Walk: Crown Point Press
Distance: 5 miles
Absolutely Nothing beats the heart of a dog.
Walk: Crown Point Press
Distance: 5 miles
Absolutely Nothing beats the heart of a dog.
Walk: Golden Gate Pickleball
Distance: 3 miles, 90 minutes pickle
John Singleton Copley, Mrs. Daniel Sargent (Mary Turner), 1763, o/c |
Amy Sherald, First Lady Michelle Obama, 2018, oil on linen |
Walk: Monday Errands and Nails (finally)
Distance: 3 miles, small yoga
Ciwt couldn't possibly overstate the joy the Warriors have brought to the Bay Area.
Walk: Other home to do laundry and errands
Distance: 2.5 miles, small yoga
After Ciwt graduated from college she worked in New York for a pittance and shared a 2 bedroom apartment with three friends who were doing the same. Space was at a premium to put it mildly and she quickly formed a "New York Sense of Space."
So when she moved to San Francisco and saw that her closet looked like this: her reaction was "That's not a closet, it's a room!" She then proceded to use her closet/room as her office for 40 years.
When she moved to her new home recently and showed pictures to friends, they looked at all the open space and commented "Now you'll finally have a cheerful office out in the light."
But Ciwt had other ideas when she saw her new closet:
Yes, you guessed it, it is her new office:
Walks: Crisssy Field, GG Park Pickleball, City
Distances: 3 - 6.5 miles, 90 minutes pickleball, some yoga
Walks: The usual back and forthing with some 'free wheeling' thrown in
Distances: 1, 4 miles, 90 minutes pickle 2. 3.2 miles with some loping 3. 6.5 miles
So from March 7 when she saw her next home and had to figure out how to get into it until today, Ciwt has been suddenly and relentlessly involved in emptying one home/life and 'unemptying' another one. Three straight months, day and night. As of today the major things have been done - even the initial set up of her closet office (more on that in another CIWT) her least favorite. It has been all consuming.
But now...Now what?
Walks: The Back and Forths, Ups and Dowsn continue
Distances: Average 5 miles (some loping, some light yoga)
But meanwhile Ciwt continues to forsake you. Yesterday for organizing household cleaning products, the day before findng room for cat stuff and getting it in order, today as she remembers she got more deeply into office pens, pencils, files, that sort of stuff. The challenging joys of moving places continue...
Walk: The Moving errands continue
Distance: 3 miles
Every day is a new revelation for Ciwt when she uses her modern appliances (after figuring out how to turn them on). After 40 years using the dishwasher in her old home, she was shocked - and thrilled! - to see her glasses come out crystal clear. She thought a little less cloudy was state of the art.
Walks: Still Back and Forth (between homes) and Up and Down but almost entirely in new home
Distances: @ 3 miles daily, a little yoga here and there, 2 hours pickleball one day
Sometimes it feels like Ciwt's moving 'thing' is endless.
Meanwhile a few recommendations that got her mind off the 'thing' and her readers might appreciate for breaks from their 'things' 1. Better Call Saul, every season. Start at the beginning if you can. 2. NYT and other reviews and comments following each episode. You won't belive what you missed and how brilliant your fellow travelers are. 3. Bosch Legacy 4. Top Gun: Maverick. Great Blue Angels type flying and, if you are lucky, you are aging as well as Tom Cruise.
Walks: 1-8: Back and forth, Up and down, Round andround two places
Distances: @ 4 miles daily
Report from the field: Ciwt and cats are out of their old home and into the new one.
Walks: 1-4: Back and Forth, Up and Down Two Homes
Distance: 1-4 3.5 miles
Time is getting close and sleep is getting short for Ciwt. Moving day is day after tomorrow. (She does think about her readers as she packs and carries. Be well and hope for a real post one of these days).
