I'm going to start this entry by
explaining that Saturday was Cookie Depot day, when we distribute
Girl Scout cookies to all of the troops in Tigard, Tualatin and
Sherwood. Seven thousand cases of cookies. 84,000 boxes of
cookies. A LOT of cookies. Needless to say, there is a lot of
bending and lifting and carrying and loading involved in this. I am
not used to spending an entire day on my feet, on concrete, walking
back and forth in the warehouse and to and from cars and I spent most
of yesterday (Sunday) whimpering whenever I had to move. Okay not
really, but I was very, very sore and tired.
Knowing that this would be the
case, we decided last week that we would pull one of our “slacker”
walks out. There are several walks in the book that don't really
qualify as a full walk, but we still want to check them off our list.
Our options are grouping a bunch together (which would probably
involve more time driving than walking) or saving them for days such
as today, when it's pretty impressive that we didn't just cancel.
Believe me, it was tempting.
The walk starts at 2nd
and Pine in downtown Sherwood and goes past the library and various
small shops, then down into Stella Olsen Memorial park. We turned
left onto a really long wooden walkway over the marshes – I'm sure
that at other times of year it's a great place for bird watching, but
today we only saw a couple of ducks. The path winds past a picnic
area and amphitheater then comes up out of the park within a couple
blocks of the car. One mile, less than 20 minutes and home in time
for breakfast. On a side note, when I got home I actually read the
description in the “Walk There” book and found that there were
all sorts of interesting things we should have been paying attention
to – the Old Sherwood Hotel, built in 1890 and the Graves Cannery
from 1918 as well as the site of a civic protest in the 1910's to get
the railroad to build a crossing. Maybe we'll go back sometime and
pay more attention...and go to the little antique store we passed, of
course.
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