I ran 3 times in the last week. First time I've done that in, um, a while. I've also agreed to run a 10k "race" in October. My enthusiasm for this venture is about as high as my kids enthusiasm for the first day of school. They hate school. Well, the boys do - my daughter's fine with it. That's because it's full of people who understand that it's normal to talk on the phone while chatting on the computer and texting with your cell.
Max distance is still 5.5k, which I ran on the 31st - my brother's wedding day. Beautiful day. Very nice wedding. I hope his marriage is more enthusiastic than the anemic kiss he bestowed on his lovely bride - although he is such a private person, I'd have been shocked if it had been an Al Gore style tongue wagger.
Since my last post, in addition to several runs of varying success, I've moved 2 tonnes of gravel, ripped out 80 landscape timbers and nearly finished my summer project, the stepstone path. I'm at 17 of an estimated 19 stepstones made, and have learnt enough about concrete to bore anyone. The garden now looks like an enormous mess, as the formerly tidy gravel paths are dismantled, the new shape is still a work in progress, and of course it's September and dry and the plants are not at their best. Can't wait for the weekend - I didn't get much chance after the gravel moving and timber ripping to actually reshape the beds and remake the paths. With grass this time - much nicer underfoot than gravel.
The houses continue to spring up, although many more for sale signs are sticking around longer - will the US experience come to Canada? Probably in a less extreme way, but we'd be fools to think we're immune.
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