-Re-do blog layout. –UM, FAIL, AGAIN!
-PR the bike portion of my sprint tri.—CHECK! Totally smashed my old sprint bike time.
-Design our patio.—FAIL. But we have done a lot of talking about it and bought a book on patio and terracing. Though, we are toying with the idea of expanding the deck in lieu of building the patio. Decisions, decisions. Regardless, we wouldn’t start building it until after blueberry season since we will be moving the blueberry bushes so we have some time.
-Design our terraced front yard.—FAIL, again, lots of talk but no action. We are waiting for the tree stump to rot out enough to remove it which is taking longer than I anticipated.
-Continue to “follow” the balanced tri plan—3 x per week of all three sports.—Mostly, CHECK. I’ve been taking it easy with the running still, mostly short distances nothing over 5 miles because I’m still having foot issues. However, I have been doing pretty great with biking and swimming.
-Continue dailyplating.—Semi-check. I feel off the wagon a bit here but I’ve put myself back on track with the tracking. I lost 2 lbs this month so the scale is at least moving in the right direction.
2. Mr. Pi and I have been eating lots of our meals outside in the past couple of weeks. It has made me love being a homeowner even more. It seems like every season brings a new reason to love homeownership. So far summer has made me love eating outdoors, picking peas off the vine in the garden, plucking fresh mint for mojitos and watching all my flowers bloom (especially my roses!).
Daisy's
Fuchsia
More Fuchsia
Roses!
My favorite kind of rose, the ones you think of when you buy roses at the store
Alright, I'm bucking the trend and going for a fourth thing. Last night I was jazzed to go for a medium long ride. I got home from a stressful day and went out to the garage to get my bike and the tire was FLAT. I re-pumped the tire hoping it wasn't actually a flat but not more than 5 minutes later FLAT. Ugh! So I sucked it up and started changing the tire, I got about halfway through and then I couldn't remember what do next. So, I did what anyone in the 21st century would do, I googled a utube how-to video. And 40 minutes later presto! The guy in the utube video changed the tire and plugged his bike shop all in 4 minutes but whatev's I got it done.
I got the tire off the bike and the flat off, this is where I consulted the internet.
And...DONE! All greased up.
6 comments:
The internet is a wonderful resource. Have a great vacation!
Great job changing the tire! Once my husband and I used a YouTube video to find out how to clean and slice leeks! It can be such a fantastic waste of time, but also a fantastic resource!
Your flowers are beautiful; so jealous you get to eat outside so easily! Have a great vacation!!
Oh hey, by any chance are you running the See Jane Run half marathon in Seattle?
Your flowers look great! We just expanded our deck rather than the patio we originally wanted. It's nice to have the extra space for sure.
Glad your enjoying being a homeowner!
Pretty flowers! The roses you like are called Hybrid Tea roses if you want to plant some. They take full sun to grow, but are beautiful in the yard.
To get rid of the stump: burn it out. Take a drill and put several holes in the face of the stump, as big as you can get. Fill the holes with gasoline (lighter fluid will do if you don't feel like playing with gas) and light that puppy up. Watch it burn and have a hose nearby, but it should only burn the stump out not the surrounding grass or houses. It only sounds dangerous. I've done it several times, and it works very well.
Very impressed with the tire change.
Your flowers look amazing... I'm super jealous! :)
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