Thursday, December 24, 2009

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone!


Running:
I've been able to keep up the running this week.  It seems my usual these days is about 7.5 miles or somewhere right around 1 hour.  I've been doing it on different routes to mix things up a bit.  Tuesday my 7.5 mile run was around several loops because of road conditions.  You can tell I didn't run over the two big hills I usually do because I ran it in 58:59 despite the conditions.   Wednesday I ran my usual 7.5 mile single loop course.  The roads were a bit better and the weather wasn't bad at all.  I ran this one in 1:02:23.  Today I was forced inside on the treadmill.  I actually used the iPod today which I haven't done for a while.  I ran the 7.5 miles in 1 hour.   That leaves me about 43 miles short of 1900 for the year with a week to go.  I finished up a few things at work and left for the day a bit early to get to church for the 4:00 services.  We spent a good night with my brother Tad and wife Colleen celebrating first my youngest daughter Alia's birthday, and then sharing a few Christmas gifts.   

Hunting:
Still haven't had opportunity to cut up the deer from last weekend yet.  Being off the next couple days I should be able to finish it up.  I got a call that my sausage from the last deer I got is finished.  Yummm...
Fresh summer sausage from this place is great.  


Gardening:
I guess this is the place to mention the weather.  What a mess this storm is turning out to be.  Several inches of snow, followed by freezing rain, then by just buckets of plain old rain.  I have to get the roof raked off before it gets cold again.  I can see ice dam's in my future if I don't get to it.   The picture above was taken at the Rittenhouse the Saturday after Thanksgiving.  Forget the guy in the picture, see how nice this tree is!  Wow! 

1 comment:

  1. The tree in the picture is nice...no doubt about that....but guy in picture is nicest

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