Someone gave me a bicycle the other day, and I decided to get up early this morning to ride it. It had to be early, or it would be too hot, right? Well, I woke up at 5:30, and decided to sleep just a few minutes longer, but I fell into this strange half-awake, half-asleep state where I thought I was getting up and trying to find my sweat pants over and over, but it was really just a dream.

This went on until after seven, when I finally woke up enough to realize what was happening. I got up and left the house at 7:30. I rode uphill to the bottom of a trail, and walked up the mountain just a little ways. We have bright yellow 5 inch spiders that build huge sticky webs, and lots of them. After nearly getting stuck up by the 6th web, I decided that was enough exercise and turned back.

Ah, I had worked out royally, or so I thought, until I got home and realized I’d been gone just under half an hour! Oh, well, at least I started establishing a pattern of getting up to go exercise. I’ll try harder tomorrow.

More about coffee in the next blog.