wore my brooks (old old running shoes) yesterday for the first time in awhile: may have shooting pain in my calf at the moment...or maybe I am imagining it?
Anyway back to the Asics for now, and waiting a day or so before I try to run again.
Did a bit of yard work yesterday since enough of the snow has melted to see most of the yard: the people we bought this house from made some weird choices. Inside it is things like sponge-painting trim and wallpapering the front of the bathtub, outside things like decorative stones all over the flower bed that gets the most light: the one I want to put my veggies in. Seriously, lots of polished rocks--the kind you might find in an aquarium. And ivy everywhere. Not growing up the house, but somehow along the edge of the porch and invasively into the front bed. Probably about half the time I spent cleaning up was just ripping up ivy. We tossed most of the small statuary as it started to poke through the snow. Hopefully they don't come by wanting it back, their little tennis playing angel and ugly looking cat-thing are down in the depths of the dumpster at this point and I have no interest in diving in there.
21 March 2011
15 March 2011
croakies
We bought the house: crazy pants. We've been living there for two weeks and it is still a little surreal --decide at 10pm that you're going to see what the chimney in the living room wall looks like: get a crow bar and take it down, right then and there...
The chimney looks great, by the way; but the lath and plaster all over the living room floor still needs to get cleaned up.
Took the Newf running this morning.
Have I mentioned the Newf here? Before the house-buying, we went and got ourselves a Newfoundland puppy. She is 6 months old and not a natural runner.
We have that in common I think.
But she's pretty good, and comes when called upwards of 50% of the time, so that is always a pleasant surprise.
We did maybe just over a mile, down to the beach and around and then about half way back and she got tired and didn't want to run any more. Calf a little achy but not terrible, really about normal all things considered.
But yeah: House. Its a duplex. So we're operating under the hypothesis that it will lower our living costs significantly. Once we finish it. Because, yeah--the reason we could afford it at all is that half of it was gutted when we bought it. So I do a fair amount of house-related exercise: lift those bricks! Paint that wall! Or knock it down! Throw it all in the dumpster!
I can't wait for the day the renovation on the back half is done--we're living in the front half, and there are a lot of things we would like to do with it, but they're all waiting until the back half is done.
The chimney looks great, by the way; but the lath and plaster all over the living room floor still needs to get cleaned up.
Took the Newf running this morning.
Have I mentioned the Newf here? Before the house-buying, we went and got ourselves a Newfoundland puppy. She is 6 months old and not a natural runner.
We have that in common I think.
But she's pretty good, and comes when called upwards of 50% of the time, so that is always a pleasant surprise.
We did maybe just over a mile, down to the beach and around and then about half way back and she got tired and didn't want to run any more. Calf a little achy but not terrible, really about normal all things considered.
But yeah: House. Its a duplex. So we're operating under the hypothesis that it will lower our living costs significantly. Once we finish it. Because, yeah--the reason we could afford it at all is that half of it was gutted when we bought it. So I do a fair amount of house-related exercise: lift those bricks! Paint that wall! Or knock it down! Throw it all in the dumpster!
I can't wait for the day the renovation on the back half is done--we're living in the front half, and there are a lot of things we would like to do with it, but they're all waiting until the back half is done.
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