Walks: All 3 days, the usual up and down the stairs with stuff, then, ahh, load in cart and take up in elevator at new place
Distance: 1. 3 miles, 2. 2.5 miles 3. 5 miles
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Fonteyn and Nureyev |
Walk: 1. No, resting aching knees from so much moving 😒 - good elevator is in her near future. 2. SF Ballet (Swan Lake x 2)
Distance: 1. n/a 2. 4. 2 miles
When possible Ciwt is a Grand Tier person at the ballet. From there she can see the whole stage as well as several sections of box seats and she's often wondered if the seats are comfortable and if the whole Box Seat experience is worth the expense. So yesterday, to celebrate the end of a glorious ballet season as well as a Grand Treat and diversion from her month of packing, she bought herself a Box Seat ticket.
Was the experience worth it? Well it was great being able to hang her coat in a separate, private section before going into her seat. Usually, like everyone, she's trying to navigate a tiny seat and find places to stash her coat, purse, opera glasses, program without elbowing seat mates or creating hazards for people needing to squeeze in and out. Plus all that space in the box did make the viewing more relaxing. And, yes, the chairs were pretty comfortable.
She also noticed, though, a bit of an 'attitude' around her. Some box seaters seemed sort of stuffy which was their privilege and fine because they were quiet in their highbrow way. But a few others were downright and overly 'entitled' - coming in 'whenever,' talking, taking pictures and iphone movies (when that is strictly forbidden) and taking off their masks (also forbidden).
So, would she treat herself to a Box Seat again? Maybe occasionally, but, really, she is a Grant Tour girl.
Walk: Today it was mostly lifting and packing Ciwt's office
Distance: 1.5 miles
Coming from back East, it took Ciwt a few years to understand the meaning of Cinco de Mayo Day that gets San Francisco in a fiesta mood every year.
In case you, too, don't know, here is Wikipedia to the rescue: Cinco de Mayo (pronounced [ˈsiŋko̞ ðe̞ ˈma̠ʝo̞] in Mexico, Spanish for "Fifth of May") is a yearly celebration held on May 5, which commemorates the anniversary of Mexico's victory over the Second French Empire at the
And in the United States, it has become a day to celebrate Mexican-American culture. California was Spanish, then Mexican, territory until 1848.
Walk: 1. Storeroom work 2. More packing + nails
Distance: 1. 2.3 miles + lots of bending, lifting and wiping off dust 2. 3 miles
Nope, the storeroom can't be avoided if you are moving.
Walk: 1. the 2 Homes 2. the usual back and forth, up and down + Presidio 3. Sf Ballet (Swan Lake 💗) 4. Marin shopping 5. Sooo windy 🍃
Distance: 1. 2 miles 2. 7.5 miles 3. 4.2 miles 4. 2.3 miles 5. 1.5 miles
So, as Ciwt may have mentioned (billions of times), it isn't easy leaving home. She doesn't necessarily believe in the 'stages of grief,' but she can relate to the one about 'bargaining.' At least daily, she says to herself "Oh wait, I don't have to sell. I'll just keep both places!" Then she lives with having two places 9 blocks apart, one empty, the other needing attention and daily visits - not to mention the expense - and comes to her senses. Until some time the next day, when the same idea flips into her brain, and the whole process starts again...
Walk: 1 - 5: Back and Forth between Places, Up and Down
Distance: 1. 5.4 miles 2. 2.4 miles 3. 2 miles 4. 2 miles 5. 2 miles
Walk: 1. Up and Down, Up and Down, Repeat 2. Same
Distance: 1. 4.7 miles 2. 2 miles
Today Ciwt was suddenly spent from packing up closets filled with objects of numerous types, sizes, shapes, weight - not to mention personal history. It's tricky and takes creativity and concentration getting all those things and memories organized and into to some containable and portable form. Also stamina to go up and down the many stairs in her soon to be former place.
So for the first time in a little over 40 years, she just sat alone in her almost empty new home.
