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Buckeye Striders Rainy Walk July 25

Saturday mornings usually find members of the Buckeye Striders walking together. Today’s walk walk was scheduled for Alum Creek Park in Westerville. And walk we did - at least an abbreviated one. A couple of unseasonal torrential down pours punctuated our time on the trail, contracting it to about 2.5 miles in about 40 minutes. Other than the rain, we did have a highlight to share. We stopped our walk about a mile into it to observe a deer and two white spotted young ones. The pictures here don’t do the experience justice, being taken on an iPhone.

We’d scheduled one of our periodic picnic breakfasts and business meetings afterward. The downpours put a crimp in the planned use of the picnic pavilion at Sharon Woods. Instead, we found ourselves gathering under the porch of a (closed on Saturdays) health care building along Cleveland Avenue. Along with pastries, fruit, coffee and fried chicken (I know, fried chicken for breakfast?), we heard a treasurer’s report from Jack Shuter. Jack has returned from his recent hospital stay, again tending to business and happy to be on the trails again.

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