Daysleeping

  The one thing I do regularly, other than eat and sleep, is walk.   It’s good for me, and I enjoy it, but I don’t think I could manage it daily if I didn’t need to take my dog for a long walk every day, rain or shine, to keep her happy and healthy and out of trouble.   We generally like to walk by long flowing bodies of water.   If you’re not from Houston, you’d call these things creeks or rivers, but here I walk every morning by a bayou (said “by-you” by me and almost everyone and “by-oh” by folks who want to let you know their people have been here a long time and Hank Williams, Sr).   There might not be a difference between a river and a bayou, practically, but lots of people think of our bayous as slow-moving and muddy; maybe with swampy vegetation and wildlife, and closer to a coast than not.   If you swam in a bayou, it would be warm as bathwater most of the year and your toes would sink into silty muck at the bottom, cooler and less unpleasant than you’d think.   Buttercup and