August 30 Run/Walk: North Side discovery! Meet at Gretchen's house 10090 Oakridge Dr., Wexford

Next week's special plan from Beth:  

"Gretchen and I will cohost the run next Sunday, starting from her house at 10090 Oakridge Drive. (map.)We’ll explore a lovely stream side trail in Vestal Park. The walkers can then make their way back to Gretchen’s back patio, and the runners can do the same, or the more ambitious can visit a second nearby park, Potter Park. Or maybe we will go and see the neighbors’ house with the gigantic Steelers emblem on the side."

Last week around Homestead, walkers found some kind of forest patio (see photo - would be great for a coffee hour!) and runners went to investigate possibilities for making a circuit:  Costco parking lot-Glenwood Bridge-Duck Hollow Trail-Homestead Grays Bridge-back to Costco.  Answer: maybe.  We only got partway, but a railroad agent we ran into said it was possible. It's a little grungy on the Homestead side, and would take more than an hour.  A challenge!

Endorsements:

• Chatting with our Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman and also his extraordinary wife Gisele, who remembered RG's visit to their house a long time ago!  (November 8, 2015 to be exact.)
• The word Verblunget.
• Carnegie Library COVID outdoor book delivery and dropoff.  It works!
• Related:  reading in bathtubs.
• Elementary school: film strips, and incidences of escaped bodily fluids, not related.
• How are we going to vote?  So many possibilities and questions and stress!  The group will have a mind meld to determine this soon.  In the meantime, the League of Women Voters has these flyers (1 and 2).
• The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books - remembered fondly but then I read this.
• podcast:  Nice White Parents (some of us were, maybe not so nice?)