going silly with the slightly deranged....

Happily for Phill and I,  my brother is staying with us, as he works in our area for awhile.  Today we took him today to Salt Creek.  Salt Creek is the pathway down to the ocean.  It was just before sunset, and the magic hour was tinted in pink.  Rather overcast, but spectacular to say the least.

 We are having a great afternoon slowly making our way  down the concrete switchbacks and then down the 12o steps. Taking in the beauty and the.....what? Oh come on, now what?  

What is that in the distance on the beach? It looks like a man in a diaper...no wait a minute, he looks like the strongman at a circus. But rather, diminutive in height and on the pale side of never seeing the sun.  His black shoes and black calf high socks framed his slightly bowed legs.

The closer we came to him, we saw that he was running in his underwear.  Soggy white boxer shorts with a black waistband.  Somehow we all understood that he was cwazy, and we were thankful to have a steep wall of rocks separating us from "Cap'n Soggy Bottoms." 

His erractic behavior  had us keeping an eye on "Soggy Bottoms".  Beachcombers, runners and families down on the beach were making huge walking arcs around him; for good reasons we were sure!

As we were reaching the end of the walkway,  in the distance we hear the distinct 'whop whop whop' of helicopters.   We were searching the sky, and at that point they could only be heard not seen.  Suddenly, two large military helicopters emerge from around the mountain range and follow the beach along the coastline.  

We are in awe, then in utter shock as we see that "Cap'n Soggy Bottoms", (insert "ly" verb here)__________ly turns to the sky and gives our courageous military men the double bird.  We were in  hopes that the copters would have  swooped down and (insert verb here) _______ed him.  

It was  time to climb back up those 120 steeper than ever stairs, to the impossibly steep switchbacks.  Phill is way ahead of my brother and I. He looks back and he sees "Soggy Bottoms "starting to jog up to the steps. Phill then gives me the high sign, that I better get a move on...I was  hurrying,  scurrying , while my heart was thumping out of my chest, my breath was coming out in gasps, hoping against all hopes that no way on the face of the earth would our paths~ be it either the boogens, your worst nightmare, "Cap'n Soggy Bottoms" ever cross.

  I don't know how we did it, but somehow our high alertness and not wanting to be in the same space as that circus reject,  got our adrenaline flowing us right up into the safety of our locked car.   

Never a dull moment!  I was glad I wasn't alone.   Once locked safely in the car,  we all started laughing about what a crazy world we live in! Also, very thankful that in our lifetimes we never ran anywhere in our underwear. Ever!