Easter Service

Saturday morning, Rick and I met up with a large TM crew to work clearing a section of the Bradbury/Pineland Connector.  It was lousy weather, but in true TM fashion that didn't put a damper on things.  The work was done with lots of fun and laughter, followed by yummy food and warmth at Edna and Lucy's.  It did, however, leave me with a chill.  So I put off my run till later in the afternoon and only did 6.5 instead of the 10 on "the plan".  That meant I'd run longer today (officially yesterday now).

I was tempted to run the road to get it over with.  Then I read a FB post by James:  "May you all find a special and personal way to enjoy today. I just went for a beautiful 3 hour trail run and it feels like Spring. That was church for me."  I decided I needed to go to church, too.  I was quickly and richly rewarded.  Shame on me for taking a run for granted with the "get it over with" attitude when I had no time constraints.


The best part of the service was the rest of the congregation.  I saw two osprey, was led across the snowmobile bridge by a gray squirrel (thought about Mindy  : ), a mink (he froze when he saw me.  I was still on the bridge and did the same thing.  After a while he went on with his business and disappeared under some brush along the river), a kingfisher, a muskrat, tens of turtles (all plopping into the river at once!  Some were on what, last year, I had dubbed turtle log), and a red tailed hawk that screeched at me several times.  Joy!  I even found more little trails to investigate.  


OK, some silly stuff, too....On our Pineland run, Mindy, Jeremy, and I were talking about running long.  Sorry Jeremy, but I'm telling...He confessed to wanting to be able to run an ultra and still be able to be fine after.  I think he called it "doing a Demer".  After lots of giggling from the girls, he decided to call it "pulling a Demer".  So on my run today, what starts running through my head?  "Do a Demer, run like a Demer..." (sung to the Dr. Pepper tune) "wouldn't you like to do a Demer, too?"  I think I'll try to substitute "pull" in, but the "song" was pretty well stuck for the last 1.5 miles.  So the service had a hymn, of sorts, too.


And I was just going to "get it over with"!