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nice uneventful drive with extremely light traffic. could hardly believe it. 11 hours . all looks ok. im tired today, no way am i functional on the first day. going to work on the weed problem. being a holiday weekend road construction .... as Cathy has mentioned..... could be a problem...

Shannon, he is staying here and guarding the house. this is not a relaxed trip. we need to do a range of "house things" including spray the driveway. its a big project. the weeds, mostly Russian thistle aka tumbleweed grow fast and nasty. you cannot pull them out even when very small...

A ride again this morning, this on road bikes our usual 15 miler. 1 hr 15 minutes. planning on leaving sunday so getting things organized. i like to take a lot of groceries along since after driving 11 hours we dont like to have to drive 60 miles the next day to and from a grocery...

carolyn i had the first oven , a whirlpool, for several years. (this house was designed to have a wall oven and a separate cooktop). thats GE. it was a combo wall oven/microwave. big mistake. the microwave went out with no way to fix it, so DH and I pulled the whole mess out of the wall and...

had a good ride this morning, an hour and forty minutes. they have whacked down a lot of trees in areas we used to ride, leaving a mess thats not rideable. sometimes they create new roads and its easy to get lost. we are getting the feeling they are trying to discourage bikes. they...

Shannon that's exactly what im talking about! I had problems before but they were deniable. when we got back to the car I felt ok again but we talked on the way home, a long difficult drive, about what i had to do next. it really wasn't over yet. before getting the pacer they...

yesterday I did a 30 min spin and all therapy work. this morning we did a 80 min walk, with DH all braced and doing ok. women have more health care needs younger than men. we get used to seeing health care professionals. what totally knocked me for a loop was a pacemaker at a fairly...

Cathy he is finding out quickly that he can make other areas sore using a brace but stops before its an issue. we are expecting the final brace this week but its coming fed ex and we dont have tracking. he sees surgeon this Friday & i cant tell you how much I am looking forward to that...

We did our park walk this morning with DH using his temporary brace. seemed to help but it switches the stresses elsewhere so probably not good long term. took an hour 23 minutes going a little slower than usual its 2.5 miles with hills and a bathroom stop and a couple chats a...

got busy today after rain cancelled our walk. did a 10 min warm up on the spin bike, then therapy work. then first half of stacked upper body plus 20 min on the elliptical. i threw in a few more stretches and push ups. we were supposedly behind on rainfall for the year but not after...

Shannon we've had adventures with moose too! we always ended up in the Yellowstone area so we bought some land and eventually built a vacation house there. before MT became" the last great place", things were affordable. wish now we'd done it sooner. we have walked past moose who were...

we did a road ride this morning, an hour and 20 minutes. no ducks to be seen this time. what DH is finding is that if he stays off direct pressure on the knee that he feels pretty good. Thanks for your kind words!. he is not a good person to rest. he is getting a brace today...

Did stacked upper body yesterday after a 10 min spin as a warmup and also my regular therapy. DH is going to almost certainly need a knee replacement partial or total, we will see when we see the surgeon. the meniscus tore loose and is not likely fixable. maybe if we were 30 but not at...

Shannon i actually didn't stop. it happened so fast I didnt miss a single pedal stroke. there was this flash of a deer head in front of me, very close, and it was gone. i heard the hooves jamming into the asphalt. DH was behind shouting if I was OK. looked like a collision would happen...

Judy i downloaded open office because i need a word processor program occasionally for simple things. what im looking for is a way to alphabetize a list. ive been looking for 'sort" and anything that will organize things in A to Z way. I used to use WordPerfect and never learned Word...

Good morning. we rode the regular trail this morning for 15 miles. took a little longer because we are paying close attention to the population of common mergansers. found two again this morning, sitting on gravel bars one on a creek another on the river. assume they have nests nearby...

we mt biked this morning, a bout 7 miles. first time on trails this year. felt very hard. the trail we usually come down was ok for 2/3 of the way, and then it came to a logged out section that was too hard for me. i walked it down. too dusty and steep for me at this point. maybe...

shannon we let him out of the carrier for the drive itself but when we parked to walk we stuck him back in his carrier. then let him back out for the drive when we got back. we dont want a disaster when we got back from a walk and cant see where he is. probably would be fine but this is...

our Dobie was easy to train. a regular choker collar didn't work well on him. he could tip his head forward and it slid off. we got a pinch collars with the spikes. it worked great on him. he could not dump it off and it didn't have the chain/loop sliding back and forth wearing all the fur...

dont worry about ants in montana ... they arent all over the place!. we have a big anthill on a slope above our driveway near our snow fencing. its several feet across . we are aware of it because we were working out there pounding in posts and putting up wire fence and plastic...