Traildoggie
Cathlete
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Ha! Linda, my DH is not a farmer but this mower had been resusitated from death so many times that it became an ongoing challenge about "how long to a decent death" . one time it broke an axle and a wheel came off and we had to CARRY it up from the bottom of our lot. I held up the front missing the wheel while DH pushed. OMG. what a memory. It was included with a previous house and was not new. we lived there 5 years, moved it to the current house where we've been for 22 years. probably 30 yo parts aren't available anymore. we use it to pull the chipper/shredder and the lawn cart around so it needs to work. most people would have gone thru 3 mowers in that time, I don't think mowers are made to the standard of farm equipment. anyway, time to move on finally. got a John deere and it works great.
Joan, especially if you've been getting the hot weather, allow for some fluid fluctuation. water is heavy and when it gets hot I always hold a couple pounds of water, which drops when the weather goes back to normal. I sweat more, pee more, crave salt, and get a little water retention. just keep eating right and exercising and it will drop again.
in terms of workouts, it got really hot here too, in the 90's. so I took one day off after doing major garden stuff in the heat and yesterday did disk 23 (legs) and 24 back biceps.. that's the end of meso 2. I have very slight soreness today. I did respectable weights on the leg disk but didn't push the limits. slight soreness but not 3rd degree. I now know I need squats/lunges once a week to prevent major doms, regardless of biking hiking etc. I kind of like doing 2 disks in a day, only one warm up and I was done in under 2 hours. I wouldn't do 2 upper body ones though too much overlap. I did legs first and it flows surprisingly well.
cardio today and maybe repeat a disk on saturday. we have another 5 day vacation but too hot to hike right now. conditions will moderate over the weekend. will try a backpack sun-mon-tues-wed, not sure which days.
Deb, I kept getting a message saying "IE has encountered a problem and has to close". there was also a constant error on the MSN toolbar that would not fix. other times the screen would just lock up, not close or let me access the start button. I'm running Norton security and it doesn't show any problems. calling DELL, they just turf you off to the fee service people. so far firefox works fine and my screen is less cluttered. I can always use IE if I want but this seems to be working around the problem. this is a version of XP bought long after Vista was out (and aggravating everyone) so it's an older operating system.
window air conditioners are a pain and loud. a central unit of some sort is best. I'd give up a lot for comfort sleeping. Hope you get a solution. Ours does not cost much to operate, and it's only when it gets unpleasantly hot that we run it, so maybe 2 weeks a year. we got a heat pump because of the way it operates, it saves a huge amount on heating costs in winter(in this climate) and has the bonus of also being a cooling unit for the few days a year we need it. Life's too short to be miserable if it's something you can fix. Hope the doggie show goes well and you can sleep in an air conditioned motel!.
Josie, I am in awe that you were able to ride that much mileage. I don't think my butt could take it.
I'm always disappointed when people get boob jobs. I know there are many valid reasons why someone would want one, just feel bad that so many feel the 'need" to do it. I don't have any of the "firm" so I don't know who you refer to. One of the nice things about Cathe's crew is that everyone seems "normal" and very fit, not a bunch of matched, artificially perfect bodies/hair/make up/no sweat folks from central casting, wearing outfits no one would really work out in.
Ha! Linda, my DH is not a farmer but this mower had been resusitated from death so many times that it became an ongoing challenge about "how long to a decent death" . one time it broke an axle and a wheel came off and we had to CARRY it up from the bottom of our lot. I held up the front missing the wheel while DH pushed. OMG. what a memory. It was included with a previous house and was not new. we lived there 5 years, moved it to the current house where we've been for 22 years. probably 30 yo parts aren't available anymore. we use it to pull the chipper/shredder and the lawn cart around so it needs to work. most people would have gone thru 3 mowers in that time, I don't think mowers are made to the standard of farm equipment. anyway, time to move on finally. got a John deere and it works great.
Joan, especially if you've been getting the hot weather, allow for some fluid fluctuation. water is heavy and when it gets hot I always hold a couple pounds of water, which drops when the weather goes back to normal. I sweat more, pee more, crave salt, and get a little water retention. just keep eating right and exercising and it will drop again.
in terms of workouts, it got really hot here too, in the 90's. so I took one day off after doing major garden stuff in the heat and yesterday did disk 23 (legs) and 24 back biceps.. that's the end of meso 2. I have very slight soreness today. I did respectable weights on the leg disk but didn't push the limits. slight soreness but not 3rd degree. I now know I need squats/lunges once a week to prevent major doms, regardless of biking hiking etc. I kind of like doing 2 disks in a day, only one warm up and I was done in under 2 hours. I wouldn't do 2 upper body ones though too much overlap. I did legs first and it flows surprisingly well.
cardio today and maybe repeat a disk on saturday. we have another 5 day vacation but too hot to hike right now. conditions will moderate over the weekend. will try a backpack sun-mon-tues-wed, not sure which days.
Deb, I kept getting a message saying "IE has encountered a problem and has to close". there was also a constant error on the MSN toolbar that would not fix. other times the screen would just lock up, not close or let me access the start button. I'm running Norton security and it doesn't show any problems. calling DELL, they just turf you off to the fee service people. so far firefox works fine and my screen is less cluttered. I can always use IE if I want but this seems to be working around the problem. this is a version of XP bought long after Vista was out (and aggravating everyone) so it's an older operating system.
window air conditioners are a pain and loud. a central unit of some sort is best. I'd give up a lot for comfort sleeping. Hope you get a solution. Ours does not cost much to operate, and it's only when it gets unpleasantly hot that we run it, so maybe 2 weeks a year. we got a heat pump because of the way it operates, it saves a huge amount on heating costs in winter(in this climate) and has the bonus of also being a cooling unit for the few days a year we need it. Life's too short to be miserable if it's something you can fix. Hope the doggie show goes well and you can sleep in an air conditioned motel!.
Josie, I am in awe that you were able to ride that much mileage. I don't think my butt could take it.
I'm always disappointed when people get boob jobs. I know there are many valid reasons why someone would want one, just feel bad that so many feel the 'need" to do it. I don't have any of the "firm" so I don't know who you refer to. One of the nice things about Cathe's crew is that everyone seems "normal" and very fit, not a bunch of matched, artificially perfect bodies/hair/make up/no sweat folks from central casting, wearing outfits no one would really work out in.
