My Double Bridge Run success back in February inspired me to sign up for this half-marathon. I forced myself to do a deliberate training program. Starting right after the early February Double Bridge Run, I ran 2-3 x “short runs” of 3-5 miles each per week, plus 1 x “long run” approximately every week. Sometimes … Read more
Love that name! It’s the name of our nearby you-pick strawberry farm. This post will be about our strawberry picking experience, which wasn’t quite as nice as The Vollmer Farm in North Carolina, but it has the Bellevue Berry Farm in Nebraska beat, hands down! My next post will cover the strawberry jam I made out of about … Read more
My sister Margaret and her 3 sons were in town most of last week. It’s always really wonderful when my sister’s family visits. All 5 of our boys are almost like a pack of wolves, they rarely fight, and Margaret and I can talk talk talk talk talk talk talk….. Did I mention we talk? … Read more
It’s been Spring Break here. Extremely early, I know, but allegedly my boys’ school district here had some problems with their calendar and now the timing is “off” compared to the other school districts around here. Most kids I know of are having their Spring Breaks later in March, or even in April…with Easter being … Read more
…How does your garden grow? In this location, with lots of containers! The wooden frame around the small containers was left here by the homeowner. He had made a sandbox, but never used it. He said we could use it as a sandbox…um…that’s okay. It’ll be more of a bench for our container garden. Definitely … Read more
Part II = The fauna! Springtime in Florida also means the bugs and animals are all coming out of the woods, the ponds, the ground, etc. I’ve already seen more than my share of millipedes in the yard and on my porch, plenty of mosquito hawks, and of course the birds are all coming back. … Read more
I know, it’s only March 10th, and many of my readers (I get 50 new visitors per day now, by the way!) are still sitting underneath snowpacks. But here on the Florida Panhandle, the brief winter* we had has definitely given way to spring: complete with thunderstorms, tornadoes, allergies and weeds! Things were brown when … Read more
I’d like to thank the kind young Marine pilot candidate for taking this nice picture. I gave him my 3 beer coupons in return. Like the bling? They were handing out Mardi Gras beads near one of the water stations. Today was the 15K race I’d mentioned last month. I was feeling pretty discouraged going … Read more
For those military families, you know the routine… You have a limited amount of time to pick out your new house, and there are things you just can’t know about the house until you’ve been in the house for a while… …and then it’s too late. You’ve tranferred the deed…or you’ve signed the lease. In … Read more
That’s what I’d like to think… 🙂 Especially before we had kids, Dave and I enjoyed long-distance running. Obviously, our training dwindled some after the kids arrived, and between Dave and me and our double-jogging stroller, we’d always managed 1-2 races per year even after the kids were born. Then we hit a lazy streak … Read more