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Re: My Daily Walk (Dec 22, 2021) :-)

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Dec 22, 2021


Didn't see any of the regulars.


There's a very white skinned woman, not transparent skinned like those 
British piles of ground meat, but very white with very black hair and 
eyes, that I have been seeing just about every day recently, walking 
very fast. With that speed she cannot be walking very long distances, 
but I don't know yet. She could be one of those rare Hispanics, but 
could also be from southeastern Europe or caucasia or from Iran for that 
matter. The only time their skin get pink or red is when they're very 
angry or very excited. If I don't get Sun for a few months in a row, my 
skin becomes like that. When I was working my warehouse job that was the 
case every winter.

Saw the tall giant with dildo up his ass again, from a distance.

I saw a mid-sized turtle sitting on the tip of a log sticking out of a 
pond by which I was walking. Water level has gone down enough to expose 
that submerged tree trunk. The season to see lots of baby turtles around 
here is the same month or two that pecans are ripe and falling. But this 
year I did not see the turtles! This turtle I saw today was the first. 
Another strange thing about this Fall/Winter.

I'm not new to long walks. As I mentioned earlier I did some of that 
already in Iran (in high school and university years) and almost right 
after I came to USA, once a week around Dallas's largest lake. That was 
not exercise but a reconditioning or resetting myself once a week. My 
daily long walks is something new in my life and only began a couple of 
weeks after a judge locked everybody off work and businesses last year 
in April (against the wishes of the Governor). And this time around it 
_is_ mainly for exercise. There is no "resetting" about it that I can 
feel or need. But there is for sure therapy in it in addition to mere 
exercise.

Therapy is a thing of its own. It is not exercise and it is not 
entertainment or site seeing. It gets something done that neither of 
those other activities can do by themselves. It just makes everything 
physically and mentally in you the way it should be for that same day. 
If you miss a day you lose that day in your life in some ways. That's 
why I see regulars here everyday, I think. It is my first impression of 
the incentives they may have. Just six of them this far. Six out of 
millions of people living around here! That's the chance you have for 
stumbling on the usefulness of this amazing therapy :) So almost all of 
you who read this, today and in the future, are clueless about it of 
course specially if you live in an urban surrounding. In rural areas 
people have better chances of discovering what it is and what I'm 
talking about.

Most caterpillars are now gone cause there aren't that many trees with 
any leaves on them left. One particular one is still around though. Very 
black in color with dense long hair and about an inch or so long.  My 
neighbors have two different names for them, I think Leopard Moth and 
the other I don't remember. I see just about every day yellow 
butterflies also. Could these butterflies be the outcome of such 
caterpillars? They're for sure no "moths." Some moths do look like 
butterflies in shape and colors but butterflies fly differently from 
moths. They are different insects.

I just checked the internet, the other name for them is Wolly Bear that 
someone had said but I think that's not exactly the same caterpillar. 
Wolly Bear according to internet has a midsection red color to it while 
Leopard Moths are all black. If I get time I'll read about them. 
Apparently one of the trees that still have leaves on them is the source 
of what they eat. I doubt they'd eat evergreens, those leaves are just 
awful. I used to occasionally make a tea with pine leaves cause someone 
had said it was good for something but stopped after reducing my meal 
frequency. Now I've got better things to fill my stomach with on those 
rare occasions :) Hehe :)

In Spring when leaves are plenty caterpillar numbers skyrocket around 
here because the bird that preys on them is missing. This has been so in 
the past three years. Could it be that Covid kills birds as well? I know 
that one of the deadliest feline virus infections (FCV) is something 
almost identical to Covid 19, killing cats in the same manner.

When I asked neighbors in Spring and early Summer about these 
overpopulation of caterpillars they didn't know anything about it and 
hadn't seen such abundance of them before. In Iran there aren't that 
many caterpillars seen other than silk producing ones. Birds would not 
give them a chance, neither as caterpillar nor as moths. Just the house 
sparrows are enough to decimate them all.

