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Tonight as I was walking up the street, I saw two animals coming down the sidewalk and I thought, "Oh! Two neighbor cats!" A second look had me thinking, "Wait, that one isn't the right shape for a cat," while a third look told me that the other critter was more cat-shaped. When it occurred to me that the fact that the two creatures were roughly the same size did not mean they had to be the same species, I was able to recognize that the fluffy long-haired cat was trotting behind a smallish raccoon. Very cute!

I keep meaning to write more here, honest I do. There was a week when I was full of more energy than I can remember having in years--you saw the posts about walking more than six miles two days in a row, but didn't know that I walked about four miles each day for three days after that. Finally crashed, though, no worse than expected. It would be nice to know where all that energy came from during that week so I could know how to get it back, but the only things I can think of that I did different from the usual were (A) taking massive amounts of antibiotics and (B) eating large quantities of yogurt and other cultured dairy products to ameliorate the effects of those massive amounts of antibiotics. Am still eating lots of yogurt, though, so that probably isn't the sole answer. Anyway, after the week of walking, I've been busy reacquainting myself with myself, reminding me of all the things I'm interested in. Taking time to relearn who I am seems important right about now.

The trees and early flowers are getting ready for spring--lots of budding branches, blooming crocuses, and even an overachieving flowering forsythia. Orion is looking down on it all as the sliver of nearly-new moon smiles. If anything else happens, I'll try to remember to write about it.