At some point in her trips back and forth she'd brought a padded stadiuim seat. She had also brought a book to hold down the paper cut outs of her coming furniture. Turned out the book was about Matisse. The simple seat was comfortable. Her new place was quiet. The sun was pouring in her large filtered glass sliding doors. And with no planning at all, Ciwt was surrounded with her most treasured life elements - Sun, Light, Home, a Book, Matisse, Stillness, Solitude - and nothing to do but just savor them for a few precious hours.
Walk: You Know Where and Hood Errands
Distance: 4.5 miles
So Ciwt's cats were "Thanks, but no thanks" about their first visit to what will be their new home in a month. Of course, she didn't tell them that as they hid in their carriers.....
Walk: 1. SF Ballet, 2. usual T. Joe's and new place 3. Back and Forth goes Ciwt 4. Loading boxes
Distance: 1. 2.6 miles lope, 3.1 walk= 5.7 2. 4 miles 3. 5 miles 4. 2.2 miles
Ciwt stopped for moment in her 8-hour packing/moving/unpacking days to take heart from this Trader Joe's card. (They have some good ones at a great price!)
Walk: New Place 9of course0 and Trader Joe's
Distance: 4.4 miles
So here's the loaner car the dealer gave Ciwt while hers was going through a recall service. When given to her it had 20 miles on it, and they were very clear that it had just come in and Ciwt would be the first driver. They were also very clear that if there was even as much as a smudge on a tire when Ciwt returned it, she would be responsible for a $250+ damage charge.
Ciwt drove it to her garage very carefully. It is now sitting there where it will stay until her car is ready and she can drive the loaner back to the dealer very, very carefully.
Walk: 1, Haircut, Doc Annual, Booster #2 2. No, Rain & Taxes
Distance: 1. 3 miles 2. 2. 1 mile, yoga
So, this week a couple of Ciwt's friends, including her realtor, called to say they had Covid. She hadn't seen any of them for quite a while, but, to be on the safe side Ciwt gave herself a home test.
Well it went straight to a definite, dark line at "C." Covid!!! She was devastated. To be absolutely sure she grabbed the test tray with the definite "C" and went to a nearby free testing clinic.
When she got there and one of the doctors asked why she had come, Ciwt took out the "C" tray and showed it to her. "Oh," she said, "Control." Turns out that's what "C" is for - Control, not Covid. And you have to have two! lines showing, not just the definite "C" one.
Ciwt was embarrassed, they were nice, tested her again since she was there. And 15 minutes later Ciwt left with an official "Negative" result. The next day she went to get her second booster shot.
Walk: 1. ? 2. The usual, back and forth between places
Distance: 1. 2.8 miles 2. 5 miles
Walk: SF Ballet (Program 6)
Distance: 6 miles
Walk: Around closets full of 40 years of Ciwt stuff
Distance: 1.3 miles, small yoga
Seemed so important to stockpile these things at the time........
1.3 mile
Walk: 1 & 2. The usual, back and forth several times
Distance: 1. 6 miles 2. 8 miles
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Gray Whale Seen in San Francisco Bay, March 6, 2022 |
Walk: All walks in hood and in connection with Ciwt's moves out and in to her old/new homes
Distance: 1. 3.3 miles 2. 2 miles (drove back and forth) 3. 4 miles 4. 3.2 miles 5.2 miles, 1 hr. yoga (at last!)
This is Ciwt these days. No husband and kids to 'help', but her new place does have an elevator! and shopping carts she can borrow to wheel her things to it and up.
Walk: 1. Back and forth between new and old homes 2, 3 & 4: Ditto
Distance: 1.3.5 miles plus, flights down at new 2. 1.5 plus 4 down at new 3. 3.6 miles, 7 flights Up 4.miles
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So, CanIWalkThere continues to earn its blog name. Ciwt is so used to stairs at her present home for 40 years, she's taken to walking right past the elevator and using them at her soon-to-be new home.