that just one day and we’ve been in the mid-80s and more 80s starting tomorrow and through the weekend. However, the mornings have been cool and comfortable, so that’s been a blessing to walk again. If it stayed like this the rest of the year, I might make my goal.
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It sounds like your temperatures are similar to ours. I do love the cooler and less humid mornings. I’m rooting for you to make your goal.
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Thank you Rebecca – I just watched the weather report and a 20+ degree drop in temps starting Wednesday sounds pretty good to me. I am going to try my darnedest to make my goal!
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Just gotta keep putting one foot in front of the other.
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Yes – I may have to make a more-realistic goal going forward. It was not me, but weather-related this year that kept me from walking. I also do errands etc. in the morning, but try to do all of them in one day, to not waste a walking day.
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So cute, Linda! Should there be a word limit in these post titles? 🤣😆
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So Cute!
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Thanks Ruth! This mallard was walking as fast as I was!
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Look at those orange feet! You will make your steps when you leave to get away from the barking dog!
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Those big orange feet make that duck go fast – we need to set up a race to see who does better!
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Mi9ss Linda…………………………….”Who said Walkin was easy??”
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Ann Marie – Not you and me after this long, hot Summer which has stretched into Fall! I know I will whine about the snow when it gets here, but ….
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Hi Linda, you really come up with GREAT titles – and the one for this Wednesday photo post gave me a pep to my step! (or a pop in the bop)
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Thank you Yvette! I try to make them funny – this Mallard was off to the races with those big orange feet! 🙂
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🙂
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Keep on duckin’! 🙂
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The Mallard threatens to overtake me with those big orange feet! 🙂
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Hopefully we will have good weather until Christmas and you can meet your goal.
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Yes, I have been walking more, despite this heat – we got to 86F today, but the mornings are cooler now and I never walk in the afternoon unless it is late Fall/Winter. Had the mornings been cooler (like more normal Summers), I’d have walked more. I still don’t think I’ll meet my goal, even if we have no snow/ice that will impede walking. I might have to settle for a lower goal going forward. Sigh.
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Even a lower goal is okay. You can’t control the weather. I’m watching the Blue Jays game – the one yesterday was so exciting – they won 10 -1 and todays is good too. I had to water today and it was so hot in the sun.
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That is true too Joni. I would have walked had it been cooler in the mornings. I used to go to the store and walk on the really hot days, but I was not keen on doing that either as I usually park fairly far away so no one hits the car and many mornings it was already so hot and humid, so that idea held no appeal. I left the house today at 8:30 as I wanted to walk and take photos for my “Walktober” post. I went to three different parks last Friday looking for colorful leaves – nothing yet in any of them, so I went to Heritage Park today to get some harvest and Halloween pics at the Botanical Gardens instead. It was pretty and they were setting up for a wedding, but the temps were already 77F when I left the park at 11:00 a.m. Ridiculous! I watered too when I got home, but tomorrow I’d going to use the sprinkler all the way around the front/back yards as they say we will have rain late tomorrow and an inch of rain on Tuesday, so I want a good soaking beforehand. At least it will be 20+ degrees cooler on Wednesday! The Tigers got into the playoffs and game #1 was last night. Lots of sports things going on right now with our teams.
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the Jay won again last night, so they just have to win one more to beat the Yankees. I wonder if they will end up facing off against the Tigers?
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Your Jays are on a roll for sure! That would be something if they played the Tigers! The Jays did well last year in the post-season as well. At least there is no jet lag from time differences if those two teams played each other – the Tigers played Seattle for the first two games and are back in Detroit for the next two games (starting tomorrow) and there was a three-hour time difference.
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