I guess I should have caught a hint about how tired I was while I was writing the post entitled Sleep Running! I have spent the last seven days on the bench, trying to heal my right leg. It has been an interesting rest period, mostly because I did not realize just how tired I was. Over the last week I got solid sleep and haven’t done much more than sit on a stationary bike and spin for an hour at a very low heart rate with a moderately high spin cadence. Interestingly, my appetite exploded during this period. I have been absolutely ravenous. And this morning the scale read 186/187 pounds, which is lower than I have seen in about five years… That is almost exactly what I weighed when Colin was born. Then, about four months after he was born, I quit working out regularly in order to dedicate more time to preparing for the sergeants exam and gained about 20 pounds. It’s been with me ever since!
I tested the leg this morning with a casual 4.5 mile run. So far it does not seem as if that put my healing in reverse at all. Maybe the activity even helped it.
With all my extra energy that I didn’t burn running 13 or 14 miles on Saturday morning, I spent the weekend getting ready to go on vacation. We are going to Astoria, Oregon, then Tahoe, and then home. We found a couple more potential properties that we might look at. One is particularly interesting.. it’s ten miles from Astoria, across the Columbia into Washington, and it is 1.5 acres with only an old shed for a structure and a dilapidated septic system. It’s appropriately priced for us ( I can’t remember exactly but I’m thinking it’s about 25K). The septic does’t scare me at all. A dilapidated septic may be all we need to go there with a travel trailer every so often. Plus, we have a tractor we could tow up there and use to improve the septic. I would be interested to know how much it costs to put a well in. That might be important. We feel that a 1.5 acre parcel ten miles from town might become closer to town in our lifetime and could potentially be sold in pieces. At least, from our experience where we live now, town seems to be coming a lot closer everyday! Even if the town didn’t grow and the property didn’t appreciate exponentially, it would still be an affordable and enjoyable vacation parking place.
In preparation for the vacation, I did some work on the trailer. It seems we had a water leak start near the bathtub on our last trip. After taking it largely apart and conducting tests, I believe it was a gasket leaking water that was running down the shower wall. The gasket was leakign the water in behind the faucet, into the wall, causing it to run out under the tub. Lots of caulk. I haven’t tested it completely yet, so it’s fingers crossed on it right now.
I also took down some of the lame mini-blinds that came in the trailer and replaced them with pull down shades. The bilnds sucked because the kids, being little, had bent them trying to peek out, and because they made too much noise whenever anyone (usually me) bumped them while others were sleeping. The blinds are going to be great. They make the kids sleeping area look like a photographic darkroom! This also helps make the A/C a little more effective….
Ok ,that’s probably more than anyone will ever read. I hope everyone had a good training weekend and nobody got hurt. Ciao for now!
Chris
I guess you better consider making certain that parcel up in Oregon has a good clear line of site to a DirectPC satellite. Because I’ll probably have to drag my family up for most of the summer if you buy something like that and work from there with a few days spent comuting into Beaverton. (My boss would love it!)
Summer would be about August 1st to the start of school
That would make me feel like it was worth the effort if that ever happened.