Heavy Machinery in Everyday Ramblings

So here is “my” beloved track a few days ago. The field in the middle is being replaced with artificial turf and they started tearing up the track itself yesterday. Rolls and shreds of it are piled in bunches around the area. There is a lot of heavy machinery and big two container dump trucks with fast looking dogs painted on the side are moving out filled with dirt.

They are laying drainage piping in the center. I’ll see if I can find a historic picture of the area that I can share. It was a gulch with a stream running through it naturally. It was clear-cut and a muddy cruddy mess with shacks for Italian workers where I took the picture. There was an actual railroad off in the distance there on the other side of the gulch.

At the turn of the century the locals decided to fill the area with debris and trash and put in a rough playing field for the local boys and men to keep them busy and out of trouble. That is the last century, not this one. So the field in some form or another has been there about 100 years.

Now the workmen wear baseball caps and t-shirts back then they wore felted hats and suspenders and were a lot thinner even though I suspect the amount of alcohol consumption is similar. :) They have a lot more heavy equipment now. A lot.

I am seeing displaced track users around the neighborhood doing street running and shooting hoops at semi-public basketball hoops.

The scrub jays were yelling at me for their morning supply of peanuts that I put out as reality TV for the cats so I had to stop typing there for a moment and take care of that. What is funny is that in the past few months on the days when I have been out on the track I have seen peanut shells strewn around.

So it is not just the humans whose track life is in hiatus now…

I taught a class last night on engaging and activating the deep musculature in the pelvis and abdominals and I am feeling it this morning. Of course I had to prep for the class so I basically did the practice twice but I feel it so I am sure my students are too.

Everybody got very quiet…

I look forward to getting better at teaching that material.

This afternoon I am having my first bone density scan. And then I am going up to Mrs. Yacht Club’s house for drinks with S. I haven’t been there before. It will be lovely and relaxing.

On Sunday I met S at church and we went back to her place and got Frida (the poodle) and then went for an hour long stair walk and afterwards hung out in her garden with the finches and hummingbirds and solved the world’s problems. It was so nice.

But now I need to get ready to go to a meeting and then hike up to the work farmer’s market for flowers…

Last updated August 16, 2016