Finally posted pictures from Memorial Day hiking and Leavenworth Bouldering trips on here – look to the right for the links!
I’m sitting in the dark of my living room. A brand new pedal-less road bike stands upright next to me, waiting for me to teach myself how to install the clipless pedals and then cleats on the special bike shoes. A plate of partially finished spaghetti and sauce and canned green beans sits next to me, a meal from my tenants who decided to share their extra dinner. It’s raining outside (surprise, surprise) but it’s a nice rain. A nice spring rain. The green leaves on the two maple trees in my front “yard” have finally sprung forth from their buds, nicely framing my blue-gray house and the white-trimmed deck. It’s 8:24 p.m. and it’s still light out.
You’d think after spending the past three days outside, the rain would be a bummer, but it’s almost a nice reprieve. It’s forcing me to be inside and feel cozy, rather than feel guilty for not being outside and weeding weeding weeding like I should be. Not that there aren’t small voices of the house nagging at me (clean the bathroom! Reorganize the garage! read over your re-fi documents! make that doctor’s appointment! turn off the damn computer! Put away the gear mess that is on your living room floor! Research summer vacation! Budget out that bathroom remodel you want to do! Research more Scuba gear!)
oh so many things. Yet, I’ll probably ignore it all (again) and settle down with a Girl Scout cookie and a glass of nicely aged Qupe for the season finale of How I Met Your Mother. But I will turn off the damn computer.
Just got back from annual trip to Walla Walla, WA for Spring Release with Randy, Mike, Erin, Jay and Margaret and a nice surprise, Kevin and Maria! Hit up about 15 wineries between Saturday and Sunday – including the lovely usual stops of Northstar, Va Piano, Longshadow, Ensemble, Patit Creek, Read the rest of this entry »
While most have put away the skis by now, snow season for me is just starting. I pretty much said “screw it” to the ski season this year and didn’t touch snow until today. The OC class held its snow travel technique class at Hurricane Ridge. In the interest of doing a little refresher practice as well as helping out where I could, I tagged along.
So a few strange events within the last week – worthy enough to note though:
Iguana tail amputation surgery. Poor Lunchbox’s tail got infected with some disease and started killing off his tail, with the disease rapidly moving toward his body. It’s not uncommon for iguana tails, at least the tips, to die and fall off, but this was strange. Randy didn’t have a choice of waiting until Monday for the Vet, so we set up a little surgery unit in his kitchen, prepped and sterilized everything. Read the rest of this entry »
So to keep myself accountable for my half-marathon training, i’m keeping my training log for the June race on here. See under “Pages.” Maybe some of you will keep me accountable too …
The feeing that I never thought would come has arrived.
It’s actually two month early. OK, six weeks early.
It hit me hard the other day. Monday morning, I believe. I was getting ready for work. I was stepping out of the shower and happened to turn toward the window. The way the light was shining clued me into the relieved feeling that suddenly came over me.
More like Recovering-From-Homebrewers-Meeting last night. Kind of like StrangeBrew in Port Townsend (pickle, cactus, chili pepper beers offered – very yummy), except last night was a bunch of dudes and their homebrews – most of which were pretty tasty. Chocolate raspberry port, some intense and not-so-intense IPAs, various Barleywines. But I think I was digging more the seven-layer taco dip and pasta salad for some reason. Tonight – off to Silvercity for some more local brew and friends. Then I SWEAR – no more drinking. At least until my weekend April 4-5 with Reba and Beth at Lake Quinault… bring on the Boones!
Also considering purchasing this bike in the near future: http://www.cannondale.com/bikes/09/cusa/model-9RWA5C.html
I’ve been riding a mountain bike with road slicks for 10 years now. As my intensity for biking has increased over the past few years, finally decided it’s time to get serious about getting a great road bike. Plus, I can’t let Reba continue to leave me in the dust with her Fuji! I’ll still use the mountain bike for trail riding on Wednesdays this summer, plus use it as a commuter bike.
For my 30th Birthday, I decided to celebrate some place warm and sunny and Hawaii seemed to be the answer! Next thing I knew, Randy and I were getting certified for SCUBA and planning our trip. Click on “The Big Island” link to the right to see the pictures and video!
Heh, so I finally joined the blogging world. To replace the http://www.everyfrog.com for now while I figure out what to do with that domain.
Tiffany Royal 