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:: Monday, May 10, 2004 ::

The great outdoors
I OD'ed on outdoor activities this weekend but failed to complete everything on an ambitious agenda of landscaping and yard work. Dy and I began our landscaping work at around 9 a.m. Saturday. We were going to put edging around the new swimming pool. I thought the black plastic edging would stick nicely and neatly into the soil but ended up having to dig a trench around the pool, a miniature moat into which to fit the edging. That took most of the day. Digging and redigging, squatting, troweling, fitting the edging in, stretching the back, and digging some more. Then we sowed new grass around the outside of the edging and covered it with straw. By then it was 5:30 p.m. We didn't even get to the landscaping inside the edging.

I was stiff and tired Sunday morning. My hamstrings and calves ached more than anything else. I like to think that running 12-15 miles a week keeps me in pretty good shape, but eight hours of yard work beat me on Saturday. It was all I could do to wash my car on Sunday afternoon. I also offered to wash my mother-in-law's car, since it was Mother's Day, but thankfully she didn't take me up on it.

The stiffness remained today. This morning's run was more of a trot, but I managed to stretch out some of those aching muscles, and I'm feeling better now.

What an inane and irrelevant post this is.

:: Andrew 09:58 + ::
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