Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made yourself,

and we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain.

So, Eva and I were out for a walk the other day.

It was an afternoon walk.

We were walking along one of the paved trails alongside a lake near our community.

The paved trail ends, and then we're walking in, that's not really a field, but we're walking

in grass. And then there's a sloping hill towards a stream.

There's a little wooden bridge.

It's a handmade bridge.

In fact, we know the guy who made it, who lives nearby.

He said, you know, oftentimes that stream is dry, but when it rains and there's some water

rolling through there, you can't cross

the stream. So he made this wooden bridge, and so you can cross the stream and then up the

embankment to the other side. Well, we were on that wooden bridge and noticed there were a lot of

pine needles and leaves on one side, which was acting as a dam. I've crossed the bridge.

I'm heading up the other side, and I notice Ava has stopped. She's got a stick, and she's

starting to move those pine needles and the leaves, starting to break up that dam that was

holding back the water, most of the water.

At first, it looked like it would be an easy fix, an easy thing to do, but it was wet, it was clumped together, and it wasn't moving quite as easily as she thought, so I grabbed a stick

and I'm pulling the leaves and the pine needles, moving them away.

And then the water behind this dam of pine needles kind of breaks through and goes rushing under the wooden bridge.

But it wasn't a lot of water, by the way.

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