Sunset Cat

our native plants awaiting planting
Originally uploaded by stephannie_t.
Last weekend we put in the gravel, decomposed granite, mulch and plants.
We were exhausted. It took about 15 hours total (not including lunch breaks). We had to miss our duathlon, our first race of the season.
It was like being in a fishbowl. People [...]

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This has been a good week so far! I’m still happy about the PR, my workouts have been going fine, and I’ve finally broken my weight plateau and dropped another 2 lbs.
My coach is having me log my workouts at WorkOutLog; I’ve decided to make my log open to the public for viewing [...]

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Front Yard post-grass removal
Originally uploaded by stephannie_t.
We received the plants from Las Pilitas — apparently all of them except for the poppies — I haven’t been able to go through them all yet to doublecheck. They were in cardboards boxes, cushioned by crumbled newspaper, with their roots/soil bagged, and their i.d. tags [...]

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….because, unless all your knitting falls off your circular, you have everything you need to continue working on your project.
As opposed to discovering, far away from home as well as yarn shops, one of your straight needles is no longer in your knitting bag.
Hey, if it’s slow at work today I might make some progress.

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I found two antique towel rods on eBay for our bathroom from a wonderful seller.

They are thick glass, slightly tinted by age, with very heavy supports/holders.
They came from the Divine Lorraine Hotel in Philadelphia.

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After going back and forth about whether or not to RoundUp, we hired a crew to dig up our sod, deciding the risks inherent in disturbing our soil and the probable longer upcoming weed battle was worth it over using herbicides. Part of the decision was influenced by the fact we have very little weeds [...]

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We did the St Patrick’s Day 5k yesterday, and I PR’d! My watch time (hit the start button as I went over the start line) was 32:45. I took two 1 minute walk breaks at approximately mile 1 and mile 2. I finished 20th out of I think 80 in my age [...]

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After *not* making up my own training schedule (basically getting hopelessly confused and feeling over my head) I did decide to get an online coach. I chose Kelly at TriDivas. On her advice I cut out a lot of the races.
More later.

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The small fig stick is budding at its tip. All the other trees, with the exception of the larger fig stick, are also budding or flowering. The large fig stick is showing some small signs of budding.
The blueberries are potted for the time being. The raspberry and blackberry canes are in the earthboxes (temporarily) on [...]

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