It was too late to cancel my co-op farm shift to spend Wed. morning preparing for our contractor visit. Instead, Jen signed up to work with me at the last minute, and we got Aunt Sue-sue to come play with him at the farm. Most of his thrills there were related to trucks and other machines, but there were some moments of interaction with nature. ( Read more... )

I actually quite like snow, and cold, and the excuse to wear warm, silly hats. I like the naked trees in winter. I like the crunch of ice. I like shoveling and knowing that my bulbs are sleeping or stirring under a nice, warm blanket of snow. In spring I like mud and flowers and the little leaves on the trees. In summer I like being hot hot hot and ( Read more... )

New boots with awesome traction + longer days + new, warm, lightweight coat + the return of my pedometer = evening hiking ( Read more... )

Because of the flareup I've been freaking out about how I can't seem to get to bed before my internal clock thinks that it is midnight. However, I've been waking up no problem 8.5 hours later when the sun is nice and high, and that I love. Time changes are so disorienting ( Read more... )

Last year at this time I was not walking through woods all lit with yellow leaves. I was not scuffling through a wet brown carpet of leaves and feeling my hipbones move me. I was limping downtown to PT for my aching feet. I was driving to work at least twice a week, often more. Sometimes that was because I had to drive to yoga class first, but the ( Read more... )

We went to the Poconos for our 5th wedding anniversary. Despite being gone for only 3 and a half days, I really dithered over shoes. I wanted to hike, but it was supposed to be cold and rainy, and I don't really know what shoes to hike in for cold weather.

Saturday at Hawk Mountain I was dissatisfied with my choices. And because we had to park ( Read more... )

I'm still walking -- day 56 of 64 -- but lately it feels more like I'm marking time rather than taking on new challenges. My feet are still toughening up and getting used to my funny foot gloves. This slows me down considerably, though I can feel changes happening.  But mostly I'm just wiped out by the heat. The morning air is still often cool and ( Read more... )

I thought yesterday would just be a place marker day, where I walk just barely enough to count it. I thought it would be too hot and I wouldn't bother. But then I walked my love to the store and when we got there the afternoon stretched out before me, free ( Read more... )

I'm really boggling at the throb throb throbbing in my calves. It isn't a scary pain, merely a sign that I've worked muscles in an unaccustomed way. But really, when in the last 40 years did I forget how to walk properly ( Read more... )

When the book Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall hit the Indie Bestseller list, I got it for the store. I'd read an article about humans running antelope into heat exhaustion that I thought was really wild (our lack of fur and our ability to sweat helps us disperse ( Read more... )