I just started "walking" around my neighborhood.  I've managed to get 5 miles in a four day period... I'm so glad I've done this!  I always wanted to be a "walker"!  I had way too many excuses not to walk:  Texas is too hot, humid, and down-right "flat"!   Well our street is nicely paved and a double-wide boulevard lined with every kind of tree from 100+yr old oaks, Pin, Live, many others, Pine, Pecan, Magnolia, Cypress, Juniper, Oleandars, Hackberry, Crepe Myrtles, just beautiful to see with all the old charming, 1930's, '40's, 50's homes with a few possibly built even in the seventies!! 

I love my new hobby of walking... I do this early while the kids are still asleep! Although my teenager wakes up to get ready for school and "watch over her siblings".

 I take our 48 lb. six-month old, white German Shepherd for exercise (and of course protection)!  She is quite a motivator; not tiring, very alert, and barks if someone or something (another dog) comes too close!

 I smiled one morning as she barked at a fenced- Pit Bull and thought about how God protects us from the enemy as we follow Him through our difficult times!  The Pit Bull (the enemy) was fenced, seemed frightening and intimidating, but couldn't get to us because he was locked behind the fence!!  My German Shepherd made me feel safe; she would fight the PB if need be otherwise; just keep moving forward, away from the enemy!

I love how God uses "ordinary" things to show us "extraordinary" things!

I don't remember how to change this icon or ticker here... it's of course July, but I like this little thing!