The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey April 12, 2014

Spring Chores

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…

Brian Bilbrey April 8, 2014

Elliptical Progress

Pushing harder

Brian Bilbrey April 6, 2014

Sprung

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…

Brian Bilbrey March 30, 2014

Spring #WTF

Yesterday: chores and such. Today: shopping, chores and such. And along with those and exercise, a startlement. I was just getting into the groove on the elliptical, when I looked up and out to see ... snow. Sigh. Really? Yup. Wasn't much, didn't stick to roads or sidewalks, but seriously I'm officially tired of snow. I want a couple of months of high 50's to low 70's. What I'm a'feared of is a direct transition to summer mode. That'll have me wishing for more snow in less than a couple of days. Here's what it looked like out the back…

Brian Bilbrey March 25, 2014

Whoops...

Frankly, I don't know what happened on Sunday. It wasn't a particularly stressful day, I got some stuff done, but not much. Not much at all since I managed also to forget to post, and continue forgetting until Marcia reminded me just now. What's been going on? Today: You wouldn't guess it was Spring already, eh? In other news, I've been a much better boy when it comes to sticking to the exercise routine this year. I picked up in earnest in early February and have been improving as I went along. Today, along with sit-ups and a few push-ups,…