Obstacle course

The reason it's a bad idea to walk around my neighborhood after dark isn't that the walker risks danger of assault or robbery.  The danger in walking my street and the streets surrounding it after dark is that the sidewalks require full daylight for proper navigation.  I am trying to get back into the habit of walking a few miles every so often.  I went out with Dad in Richardson on Wednesday.  I went out in my 'hood today.

Here are just a few of the obstacles along the course:

That one in the middle is the hole temporarily filled with gravel in front of my house.  It's certainly an adventure walking around in all of that, but I can safely say that I won't miss the challenge if I find myself living in a different neighborhood at some point.  Maybe I can make that one of the criteria when I look for a new home- I can check the sidewalk conditions and make sure that they're not this crappy.