How I Capped Off My Extra-Long Weekend

   Today is Day 4 of my Extra-Long Weekend ( I already have Mondays off so when a long weekend pops up they give me the Tuesday as well) and my plan was to have a little breaky this morning, go for a run, and then meet my son, Bryant, later on for some driving.
   Well, I had the breaky and was leisurely wandering around, collecting my run stuff from laundry baskets when, all of the sudden, it started to pour. And thunder. And lightning. So the running was temporarily put on hold.
   This gave me the opportunity to re-wash a load of clothes and cook up some granola.
   Re-washing the clothes was necessary as I believe some young lad already washed them and then took them out of the dryer and then left them in a heap in the laundry basket. Which meant that the following day (today) everything was wrinkled. No big deal.
   Doralyn's everyday breaky consists of yogourt with Holy Crap (google it), granola, and fruit. She had one more serving of granola left and seeing as how it was raining and I had to do a load of laundry anyway, why not cook granola? So I did! Here's the "prep" pic!

The stuff you need...

...to make this!

   After I finished making the granola, out came the sunshine! I re-found all my running stuff and headed out on the same 5K run I did the last time. Basically I run one big square, encompassing several blocks, in my neighbourhood. This neatly takes 5

Yay for dry streets!

kilometers. The street I live on forms one side of the box and it is a long street which slopes gently upward until it gets near the end, at which point it slopes steeply upward. Because I live halfway up the street, the real steep section is the first one I encounter. It's actually kind of nice to get it out of the way when you're at your most rested. Psychologically, but not actually, the rest of the way seems downhill.
   A little over half a kilometer into the run, Doralyn called me. I'd neglected to text her that I was headed out on a run otherwise she wouldn't have called me but I was happy enough to walk and talk briefly.
   The rest of the run went pretty well and not quite as much need for walking as when I was out last. I also ended up running it about a minute faster, once I factored in the telephone conversation so all is well. At this point I've been out running three days out of the last four and the one day I didn't run I was busy doing yardwork. Just have to keep at it!
   After the run, it was time to make meatloaf! The plan was I make the meatloaf and leave it for Doralyn who then sticks it in the oven later on at the designated time and temperature so that it's ready to go when I get back from driving with Bry. The plan went off more or less (we ate late) without a hitch. And this is what the meatloaf looked like!

I also made the other half--you'll
just have to take my word for it!

   Bryant and I did some driving around and some errands and by the time I got home it was almost dinner. Tomorrow it's back to work but my extra-long weekend means only a three-day workweek for me and that ain't tough to take! To top it all off, in about ten days, I've got two weeks of vacation! And lots of running!