Mile 42 through 46, 957 to Egypt Hollow

This morning I went to the gym with my Mom!!! I was so happy that she was with me! I joined Curves because of her glowing reports on their program. She has done very well with her progress, and I am happy to share in that success with her. She has more to celebrate, though, than I do. She is only 3 weeks out from having a total knee replacement, and I had been encouraging her to make her move back to Curves sometime before I headed back to Texas, and today was the day. She had called her doctor and cleared it with them under the understanding that she would listen to her body and only do what felt comfortable to do. She did fantastic! After the gym, she and I went grocery shopping and then came home.

  I stayed home for several hours, relaxing off and on and working on food preparations. In the evening, I decided....Now or Never Time! I need to take a walk. I wanted it to be an extra long walk since I didn't walk much yesterday. It wasn't as much as I probably should have done, but it was 5.2 miles (I rounded it down to 5 for the purpose of my 80 mile goal.) I decided to walk from my house to my in-laws'. According to my navigation app, it is indeed 5.2 miles. 

I need to start remembering to visit the potty each day before I walk. I am having wayyyy too many confrontations with nature calling and have done 5 zillion reps of Kegels. Just sayin'. Sorry if TMI 

 There's not much to see as I go down Route 957, just more beautiful countryside! I crossed Route 62 and found myself at Pine Grove Cemetery. That is where my grandparents are resting, Grandpa and Grandma Ferry. I wasn't sure where their marker was, so I called my Dad, and he told me where to look. Thank goodness, I found it. I stayed there for a few minutes paying my respects and cleaning off the marker, and then I headed back to the road. 

I can't even imagine how old this tree must be.  I put my water bottle there for perspective.  It's huge.

I stopped to pick some blackberries that were growing alongside the road.

Good ole' Larimer Park.  It's always been a nice playground.

The Russell post office.

This bridge crosses the Conewango which is the creek we canoed the other day.

This is a nasty blind curve on the way to Ed's parents.

The beginning of Egypt Hollow.

Can you tell I love scenes of forested streams?  Love them!

Ed used to walk to this farm to get milk for his family.

After getting to my brother-in-law's house and having discussions about walking and hiking, he lent me this book.  Tomorrow my sister-in-law will be hitting one of these trails.

 Total steps today: 17,506<-------Good job!