I decided to get back to our winter bingo bucket list, so Charlie and I went out for a night walk to look at the stars. However, these are not stars. These are the planes coming in for a landing at DIA. Every night the sky is filled with them. The planes don't fly directly over our house, but the sky is usually so clear we can see their lights from quite a distance. And BTW, I can also check off "walk 100 miles in 30 days." I finally got around to adding up my steps and on January 30th, I had walked 107 miles.
Yesterday I went to 2 different libraries. I've already checked off "visit a library" for the winter bingo list, but my library bingo card said to visit a different library than you normally go to. So first I stopped off at the Smoky Hill Library, because they have a little coffee shop in the lobby (the picture on the right). But then I went over to the Mission Viejo Library, because it's actually one of the branches that's sponsoring the bingo challenge. The Mission Viejo Library is really small and doesn't have a lot of books, but their used books are only $1.50. The used books at the Smoky Hill Library are $5 and up (all those books in the right-hand photo are used books).
We had another 60° day today, so the bike club rode over to Fika. This time I started from the neighborhood (22 miles round trip), rather than drive down to the trailhead. It's a little hairy starting from here, because we have to ride down a rural road. It doesn't have much traffic, but it also doesn't have any kind of shoulder or sidewalk. It was nice to know that my new bike handled the hills well (they are very steep), but I think I'm going to stick with driving down to the trailhead next time. It's too nerve-wracking when a car comes over the hill.
