If We Had Only Known

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I would have skipped tennis with hubby this morning if I had only known. As it turned out, we took a very short ride to our son’s house to drop off some of my yummy beets that I made yesterday. Our son invited us to walk in his neighborhood instead of his usual walks here. He even showed us his two Doodles the cat’s pumpkin patches. The nice walk started well, passing familiar homes of the houses my son’s friends grew up in, homes of our friends who also live in Florida, and the home of a doctor friend of ours. A few times our son asked us if were okay walking in the hot sun. After 1 1/2 hours of walking, we wound up in the nature trails that lead through the Land Trust to our house. We hung out by the pond and streams and a dried up little waterfall that I had never been to. Then we finally trekked another 1 1/2 hours uphill in the sun back to his house. Hubs and I had to stop and rest every time we came across the shade of a tree. Our son offered us water and a dip in his pool when we returned to his house, but we declined and threw ourselves into our air conditioned car and drove the couple of minutes home. If we had known about this walk, we would have skipped tennis and rested up in bed much longer or walked on our shady street. We are getting too old for this.