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spring Archive

Sometimes a workout isn’t just a workout

Six-thirty comes early on a Saturday.  Rolling over and going back to sleep takes a bit of resistance.  Not quite strength, but nothing short of strong will. As the alarm went off this morning I realized two things — this was the second time I’ve set an alarm since leaving Discovery and I really hate WYPR [...]

Come on Springtime

The hacking started sometime around the 22nd of November.  Coughs and phlegm punctuate our conversations. One of the three of us has been sick for the entire month of December.  The days are short, the weather is cold, and I’ve not been on my bike since November 7th.  This is becoming a drag. That ride [...]

Spring, 2010 Style

And it’s sure been a cold, cold winter And the wind ain’t been blowin’ from the south It’s sure been a cold, cold winter And the light of love is all burned out It sure been a hard, hard winter My feet been draggin’ ‘cross the ground And I hope it’s gonna be a long, [...]

A long road to the garden

It’s been a long road to the garden.  I bought seeds back in March and hoped to get them in the ground by mid-April.  I planned three beds and had bought wood to frame out two.  During that wood purchase, I broke the window of my car, which put an end to the building exercise. [...]

Garden Beds

Well, I’ve been a little behind schedule due to my Achilles…but I managed to cobble together my garden beds two weekends ago, and filled them with dirt this past weekend.  I ordered topsoil from a local nursery.  It was anything but TOP.  I was a bit disappointed.  I did some more research and found that [...]