The selfie collection from Friday

 

The five of us, selfie taken by son's long arm Friday night.  "Boo!"

This one was taken by Lacey's mom

And of course, they are each other's "Boo"!

The selfie the kids were setting up turned out very well:

Starting the gratitude list for 2022:

October 10th, Canadian Thanksgiving - day 1:  the warm blankets I crawled out from under, this cool morning.

Today the kids had a new kitchen/dining table delivered, and as you can see, Carl is taking on the role of Maitre d'.

It may be a few days before I get my sleep cycles back 'round to where I like them, after having adjusted to Hawaii race times, and Sunday the Chicago Marathon slammed me right back into Central Daylight Time.

I tracked my brother's friend Christine through her whole 26.2 miles of Chicago.  She was running as a fund raiser for Alzheimer's research.  Alicia had a couple of people to follow as well, a TikTok creator who goes by Mrs. Space Cadet was running for Team Fox (Parkinson's research), and another fellow from NYC who is in an online group she follows.  Since I had the app downloaded, I tracked them, too.

I did not do a very good job of catching them at the finish line, though.  With 40,000 runners on the course, and aging eyes, it's hard to read bibs fast enough to know who you are looking at.  Heck, it was hard in person at Boston to pick out my brother, and I should know his gait, right?

Some of those runners looked in quite a bit of pain as they came across the finish line.  Not that different from the Ironman races I watched on Thursday and Saturday... and these folks "only" did the run part.

Here's hoping we're all remembering to do what it takes to take care of ourselves as the calendar pages keep flipping by!

Life is good.  Spark on!

🔥✨💖