Step Away From the Cake

 Trying to make Friday a hiking day. It won't happen every week, but I'm going to make it happen as often as possible. Hiking on the weekends during this time of year is insane. Too crowded and in general, people are idiots. So Friday it will be as often as I can make it happen.  Here are some pics from yesterdays hike. We went to Usery Regional Park and hiked the Blevins trail. It was a beautiful and the trail was just awesome.  The view at the beginning of the hike. It was such a beautiful, clear day.  Mavy on the trail. The trail was wide and basically flat with only a few rocks and stuff.  First time ever, I got a jumping Cholla on me. Thankfully it was on my boot and I could remove it fairly easily.  I never knew this sign existed. You can really only see it form the park.  Mavy near the end of the hike. He was kind of done and could not wait to get back to the car.  The trail was just a little over 3 miles and it took us an hour and a half. ...

 and I'm not sure how to explain the past couple of weeks. They have been really, really good. But in other ways not so much. Let's see if I can make sense out of this here on in my head.  I have not been working out much because the back and left knee has been giving me grief. The back has almost constant pain and the knee gets shooting pains, in fact the shooting pains go down my entire leg. I'm almost positive it sciatica as it starts in the low back and goes downward. However, I'm not 100% sure and don't know if I'm hiding my head in the sand by not having it looked at. But I also know that I have been at this heavy weight for the longest time ever. This could be contributing to the pain. In the past, I would get this heavy but then would do something to turn it around. So I'm working on using exercise to get it better but it's hard when the pain from it prevents you from exercising. A Catch-22. However, I have a plan. It seems that Supernatural both...