Exercise hurts

It’s time for a little exercise. Yes, I know, I should include physical, but this time I’m going to stick to mental. I’m growing ragged, rusty — slack. I need to write.

George and Winnie in front of Toad Lake Town Hall.

Some people don’t understand bloggers — exposing our inner selves to the harsh, sadistic or just plain uncaring world around us. Sharing one’s life with the masses is dangerous. Nobody else needs to know, unless they’re a close friend, in which case they can ask.

That’s valid. Perfectly. I didn’t understand the concept when my former brother-in-law started a blog while in college several years ago. Why would you want to put yourself out there? Who besides family would care to read it anyway?

Some of us just need to do it. I don’t share everything. I have been perhaps too open with parts of my life and yet I’ve held back, too. And I’d just like to remind those folks that blogging doesn’t have to be personally revelatory.

How about I write about someone else’s life? Someone I don’t know. In fact, I’ll concoct their life from fragments I’ve seen through time. Remember those vacation slides from the 1950s and ’60s  — from Minnesota and Arizona? It took some digging to find those two entries; it was a year ago —— last February! Let’s explore some more of those photos…

George and Winnie loved Toad Lake, Minnesota. Bambi Resort beckoned every summer and they would pack up the Packard and join Lou and Mary and sometimes another couple or two and spend a week in the woods, fishing, frolicking in the lake and lounging around one of the rustic cabins. It's easy to see why they loved it there. The scenery is beautiful.

Bambi Resort, established in 1949, is on Toad Lake is situated between Detroit Lakes and Park Rapids just off Minnesota Highway 34 on the edge of Smokey Hills State Forest. Sometimes the “campers” would make a side trip to the state forest to walk the trails and scout wildlife. But most days they'd tool around the lake on a boat, looking like typical 1950s vacationers. 

Anyway, George and Winnie were boring old farts, so we may have to check on their friends later to see what fun they had at Bambi Resort.

p.s. I started this Thursday and didn’t finish. When I came home from work today I decided to go for a run — it was 44 degrees after all!

Today's Stats (March 7, 2014)

Temp: 44 degrees F

Distance: 3.47 miles

Weekly Total: 3.47 miles

Treasure: 22 cans.

iPod Playlist (Shuffle):

Trampled Under Foot – Led Zeppelin

Sarah – Ray LaMontagne

Helter Skelter (live) – U2

TheReflex – Duran Duran

Two of Us – The Beatles

Why Can’t This Be Love – Van Halen

O MaryDon’t You Weep (live) – Bruce Springsteen with The Sessions Band

Stuck in the Middle With You – Stealers Wheel

A Certain Girl – Warren Zevon

Scenesfrom An Italian Restaurant – Billy Joel