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Post by autumnmist on Sept 21, 2020 12:06:30 GMT -8
walkswithblackflies , I guess no one can say that you didn't provide entertainment to your observers, unfortunately at your expense. Ouch! Do you have a lot splitter? A former neighbor of my father's heated almost entirely with wood, got cords delivered in the Fall and spent the time between then and Winter splitting them, with a power log splitter. The other neighbors knew that their weekends would be dominated by the sound of that motor running for hours. Some of them were glad when he moved up north.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Sept 21, 2020 12:19:28 GMT -8
Do you have a lot splitter?
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Sept 22, 2020 11:53:06 GMT -8
There was a dead deer on the road on the drive into work today. It looked like it exploded. Glad I didn't ride my bike today, or I would have had to ride through pieces and parts.
ETA: A "thanks" to the highway crew who cleaned up the mess yesterday, making this morning's bike commute less putrefying!
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Post by toejam on Sept 25, 2020 9:29:01 GMT -8
Hope everybody has a great weekend!
I was supposed to be working trails and bagging peaks this weekend, but the forest is closed. Have to find another form of entertainment.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Sept 29, 2020 5:09:56 GMT -8
I did a long hilly ride on Friday after work, and I think I pushed it too much (cumulative). On Saturday morning, while my daughter was prepping for her horse show, I went for a near-by trail run. Cardio was OK, but my legs felt like they were made of concrete. Other than splitting some wood, I was a slug on Sunday. No energy, and no desire. {my daughter finished 3rd}
Yesterday morning was more of the same. It was also warm/humid for this time of year, which I think contributed. By lunchtime, I was feeling close to 100%. I wanted to check out a newly cut trail (that I helped on a couple weekends ago), so I went out for a run after work. I felt good, and the trail was nice. I ended the run on a golf course, in the moonlight. It was pretty much perfect.
Last night, out of the blue, my left knee started hurting/stiff. That continued early this morning, but it seems to be loosening now.
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Post by echo on Sept 29, 2020 9:57:21 GMT -8
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Sept 30, 2020 7:00:58 GMT -8
where it’s bad, it really burned everything Wow. That's going to be an erosion problem for the near future.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Sept 30, 2020 7:02:26 GMT -8
Last night, out of the blue, my left knee started hurting/stiff. That continued early this morning, but it seems to be loosening now. My knee loosened up throughout the day and I ended up being able to run 5.5 hilly trail miles without a problem. But now I wonder what aggravated it in the first place? I needed to take my husband through to see an orthopedist about having both knees replaced Yowza. I won't complain about my knee problem anymore.
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Post by echo on Sept 30, 2020 7:18:34 GMT -8
Good Morning You are welcome to complain about your knees. Just because someone else hurts doesn’t invalidate your own issues. When he has a knee that messes up but then gets better, it has been a small bit of cartilage that tore off and floats around, causing trouble each time it lodges in the joint until it works it’s way out again. Greg has had issues since a motorcycle crash at 15 left one leg in a cast for 9 months while the other leg grew. That length discrepancy really tweaked knees and hips and now at almost 60 the x-rays show both knees at bone on bone. At nineteen he had surgery to lengthen the bad leg, but still only gained an inch and a half of the three it was shorter.
It’s been hot here the last two days. Not just Coast hot (70 degrees) but actual three digits in the shade hot. And smoke thick air.
I had to take a shower at 1AM before I was cool enough to be able to sleep but now we are 13 minutes from the start of virtual school. So the girl and I are snuggled up together for ten more minutes on the loveseat
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Post by autumnmist on Sept 30, 2020 16:29:06 GMT -8
walkswithblackflies, did you ever suffer a meniscus tear in your left knee? Even if you did and it healed, I've found that a tear can start hurting again under certain conditions, specifically weather and stress related. I consider my knees "skeletal early warning systems" for stress and changing weather.
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Post by rebeccad on Oct 4, 2020 2:43:48 GMT -8
About time someone had a good morning here, so here it is. I’m up, and about ready to hit the road again. If I’m up for it, I’ll reach my destination in Maine today. If I’m tired, or the weather is good and I want to see the mountains, I’ll stop somewhere and hike and camp. Yesterday I saw Niagara Falls in a drizzle.
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Post by echo on Oct 4, 2020 8:43:02 GMT -8
If you do Niagara Falls right, you always see it in a drizzle. If you don’t come away at least a bit waterlogged have you even been there? OMG. I had to reword that line about seven times trying to avoid being sent to OOC thread. Wet, damp, moist? It was -xxx- difficult.
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Post by rebeccad on Oct 4, 2020 16:48:10 GMT -8
If you do Niagara Falls right, you always see it in a drizzle. If you don’t come away at least a bit waterlogged have you even been there? OMG. I had to reword that line about seven times trying to avoid being sent to OOC thread. Wet, damp, moist? It was -xxx- difficult. ROFL. For the record, I made it to my friends’ house in Maine in time for dinner . I’m off the road for a while now.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Oct 5, 2020 5:49:18 GMT -8
walkswithblackflies, did you ever suffer a meniscus tear in your left knee? Even if you did and it healed, I've found that a tear can start hurting again under certain conditions, specifically weather and stress related. I consider my knees "skeletal early warning systems" for stress and changing weather. Actually, I did... back in high school. I had totally forgotten about it.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Oct 5, 2020 6:03:02 GMT -8
A couple of photos from my trail run yesterday. The fall colors are really coming out now. The photos don't do it justice.
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