Life got in the way

In case anyone's looking here--

I started this with high expectations, since Martial Cottle is right around the corner.

Then Stuff Happened.

There was the unexpected bathroom remodel plus lots of other house prep for the changing of the renter; that went on for more than a  couple of weeks.

Then I added a dog to the household, and he's a bit of a handful, makes it challenging to take all 3 dogs on a walk. So I'm either walking all three and managing him, or walking just him and training him, instead of even looking for--let alone picking up--trash or others' poops.

The old dogs and the new yellow dog in the park

Then one of the dogs got sick. Then I got sick. Everyone's pretty much better now, and I need to get moving again.

I have walked through the park with the dogs several times. One day I even picked up:

• Three cigarette butts
• One piece of gum

Since I started this blog, all the grasses and flowers have grown up, which I suspect hides a lot of what I used to easily see along the walks.

And I have taken a few photos; here ya go.

Sunset April 16

After the rain, west side, April 1.

I love using puddles for reflections; brings the sky down to earth!

Morning March 31

Sunset March 26 looking east

Sunset March 19 looking west 

Wednesday Patrol and feelin' good

Can you believe this weather? Forgot to take my camera today, too bad, as there was some work being done on the bed of the Cottle River and other random fun things. Maybe tomorrow if I have time.

Old dog feeling pretty good today, so we covered the whole west side and south side between about 9 and 9:30 this morning, and picked up:

• Cigarette butts: 2
• Water bottle caps: 2
• Dog poops: 5, all of them along the south side, not the west side
• 3 candy wrappers
• 3 pieces of broken glass in random places (so they might be old, just washed clean by the recent rains)
• A dozen other small bits and scraps--cough drop wrapper, crumbled up receipt, another ribbon from the opening ceremonies, crumpled aluminum foil, 2 straws, I don't remember everything

Clearly, someone(s) else are also picking up trash & poop regularly. Thanks again to whomever it is.

But also, since I just heard that there's an estimate of over 600 people every day using the trail, and a majority of them with dogs, this is actually a pretty trivial amount of litter. But, still--come on, folks, scoop the poop! Put those wrappers and bottle caps in your pocket until you reach a trash can!

And, wow, was it a beautiful day to be in the park.