October is a bit of a blur. Why? Because of COVID and a life that has to keep moving forward despite COVID.
That’s right: After three years of avoiding it, both Kelly and I came down with COVID. It meant four days of terrible sinus ick and four weeks of low energy and mental fog. Do not recommend. I do, however, recommend the nursing services of Glory, Jasper and Oliver.
We felt well enough to sit in the backyard and enjoy perfect skies for the annual eclipse.
We held our first-ever mid-season running club potluck. Tons of fun. We probably will do this again.
Glory won the Cutest Dog in Dallas contest (of course she did) and appeared for a month on a billboard near Northpark Mall.
Our Executive Team took half a day for team building. Super fun!!
Steve and I spoke to Leadership Plano class 40 about communications and media relations in the city.
While I held down the running club fort, Kelly ran a marathon in Farmersville, Texas. We realized earlier this year that if we added just four extra marathons to his schedule, his 100th marathon would happen at his 50th state race.
Our second group of neighborhood menaces started making trouble: A mama bobcat and her four unruly teenagers. Glory was shocked when one ran across our fence while we were all in the backyard one weekend.
Nearly every running season we have one rain run. Every few years it is a memorable one. 2023 was that year. The predicted “drizzle” was a constant rain and the flooding was intense. I made an IRC badge for everyone who survived it.
