Sunday we met with our friend, Nancy, and went for a six mile hike through Silver Creek Falls Park. The day was pleasant for hiking: walking along the creek beds or in treelined gorges we managed to stay cool and the smoke from various forest fires wasn't so concentrated there.
There are a variety of falls; the water flows over basalt shelves and cuts through differing layers of rock, depending on the rock's hardness. The usual configuration there is a crescent of hard basalt working upstream, with an undercut of softer rock forming a second crescent-shaped cave underneath the fall. Some falls are cascades over basalt, others are trickles filling deep pools. I don't remember every visiting before, which is too bad; there are many interesting falls and the buildings have a CCC and WPA charm reminiscent of the Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood.
The valley has been smokey. Everyone thought last May and June with all the rain that this would not be a huge fire year, but I guess it let a lot of grass grow, and there's been more fuel. Monday and Tuesday the air quality has been certifiably unhealthy and daytime temperatures have been in the nineties. The last few sunrises and sunsets look like some florid seventies poster or else from the planet Tatooine.
The family has gone on a short trip, so the cats and I have been staying inside. I've been alternately cutting out words to get a story to spec, and Monday to Tuesday I threw together a 1000 word short story. I tried a technique of writing the story backward, starting at the end, then going backward scene by scent (actually, just sketching in a paragraph) to the beginning. Then I went forward, fleshing in bits. The story was ready to read (barely in time), and I wish I'd read it aloud a few more times to polish out the rough spots. I expect I can polish it more this week and turn it in next time.
After Wordos, I went to the gym:
25 minutes and 260 cal on the elliptical. 3x12x60lbs on the pec fly. 3x12x80lbs on the lat pulldown. 3x12 Roman Chair curl-ups (I'd been adding in some side curls, but I think they've been bothering my back, so I only did straight curls this time). 3x12x40lbs barbell curls. 2x12x40lbs reverse barbell rows.
After the gym, I re-joined the Wordos at the bar and grill across the street and virtuously had a glass of water.
Sunday we met with our friend, Nancy, and went for a six mile hike through Silver Creek Falls Park. The day was pleasant for hiking: walking along the creek beds or in treelined gorges we managed to stay cool and the smoke from various forest fires wasn't so concentrated there. 
There are a variety of falls; the water flows over basalt shelves and cuts through differing layers of rock, depending on the rock's hardness. The usual configuration there is a crescent of hard basalt working upstream, with an undercut of softer rock forming a second crescent-shaped cave underneath the fall. Some falls are cascades over basalt, others are trickles filling deep pools. I don't remember every visiting before, which is too bad; there are many interesting falls and the buildings have a CCC and WPA charm reminiscent of the Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood. 
The valley has been smokey. Everyone thought last May and June with all the rain that this would not be a huge fire year, but I guess it let a lot of grass grow, and there's been more fuel. Monday and Tuesday the air quality has been certifiably unhealthy and daytime temperatures have been in the nineties. The last few sunrises and sunsets look like some florid seventies poster or else from the planet Tatooine. 
The family has gone on a short trip, so the cats and I have been staying inside. I've been alternately cutting out words to get a story to spec, and Monday to Tuesday I threw together a 1000 word short story. I tried a technique of writing the story backward, starting at the end, then going backward scene by scent (actually, just sketching in a paragraph) to the beginning. Then I went forward, fleshing in bits. The story was ready to read (barely in time), and I wish I'd read it aloud a few more times to polish out the rough spots. I expect I can polish it more this week and turn it in next time.
After Wordos, I went to the gym: 25 minutes and 260 cal on the elliptical. 3x12x60lbs on the pec fly. 3x12x80lbs on the lat pulldown. 3x12 Roman Chair curl-ups (I'd been adding in some side curls, but I think they've been bothering my back, so I only did straight curls this time). 3x12x40lbs barbell curls. 2x12x40lbs reverse barbell rows. 
After the gym, I re-joined the Wordos at the bar and grill across the street and virtuously had a glass of water.
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