Oh, my body is so sore right now. It was newspaper delivery day (for our weekly paper route) so I went out on my bicycle for most of it. It was a nice thin paper today…good for quick deliveries but not so much money involved. Anyway, that took me a little over an hour.

After I showered, Lego Lover and I went off to Whiteman Park to look for native birds and trees. We didn’t have much luck with the birds. We mostly saw crows and magpies which we can see pretty much any time we want. I did see some galahs just before we left but that was exotic as we found on this particular occasion.

We walked from the village of the park to the Mussel Pool, which is about a kilometre away. There’s what’s called a Children’s Forest along the way and we passed through its many areas in the course of our journey. Lego Lover normally would complain of tiredness but he was having a nice time being “in nature” as he puts it and did quite well. We’ve been worried about his lack of exercise lately. He’s perfectly normal height and weight but his fitness is very poor. So I am making an effort to get him moving more often before he suffers problems from inactivity. He quite enjoyed running around today so it was well worth the short trip (we live five minutes from the park and it’s another five to reach the parking areas).

We both took our cameras but discovered the batteries for his camera were dead. He hasn’t tried to use it in a long time so it should be no surprise. We will have to recharge them before we make another attempt. I took quite a few photos in the course of our meanderings and will try to post some soon. I need to reinstall my photo editing program before I do that…I’ve got so many photos on my camera that it will have to be soon.

Down by the Mussel Pool (that as far as I know has no mussels), Lego Lover played at a tiny playground for quite a while. It was interesting to watch as the sky went from clear blue to mostly dark grey over the course of about forty-five minutes. We had another stop at the big playground at the village when we went back. LL was happy that there weren’t many kids there and had a great time playing. I pretty much had to drag him away before it started raining.

We have plans to go there more regularly, maybe once a week or fortnight to help us with our current project on Australian birds and trees.

I got plenty of exercise today but the body isn’t so happy about the over-exertion. Also, I realised the inserts of my shoes are now well over a year old and need to be replaced which is a likely explantion as to why my knees feel so unstable these days. I’m thinking of seeing a podiatrist before I get new ones so they can tell me all I am doing wrong to my feet.