{"id":9067,"date":"2015-02-10T13:25:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T21:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/?p=9067"},"modified":"2015-02-10T15:04:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T23:04:59","slug":"552-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/?p=9067","title":{"rendered":"5\/52 – Small"},"content":{"rendered":"

Small “was” my assignment for last week. Sorry, I did not get the post up. However, I want to continue with my little project of posting, so I figured a few\u00a0days late would be just fine.<\/p>\n

I’m into my second full week of hiking. And I just love it! But it did not start out well.<\/p>\n

I’ll explain. On my first day back to hiking 5 miles, I gained a small blister. On the tiniest little toe of mine. How nice is that? Isn’t it crazy how one tiny thing\u00a0can throw a wrench into our best plans? And yes, I hobbled nearly 2 miles home that day.<\/p>\n

But look out, I was well prepared with a band-aid the next day. Don’t you know, I developed another little tiny blister on my other little toe. Now I had matching blisters. And feeling pretty discouraged, as I thought I had good hiking shoes.<\/p>\n

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The next day I took a time out. Gathered my shoes and a clean pair of socks to pay a visit to the local shoe store.<\/p>\n

So I’m in my car, half way down my street, when I see my sweet neighbors daughter jogging.<\/p>\n

So I stopped the car. Waited for her to reach me. Put down my window and the sweet lady stopped. I said hello to the nice lady and explained to her my situation and showed her my hiking shoes and asked if she had any recommendations on the type of shoe I should have\u00a0for the hills.<\/p>\n

She said all I needed to hear. She simply said “you need a good pair of running shoes and I don’t think you will ever have trouble with blisters again”. She went on to\u00a0explain that she wears running shoes for everything.<\/p>\n

And so I was off to hunt down a good pair of shoes.<\/p>\n

After trying on 9 or so pair, I found just the ones\u00a0that made happy feet. Mind you, I had two fresh blisters and no band-aids on at the time of trying on shoes. And I walked around and around the store with no trouble at all. It was a really good sign that they were meant for me.<\/p>\n

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And I’ve walked and hiking the hills and valleys happily ever after. Cheers for happy feet and to hiking band-aid free! I’m telling you, I will never forget the kindness of that gal as she was my angel that day. Running shoes is where it’s at peeps, trust me.<\/p>\n

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But for my small shot, I thought this little family of empty snail shells on my little trowel would be much prettier than blisters.<\/p>\n

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I’m having a much better week and happy to report those small\u00a0blister trials are last weeks troubles.<\/p>\n

Blessings – Debbie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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