Today I basically just relaxed, since yesterday was the annual Veterans Half Marathon. I finished the race in 2:13:06, which is my slowest time of the 5 times I’ve run it, but today was also by far the coldest and windiest it has been for this race, and I’ve had a bad cold for over a week. I came really close to tapping out before mile 4 was done, because we had been running into the wind a lot up to that point. But I did plod on and finish, with only walking up a couple hills near the end. Trey and Justin from work also ran this year, Trey finished about 15 minutes ahead of me and Justin finished about 45 seconds behind me. I had no idea he was that close. The race was very arduous, and I’ve never been so glad to be done with a race before. But I now have a complete 5-year set of finishers medals, and I am done with it….I took Iris to the vet this week, since she has had some sort of lump on her chest for a little while now. Beth and I just noticed it at around the same time, no idea how long it’s been there but it must have gotten there relatively quickly. So we were concerned enough to bring her in. She almost shredded my hand trying to get her in the carrying case, so she went in a tote instead. The vet did a needle aspiration, but there was no infection and no tumor, so we’re not really sure what it is other than some sort of cyst, and all we can do is keep an eye on it and bring her in again if it gets worse….speaking of cats, one has shown up at our house. He appears to be a stray, or more precisely I think he was abandoned around here somewhere. He can't be more than 6 or 8 months old, if that, and he is not afraid of people and likes attention. He's also starving, and practically skeletal. We kept him inside since it was getting so cold, and started feeding him. I tried to take him to the shelter this week, but they are full up with cats and can’t take any more. Neither can any place that they recommended I try. So for the time being ‘Tiger’ is going to live in the garage until we can either get Iris and Ruby to accept him (they are NOT having that) or find somewhere else to take him. Laura has indicated a willingness to take him if nobody else will and we can bring him with us for Thanksgiving....Beth and the girls and I did some geocaching in Winona Lake this afternoon. Found a couple on and around the trails, but didn't find one of them out in the woods. Might have been buried in leaves, though....