Caper in Progress --- Day 6/199

Walk: Fillmore Street
Distance: 2 miles, Home Yoga and Try, Try, Try on clothes, clothes, clothes

Ciwt's favorite clothes season.  But So Much work involved in her Fall closet caper.

Perplexed Today --- Day 6/198

Walk: Marin Driving Day, Fillmore 
Distance: 2 miles, Home Yoga

Catch you tomorrow.

Laughing Water --- Day 6/197

Walk: PGCC (x2)
Distance: 1 Mile, Home Yoga, Hit Bucket of Balls

You know how you live somewhere and never go to its most famous site?  Like climbing the Statue of Liberty, riding the Staten Island Ferry or walking across the Golden Gate Bridge?  Well, even though Ciwt grew up near it, she never went to Minnehaha Falls.  In fact she actually thought it was some fictional place created by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his sad poem The Song of Hiawatha.  But, ha ha, no: Minnehaha Falls does exist, it's quite wonderful and Ciwt finally visited it on her recent trip to Minneapolis.

Big Woman - Piece by Piece --- Day 6/196

Walk: Union Square
Distance: 1 mile, Home Yoga

Lori Green, Mosaic Woman, 

When she was back in Minneapolis Ciwt Loved this powerful mosaic woman by by glass mosaic sculpture artist, Lori Green.  She read that Green is driven by a deep interests in race, culture, history and spirituality.  

Mosaics are created piece by piece, each piece individually cut and placed by the artist.  So physically difficult, and how in the world does she know where she is in the piece and make all those creative choices as she goes along? 

Here are just a couple of small sections:

Look at all those changes in color and pattern.  So creative and skillful!!

All Aboard --- Day 6/195

Walk: No, but Heavy Gardening getting rid of all the dead leaves after our heat wave
Distance: Small, Home Yoga

Rescued Texas pets being readied for trip on private plane to San Francisco.  Ciwt Loves stories like this - and so admires all first responders.

Heat Wave Victim --- Day 6/194

Walk: Around Fillmore looking (to no avail) for a new Vases
Distance: 2 miles in continued heat, home yoga

Something (unrepariable)happened to Ciwt's FAVORITE vase during the heat wave.  RIP.

  

  First Day at Ciwt's

 

Temperature Jeopardy --- Day 6/193

Walk: NO! Too hot to even read, so buy ticket and drive to SF Playhouse (Cage Aux Folles - again) .
          Out of the heat - hopefully they have air conditioning* - and into a touching and delightful                    play.
Distance: 15 scorching blocks and relaxed home yoga

Jeopardy Round:

Answer: In most years, San Francisco averages a daily maximum temperature for August that's between 66 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit (19 to 21 degrees Celsius). The minimum temperature usually falls between 54 and 56 °F (12 to 14 °C).

Question: What is the average temperature in San Francisco in August?

Double Jeopard Round:

Answer:   According to weather.com, the warmest month on average is September with an average high of 71°F and low of 56°F. 

Question: What is the average temperature in San Francisco in September?

Answer: 106 Degrees on September 1, 2017 (Yesterday).*

Question: What is the all time heat record in San Francisco and when was it set?

* And today isn't over...Plus, nope on the air conditioning, but the play still such a touching upper

Trust Ciwt on the Sunscreen --- Day 6/192

Walk: Trader Joe's

Distance: Death Defying 2 miles in Never-in-San-Francisco 100 degree weather and LA type smog,                  Yoga too

In August 1997, Chicago Tribune columnist, Mary Schmich began one of  her columns with these words: Ladies and gentlemen of the Class of '98: Wear sunscreen.*

Because Ciwt's father had died quite young of melanoma (the most lethal form of skin cancer), Ciwt was already doing that - religiously, every day.  On her face.  Somehow she had taken the medical warnings to mean 'Always wear sunscreen on your face.  And, if you go to the beach or will be out all day recreating in the sun, put it on your body as well."

This she thought and did until a few days ago when a creepy looking spot appeared on her lower leg right around her pants hemline.  Because she's Ciwt (and anxious about skin stuff), she got herself to the doctor as soon as she could - an hour would have been just fine.  The doctor did a biopsy, which Ciwt sweated throughout her trip. The results were indeed skin cancer, but luckily not melanoma, very superficial because she had had it checked so soon, and she's already had it removed.

The moral of Ciwt's tale here is that we need to be putting sunscreen on every part of ourselves that is exposed to the sun, every day.  In other words: Wear sunscreen.  And, secondly, if you notice any new spot, get it checked as quickly as you can while it is still at a superficial layer of the skin.  

Most likely your spot won't be cancer.  There are myriad kinds of skin spots, most of which are totally benign.  But they all kind of look alike, so likely the doctor will take a biopsy to know exactly what she/he is looking at.  Don't be anxious about that (unless you are like Ciwt).  If it isn't skin cancer - which it probably won't be - so you're out the cost of a doctor visit.  Money well spent Ciwt thinks.

Meanwhile, trust her - and the docs and Mary Schmich - on the sunscreen.  And read Mary's whole column - except for the line about Northern California - by pressing the link above.*

*You may already know it as a 'commencement speech' supposedly given by Kurt Vonnegut. That's how it went viral.  Read it again anyway.