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Saturday – Reclaiming the Garden

Iris ‘Breakers’ – Front Garden, May 2010
I consider myself to be an avid gardener.  Love to get out in the dirt, nurture baby seedlings into giant flowers or veggies.  I have to admit that I’ve let my gardens go.  Lack of time once I went back to work full time and the ongoing drought sort of killed them.
However – we had rain this winter.  Serious amounts of rain.  Enough to fill lakes and recharge aquifers, and enough to revive my garden!!  I spent this entire morning digging, weeding, and tilling – about 30 WW activity points worth of work!  Yeah!  More astonishingly, I found old friends.  Perennials that I thought were totally dead and gone are pushing up leaves and blooming their heads off.  I’m flabergasted at their resilience. 
Iris ‘Painted Clouds’ – back garden, April 2010
I need some of that, especially for the days when cookies are screaming my name.
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Learning to Run Week Two Do-Over – Fourth Run

Botanic Garden Run!  There are great paths through the woods that at the moment, require climbing over fallen trees. Excellent Fun.   Not sure there was much actual running going on becase of the terrain, but I can attest to some very fast walking for a total of one hour!
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Learning to Run – Week Two Do-Over – Third Run

Did it!  Shhhhhh….don’t tell anyone….it’s getting easier.  I actually ran more than the allotted two minute stretch today.  Downhill, of course, but still more!  Because I ran more, I ended up further away from the office before I turned around and ended up with a 3.5 mile walk/run in 30 minutes!
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