walking 22:00 [1] 1.1 km (20:00 / km)
over to the park & back - spent 2 hr out in sun (continuing light sunburn from yesterday), met Remie the schnoodle, Lady the mop, & Murray the park dude - must be so satisfying to have made a park so wondrous right from its hideous beginnings as a (thin) dirt lid on a garbage dump - now it has... no less than five play areas for kids - swings, sandbox, climby thing, etc; then for teenagers basketball, soccer/baseball field (almost finished), terrain-bike area (that is used!), & an enclosed street hockey rink; various useable sculptures (adirondack chairs & a huge baronial inlaid table), three picnic areas, country-lane stroll, sunbowl/airplane-watching lawn, drinking fountain & washroom, & a state-of-the-art almost finished dog play area, fenced, small-dog & big dog areas as well as agility tubes & jumps, etc; & for older folk, lotsa benches. Nowadays Murray walks around monitoring the gases from the dump to make sure it doesnt get too crazy-toxic above-ground...I guess it is the best thing to do w/ a dump if you hafta use the real estate, this way no-one gets seriously gassed year-in-year-out the way they would if they zoned it for residences...