Of Bugs and Grass Cutters...

I wanted to log this kind of stuff last year as I was doing my walks but... i didn't.

I found the variety of bugs and birds that I saw at various times of the summer to be amazing.

Bugs: This was the first warm week and i started seeing the little speedy brown spiders on the side walk. As soon as you step in their block they take off for the grass. Of course there are ants. Today it was small black ants and bigger red ants.

Birds: I was reading for most of my walk and forgot to check out the birds today. I know there are robins and doves though.

Some thing I have found with the crew that cuts the grass here. They must have some sort of procedure for what to do when they are cutting near a sidewalk and people are walking on the sidewalk. They all stop at just about the same distance and then when you get a good distance away they start going again... i guess it could just be good judgment but it seems like something more than that.

So they were doing construction on some of the side walk so I had to double back instead of making a loop. I got 2.42 miles at about 3.35 mph.

Ahh... some tidbits from the Cure book. Robert Smith joined the banshees after the banshees had a argument over album signing at a record store. At the bands show later that night the Cure finished there set and a couple Banshee members hadn't shown up. they got the cure to play a couple extra songs (seventeen seconds, which didn't have lyrics yet) and then had the two bands play a couple songs together. later after the banshees couldn't find another bassist, Smith agreed to play with them as long as the Cure stayed as there support band for the tour...