Today's walk report: 12 Volts of Disappointment

I was able to get some "extra" sleep in this morning after finally finding the snooze button on the 4:00 a.m. Lucy the Cat alarm clock. She got brushed in my lap with my eyes closed until she decided she was okay to go back to her fort in the adjacent nightstand. I got up for coffee at 7:00. The scattered clouds outside of my upper kitchen windows looked spectacular, and I decided to get crankin' with the caffeine, shower, and stuff, and I'd head out in the car for a walk. As mentioned numerous times, I like to get about 1/2 mile out of the neighborhood before I start my walk. A short drive to the Launching Pad, so to speak. This morning, the car thought otherwise. I knew the battery was being temperamental yesterday, making a click, err... err... sound as the engine starts. In fact, I made sure my NOCO jump starter was fully charged once I got home. I'm pretty sure it was 2021 when I last replaced the battery. 

Sure enough, this morning, the car battery was thoroughly depleted, I chose not to mess with the NOCO and decided to hoof it from home instead. The revised game plan was to walk to at least the nearby arboretum, see how much territory I cared to cover, and then call Triple A, battery service, once I got home. It was about 73º to 80º with a relative humidity of 55% to 45% from start to finish. The Canadian Humidex calculator called it “little or no discomfort.” Well, yeah, maybe if you're sitting still. I called it, not awful. The walk was a little longer than yesterday's walk and measured out at 2.61 miles.

I didn't take many pictures.

First stop, heading for the arboretum. This is my weather report shot.

 From there I skipped any formalities in the arboretum and headed for the botanical garden. Photo to photo, for the loop I took, that's 0.44 miles apart.

 I was sitting on a bench there, chatting with the junior garden/arboretum curator. I ended up bringing up the cycad trunk mentioned in yesterday's walk report. He said they think that's the work of rats. If they ate it... They're dead. A possible alternative answer is they aren't eating, they're only shredding and then using the fiber for nesting material. 

After the rest on the bench and the chat I headed back home. This spot is about 300 yards from where I usually park my car. I was shooting above houses here.

 This kitty was approximately 320 yards from me stepping back inside my house. I measure walks on Google Earth with the ruler tool. It calculates the ground distance using geodesic measurement on the WGS 84 ellipsoid model—accounting for the earth’s curvature to give precise, down-to-the-foot mileage (or kilometers, meters, yards, feet, inches, nautical miles and smoots) for every detour.

 An Auto Club (contracted) battery service dude was at my house 10 minutes after I placed the call and within another 20 minutes I had a new battery plus he made sure my tires were properly inflated (they weren't beforehand). 

Once again, helping me with this report was the lovely Junimoon.

 My car is actually silver. Man in a Silver Car.