Time To Be Extra Careful

 

Adventure Location:

Decatur, Alabama

Date: July 28, 2023

This has been an interesting day for the OFM. On the trail this morning was some small flowers of the yellow or white or blue colors which are common and very pretty flowers. BUT today there were a few very special small flowers of the same variety but a gorgeous orange that glowed. We do not recall seeing them in the orange color before but we certainly liked them.

Now for the OFM news. Today he made it a 3 mile day at full walking speed for him but it proved to be a stupid move on a HOT, HUMID, NO BREEZE DAY. By the time we hit the turn around point of the 1.5 mile marker he knew he could not be doing this under these conditions any more.

We wish we knew if old aging caused this or the weather conditions did it by itself. The OFM was very well hydrated today so that was not the trouble. The recovery period has been too long. Starting tomorrow we will be looking for a 1.5 miles round trip to be accomplished and at a slower speed of walking until after Labor Day. When an hour morning walk takes three hours to recover you better change your style. The OFM was caught a bit off guard at his reaction to the conditions but one thing he has learned over the years is listen when things go wrong.

Recovering has caused a bit of store shopping in air conditioned comfort. We still have a very vivid memory of the doctor who treated the OFM for his fourth heatstroke saying in very plain language “ The next one of these will probably kill you.” So folks please be careful of these difficult outside temperatures as you are busy trying to have tooooo much fun.