In elementary schools in Tehran, the Spring's most common trading 
between us kids in school was silk caterpillar trading :-)) Just about 
any kid in those weeks of the year had a little cardboard box in his 
pocket with mulberry leaves inside and a number of silk caterpillars of 
various sizes there eating those leaves. In the breaks between the 
classes we traded the caterpillars. The larger they were the more 
valuable. You could get 5 little ones for one large one, and sometimes 
we paid money for them also. I think if I remember it right the price 
for a very large one was 2 rials in those days (about half of the price 
of one chicken egg). Small ones were being sold in batches of 5 or 10 
for one rial. It was great entertainment every Spring in school in those 
days. These caterpillars were cool to the touch, their body temperature 
was always significantly below human body temperature.

Then of course on non-trading days you'd just leave that box in the 
house and only changed the old leaves with new ones every day until 
you'd begin to see cocoons of amazingly bright colors formed :-)) These 
colors could be orange, white, black, green, just about any color you'd 
imagine! And this was the climax for which we kids did all those trading 
:) You wouldn't need to put mulberry leaves there anymore, there were no 
caterpillars left. Then a couple of weeks later you'd see various moths 
appearing inside the box, and almost as soon as that they'd begin laying 
eggs. When eggs would appear, you needed to again begin placing fresh 
mulberry leaves inside the box. I think the smell of these leaves would 
make the eggs open up and new tiny 1 and 2 mm long caterpillars coming 
to life :-)) Except this time you had a LOT of them, so as soon as 
they'd become large enough for trade you could make money in school 
selling them to kids who wanted to start the process.

We didn't have that many other activities in elementary schools in those 
days. Another one that comes to my mind was selling this unusually sour 
fruit, not whole but in cuts :) I have not seen this fruit in USA and it 
was indeed a fruit that you could not buy in bazaars. But its trees were 
in the area and some managed to put their hands on them, then would 
bring it to school, then would sell each cut of it for 1 rial :) Price 
of an "Adams" gum. It was very sour, to the point that even looking at 
them made your saliva glands ache with activity. And it had the texture 
and looks of quince but it was actually a cross between quince and lemon 
and its Persian name also directly indicated it ("beh-limu"). When its 
season came, kids were making money or spending money on them in breaks 
between classes.

Now that I got into it this far, I'll also mentioned the one other item 
kids sold in school, baby greengage :) As soon as they'd appear on trees 
we climbed them and picked them and ate as much of them as we wanted and 
the rest we'd take to school to sell to kids who didn't have access to 
them. They were also so sour. As kids we always were attracted to sour 
stuff. It worked if not better than sweet stuff then at least as well as 
them. Countless times I was out of them myself and had to buy some from 
other kids, but I also sold some. We sold them in batches of 5 or so. 
They were each the size of somewhere between a garbanzo bean and a 
cherry. Price was always higher for the larger ones of course.

Those poor trees would not get a chance to have their greengages mature 
and become large, sweet, and watery unless the tree was inside someone's 
garden with no kids there :) In bazaar you could always purchase the 
ripe ones but rarely in streets you'd see a temporary vendor selling 
those sour baby greengages. The price was higher than the ripe ones of 
course, otherwise they'd wait till they get ripe and then sold them.

As I said before, long distance walking is a sensitive matter and can't 
be done carelessly. Tiniest factors play roles. especially at my age. 
Even if you tie your shoelaces to wrong tightness you'll get punished 
for it. For some reason today my left shoe (walmart one) was not tied as 
tightly as my right shoe and this alone caused my left foot's metatarsus 
begin to ache hour or so into the walk. I looked down and noticed the 
difference between my left and right shoes tightness and adjusted the 
left one as the right one was and the pain soon went away!

So it is trickier than the shoes you wear in a warehouse where variety 
of movements are almost endless. In long distance walking tiniest 
factors matter because they get repeated over and over for several hours.

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