Twice in a row!

Getting to watch Firefly motivated me to walk again today.  One hour at 3.5 mph. Yay me!

For those who don't know, "Firefly" is a sci-fi TV show, no longer on the air, but available as a package from I-Tunes and lots of other providers no doubt.  It has a sort of wild-west grittiness as the captain and crew of the firefly flit  from planet to planet, smuggling, thieving and trying to find legitimate jobs to keep the ship up and flying.  They are rogues and rascals, but not bad people, and the interactions of the crew and passengers are fascinating.   It's a 9 person cast, and I'm totally hooked.

In fact, I'm looking forward to walking again tomorrow.

It's half past September, and summer lingers on.  There are forest fires in the area, so the air has a smokey, golden tinge. The neighborhood is full of low-hanging fruit and it's not actually stealing if the pear just drops into your hand, is it?  Sun-warmed plums, soft and succulent, are begging to be liberated.  The hazlenut trees are decked with squirrels, and crows are molting flight feathers all over the place.  After the wettest, coldest June on record, we have gone 52 days without measurable precipitation.  Boy, are we gonna get it this winter!

My 12 year-old Ford Taurus is starting to make unhappy noises.  Noises that whisper to me of serpentine belts and other expensive parts that take hours to replace.  DH is thinking I ought to get a new car, rather than pour more money into the old one.  I'm thinking - maybe a Prius.  What do you think?