Stallone's director made getting in shape look like a snap in the Rocky movies. Me, I'm doing well with the elliptical, and for a moment over the weekend I was below 230. I've not been that weight in better than a decade. Today: A good run (for me) - 6000 strides in under 50 minutes. Ciao!
Continue reading...Would you scratch it for me? I'd trade her in on a working dog, especially one that does house-cleaning. But Lexi is so darned cute. * * * Today, shopping, and more yardwork. I finished dismantling and bagging the junk on the concrete pad. I'll arrange for a "large item" pickup from the trash provider sometime later this week. Very happy to have that done. I also dressed all of the garden beds with manure and leaf compost... and turned over three of them. I'll knock out the rest later this week. Overall, I managed about 12 hours of yardwork,…
Continue reading...Spring cleaning extends to the outside of the house, too. I had a pile of stuff from the dismantling and rebuilding of the front fence last fall. Y'see, by the time the fence had been rebuilt and the stain on the front-facing portions of the fence ... well, ice and rain were falling out of the sky. So I left the pile for Spring. Now, it's the time, so I took that pile, and amended my mulching/composting box. Now it looks like this: I constructed that atop the old, low (10") box I'd previously used for the purpose. Now it…
Continue reading...At least I think Spring has sprung. Of course, there was frost on the grass and rooftops this morning, and we have two more of those mornings in the forecast. But I did do some significant yardwork yesterday, clearing the winter debris and die-off from the front yard. I also did the early Spring fertilizing on the lawns. Also accomplished: not too damn much. I finished playing Bioshock Infinite, which was fun, even though I saw the ending coming from about a million miles away. Fun game, good story. Nice drive by on Rapture, right near the end, too. In…
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