TGIF

Morning peeps, it FRIDAY........  Looking forward to a lovely weekend weather wise.  It has been a gourgeous October so far here in northern MN.  The leaves have all fallen off the trees, I crunch through them on walks with the critters.  Fall is my fav season.  It never lasts long enough.  I spent part of last week driving around the state with Patrece, showing her some of my haunts and some of the areas of MN.  We found lots of hills and steps to climb in the park areas, great exercise.  I found out that Split Rock lighthouse on Lake Superior is celebrating its 100 year anniversary and they are lighting it once a month during the celebration.  I would love to see a light house illuminated.  The next lighting will be Nov 5th.  Seeing what I can do to get to that lighting.  May need to trudge through some snow, but I want to be there.  One of the best view points for the show will be on the shore of the lake.  The path that leads to the shore is a wooden staircase.  The signage when Patrece and I were there stated that there were 171 steps from the lighthouse to the shore.  Yes, we walked down and up those 171 steps.  Talk about a buns workout.  Felt good to take on and complete the walk.  I can't wait to try again, I would do this everyday for a workout, except for the 2.5 hour drive from my place to the lighthouse.  Tis ok, there are other steps to use for daily workouts, stairwells for that matter.  The view is not nearly as spectacular.  A girl has to do what a girl has to do.

Any plans for the weekend?  I still have 3 days of my vacation left, I plan to spend as much of this time outdoors, enjoying the remants of fall as I can.  I may go to Duluth just for more time at the shore of Lake Superior, there is a new stretch of the lake walk that just opened and I haven't explored that yet.  The dogs will enjoy being outdoors with me.  Maybe Dennis will join us too, I will let you know how that turns out.

Be kind to yourselves, be kind to others and spread the smiles about the world.  Let others wonder what has you so happy.  Smiles are contagious, start spreading the smiles.  I could break into a tune of some kind, thank goodness this is not recorded.  I would break some eardrums.  So add your own smiling tune to the weekend. 

Let your feet crunch on some fallen leaves as you walk about.  Have a great one.  Hugs for all.

Ohhhh man... were those SOME steps too. especially after all of the steps and hill walking just before we got there! Felt great to be able to do all of that activity and not feel lie someone just worked me over! lol.

Missing Kathy lots!