Salt Lake City
Our second trip to visit Spaulding and Molly. We were able to sandwich ourselves into their hectic schedules since I knew this weekend they wouldn’t be doing long distance training runs. Their marathon is next weekend; this would be taper week. Because our living area is on the basement level, and the rest of the house is up a flight of stairs, I was extremely cognizant of making as few trips up and down as possible. No random runs up or down for a forgotten item. Actually, no runs at all. Each stair was a right foot, then left foot process. Would that there were handrails. We mostly hung out at home. Saturday, Spaulding and Grant made beer on Saturday while Mollie had to go into work to lead a training session for math teachers. Later, the three of them worked on the terraced backyard, getting the drip system configured for the vegetables Molly planted. Granddog Emma and I supervised. I also identified, with the help of the Merlin sound app, spotted towhees, western c...