adventuredog somebody made a big wet mess on this sidewalk, guys! #reflection

8r4dsfeets How can you spot a spoiled dog? Check out her #shopping basket!

8r4d I guess the kid was feeling a bit nostalgic when she picked out a #fathersday gift for me this year. When she was younger I bought us matching #tshirts off the internet of this “velociraptor riding a velocipede” which we both thought was hilarious at the time. Still do, but those shirts wore out and disappeared from our wardrobes a half dozen years ago. Well, she hunted down new ones for me and herself so that we could once again have matching shirts. A selfie with both of us, tho, was pushing it a little too far.

8r4d On this particular #sundayrunday the skies opened and we found ourselves #running 19k in the various waves of #rain and fluid #weather conditions as we wove thru the creek and looped along the trails. You can’t save your training for fair weather days or else you’d be hard pressed to find any days to train at all, and while we can run inside when the air is smoky (dangerously so) rain , as they say, is best avoided only when one is made of pure sugar and sweetness, a description that I’d not say applies to myself.

8r4dsfeets In the parking lot, as usual, for a #sundayrunday but the spitting rain was just a prelude to the downpour we’d eventually encounter about half way thru our #running adventure.

castironguy Almost every week for the last decade we make family #breakfast on #saturday mornings. Usually that takes the form of my epic chocolate chip #pancakes with all the fixings. But routinely we switch it up and alternate in either waffles or — in the case of today— #french #crepes (which I learned to cook while #volunteering at the Heritage Festival. It all adds up to deliciousness no matter how you do the math

castironguy Calling our #garden this season “the best one in years” is a low, low bar, but even so the investment we made to turn our backyard dirt patch into a raised bed is turning out to be a positive win. The slightly better access to putting the weeds in arms-reach has turned out to have a massive effect on the overall health of the garden itself. So it looks better, grows better, and is already producing!

pixelazy Random functional or artistic objects in public places to me always make those places feel lived in and loved. Whole.

8r4d What a view!

8r4d On another #running adventure #downtown for that whole downtown marketing campaign for work, five of us explored some of the streets and trails and tackled that nutty hill on 105th street with only a bit of walking. #runcrew

castironguy On my own for dinner I opted for some Indian #spice and in the middle of checking a few errands off my to do list stopped at Tiffin. They always warn me that my choice of entree is #spicy and I always tell them that “yup I know that’s what I always get!” At which point I think I stop being some dope ordering boring butter chicken and start being dude digging the hardcore selections from the menu. There’s always a vibe check that occurs around this point and it always tilts in my favour. #diningout

8r4dsfeets It has rained enough today to finally say it has rained good and proper and maybe even enough to make a difference. The air still smells of #firesmoke tho which just goes to show that as much as it has rained it probably hasn’t rained enough-enough. #rain #weather