Garden chores heating up

Running:
Well another week since my last post.  I guess my motivation for posting more often is not there at the moment.  I notice this same thing seems to be happening to a few of my blogger friends as well lately.  I ended up not running any race last weekend.  The weather Saturday was cold and very windy.  I just couldn't get motivated to run 26.2 in that.  One of the things about not signing up ahead of time is it's easier to back out.  As usual looking at the results of both the 50K and marathon after the fact I should have done one of them.  The times for the winners in my age group were not very good.  Probably could have done quite well.  Anyway I didn't run so more power to those that did.  They beat me.  

Last week I pretty much treated a a taper week.  Not running any race I guess there is benefit to using it then as a cut back week.  I only managed 36 miles which is one of my lower totals all year.  Two days off and no long run.  Wednesday 5/5 I got out for 6 miles in 46:44 during lunch.  Thursday a non hilly 4 miles in 30:54.  Friday was an off day.  Saturday after getting up early for one last check of the weather I went out for 10.5 when I decided I would not race that day.  Ran it in 1:24:54.  Sunday I ran the exact same route in 1:26:12.
Monday I ran 7.5 again during my lunch break in 1:22:39.

Hunting:
I noticed last week that the DNR has come out with the deer season framework for 2010.  There will be less tags available for antlerless deer in the north.  Looks like I will have to purchase additional tags for Bayfield (area 3) instead of the free ones offered the last several years.  I was able to score a set of silk weight base layer (top and bottoms) for over 60% off from the Camofire.com site this past week.  I watch this site every day, but have only bought a few times.  Good deals sometimes if you can use the item.  

Gardening:
Gardening chores are really heating up now.  I planted about 10 more small trees which will be used as Christmas trees down the road.  I noticed a few nests of tent worms on the fruit trees.  These were sprayed to kill them.  Two of the past few mornings there was heavy frost here.  I covered a few things such as the strawberries just in case.  I'm worried about the fruit trees though, especially the peaches and cherries that the fruit will freeze out.  I finally got the potatos and onions planted.  This is a good couple weeks earlier than I've done it in the past few years.  That's good though as I've been a little late with them.  This past week I also had another muskrat trying to take up residence in my pond.  I really don't know why they find this small space so attractive.  The dog did another good job helping me get rid of it.  Lots of different kinds of birds are hitting the feeders the last couple weeks.  I put out oranges for the orioles too.  I have not seen any of them this year yet, but I do have a couple birds eating on them.  As of yet I haven't positively identified what they are.  I think I need a better bird book.