Not for Non Fans --- Day 15/48

Walk: Not yet

Distance: tbd

CIWT can't ignore it, especially when it is here in the Bay Area.  So, Ciwt will be tuned in later today and is (foolishly) predicting the Seahawks by 14 or more points.  'Catch' you later with results.....

Super Bowl Experience (of sorts) --- Days 15/45 - 47

Walks: Hood

Distance: Average 3.5 miles

Super Bowl Experience, Moscone Center, February, 2026

So, maybe you've heard.  The Super Bowl is being played here in the Bay Area and a lot of the events are happening in San Francisco.  Because she doesn't live near a Pro sports arena, Ciwt didn't think there were many out of town fans in her neighborhood.  Then she went to her local Trader Joe's!  

Ciwt herself was going to go to Super Bowl Experience, a multi day Super Bowl fan event that sounded like a lot of fun. The day before her ticket she happened to hear a TV sportscaster reporting on the Experience.  According to him there were throngs of kids happily engaged all sorts the football-esque activities while their parents who had brought them from all over the globe enjoyed watching them.  At one point, the reporter said "Forget social distancing!  When one of the pro athletes shows up, the crowd is thick with kids trying to get a glimpse!"  Clearly he was enthusiastic and saw this as a total positive.  But Ciwt knows plenty of grandparents who seem to be perpetually under the weather from their grandchild sitting stints, so all she heard was "flu!," "colds," "kids diseases!"  So, she decided to let her ticket go unused.😞

She will defintely watch the game though.  After her fashion that is.  In her youth she was her father's football watching buddy and sat with him almost without moving from the kickoff to the final play.  Now her style is to turn on her bedroom TV, then change the bed sheets, fluff flowers, do a closet or other caper -  all while keeping an ear peeled for important replays.   

Maybe you too?  Whatever your style, Ciwt wishes you a good and healthy Super Bowl Experience. 

Merry Valentines Day --- Days 15/40-44

Walks: Hood

Distance Average: 4 miles

February 4

So none of Ciwt's cats over the years have shown their appreciation of her on Valentines Day.  Thia year looks like her Christmas amaryllises have decided to make up for that.

February 1

Hints of Spring --- Day 15/39

Walk: Presidio and Hood

Distance: 5 miles

So, almost the end of January, and Ciwt and CIWT are still feeling like the San Francisco spring shrubs barely beginning to enter the scene.  

Basket Case --- Day 15/38

Walk: Hood and beyond looking for baskets

Distance: 4 miles

Remember baskets?  In Ciwt's starving student (and beyond) years they were a great way to decorate.  Inexpensive with a crafty presence and available in abundance at places like Cost Plus and Pier One.  Now Cost Plus is named World Market and has almost no decorative ones, Pier One is gone, and Ciwt cases store after store with barely a basket in sight.

Doggy Diner --- Days 15/35- 37

Walks: Hood/Presidio

Average: 4 miles

A reader included the following in response to some ponderous world situation today, and it cheered Ciwt up.

Old New Yorker cartoon:

A dog sits at a linen-covered table, looking at a menu, in a fancy restaurant as a uniformed waiter stands near by.

“ Is the homework fresh?,” the dog asks the waiter.

Who Invented Duvets? --- Days 15/30-34

Walks: Hood & Opera House

Distances: 3.5 miles average

We Begin

Okay, here we go.  The duvet dreaded cover!  Ciwt was brought up in the age of quilts which were all of one piece.  It was still a chore to wash them, but when they were dry, you could just lay them on the bed and be done.  Now she lives in the age of duvets (the quilt part) and duvet covers which require spacial relationship skills to figure out how to get them over the duvet.  Then patience and fortitude as you try again and again to get it right.  And finally arm and back strength to somehow shake the heavy two part whole until it is even (or at least less lumpy).  Luckily there will be back to back football championship games on tv today to give Ciwt diversion while she wrestles with the duvet chore - with luck she'll be finished about when the second game is over.

SFO Beautiful (2) --- Day 15/29

Walk: Hood

Distance: Just 2 miles

“Four Corners” mosaic by artist Emily Fromm 

Another wonderful artwork at SFO Airport's Terminal 1* 

*See CIWT 15/28

Artist Emily Fromm's website: https://www.emilyfromm.com/