A quick trip to Kinkaid Spillway
Laura was sweet and let me swap our workdays and Lucy days for the coming week to better align with my upcoming evening plans (frogging and astrophotography). That meant that this morning was suddenly my day with Lucy. I made a quick decision to head to Kinkaid Spillway so that we could get some miles and also go swimming. I was concerned about the potential that it could be very crowded, but hoped that the 72-degree weather this morning would keep people from swimming early. We hustled out the door and got there ahead of the crowd. We were the 7th car in either of the two parking lots (there were dozens of cars when we left). We took a detour along the river and through some woods in an attempt to pick up a bit more distance, spotting this structure along the way. We still don't take Lucy on long hikes in the pack that Julia, Blake, Ivy, and Finn sent us, but we are trying to get her used to it on shorter walks. This was only about 1 mile, so it was ...