Phooey. I was supposed to run 3 miles yesterday according to my training calendar, but I ran at 4:00, so it was hotter than when I've been running lately in the evenings, so I only made it to 2 (and that with some walking). So I ran 2 miles again early this morning to make…
Woo hoo! I made it to 3 miles in last night's run! It took me 40 minutes, so I'm not setting any land speed records, but I felt pretty good. I think I'll make it to 5 miles by race day… Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Tonight my race training schedule prescribed a 30-minute walk, so I decided to walk the nature trail behind the school. On my way back through, when it was beginning to get dusky out, I startled a deer which leapt away from the trail. I stopped and stood still, and so did the deer, about 20…
Ben & Jerry's Crème Brûlée ice cream. Oh my. Vanilla, caramel, little bits of carmelized sugar… Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Laura McCormick Day My paternal grandmother's maternal grandmother. We had a family reunion this weekend, where we met lots of family we'd never met before, and some we hadn't seen in years, all great people! Such a fun weekend! None of us had ever seen this photo, which was brought to the reunion (along with…
Mt Pisgah A view from the cottage we rented for a week in the North Carolina mountains… This vacation completely emptied my brain, which is a good thing now and then. Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Yeah, it only took 6 months and I-don't-know-how-many trials, but I finally got 2 loaves of what I would call pumpernickel. AND they stayed moist and edible for several weeks in the fridge! I ended up using basically a recipe in "Naturally Great Foods", a Rodale Press cookbook I've had for over 20…
Happy Earth Day! What are some of your favorite ways to reduce, reuse and recycle? I've driven a Honda Civic Hybrid for the past 4 years (people are probably sick of hearing about it, but I love my little car) We compost vegetable scraps / leaves etc (have been doing this since I was a kid – it means…
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Today was a gorgeous day, so I spent a few hours this afternoon cleaning out the asparagus bed to make room for this year's delicious stalks. First to go were the old-growth stalks, I think from two years, because I recall having to push them aside last spring to get at the new growth. One…
Where have the days gone? 