Saturday, July 25, 2009

Garbage day

Running:
Saturday is garbage day out here in the town of Ottawa. Because I didn't sleep well last night I slept in a bit late. Not wanting to miss bringing the trash up to the recycle center, I packed everything up and did this chore first today. I got out running at about 8:30am. Today when I was about to leave the wife was starting her walk with the dogs. I chose to just walk with them for about .5 miles until they turned off for their loop. I then proceeded to run 14.5 miles in 2:00:47. I wanted to get at least two hours in today. I just didn't have enough in the tank to extend the run to an even 15 or 16 like I thought I might get in. An update from yesterday on my Garmin. I noticed this morning the date/time were off by about 19 hours. No idea how that happened. I hit the reset buttons and it reset itself correctly. The software loaded in the unit knows where to look in the sky for satellites based on location and time. I'm sure this was the issue. It's now working properly.

Hunting:

Today I fixed up my stand that was damaged earlier this year. I added a couple of boards to make it a little bigger in addition to pounding the others back in. I noticed how much some of the scrub trees and bushes have grown this past year. I'll need to get out the clippers and saw to clean this up a bit before it can be used this fall.

Gardening:

Today was lawn mowing day again. Things have really greened up again compared to just a week ago. Amazing what enough rain will do. Didn't do much other than mow and pull a few weeds from the garden.

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