This evening, I did a crazy thing… I ran for TWENTY minutes straight without stopping. Today is the last day of Week 5 of Couch-to-5K and the most non-stop running I had done prior to today was 8 minutes, so a 12 minute increase had me feeling a little queasy earlier today as I anticipated [...]
So, I knew when we got two Tibetan Mastiffs that, while they are considered “hypoallergenic” due to lack of shedding, they do have one very heavy shedding period in the spring, when they lose their winter coat (TMs are double-coated), and there are threads in all the TM groups I’ve joined that warn of this [...]
Flowering crab apple tree (at the time of this picture, the tree was beautifully tinged with pink and all the blossoms were a pinkish color and now everything is completely white aside from the “unhatched” buds still remaining):
Holly bushes! We have two, and I think this little bitty green items indicate that we do have [...]
Mae and Makai have been having a pretty fantabulous spring, as evidenced by a desperate need for bathing and distinctive coating of fur clumps all over our house (Tibetan mastiffs shed once a year, and it’s in the spring, and it’s an EPIC kind of event). They’ll both be going to the groomer on [...]
Easter was a pretty great holiday this year. I’ve never really been into it since I’m not really into the whole Christ rising from the dead aspect of the holiday, but I spent the morning in a great discussion at Merging Hearts about the origins of Easter (I particularly love the story of Ostara [...]
Check out what’s been growing around these parts! I’ve spent a good portion of time so far this April identifying what’s growing on this new property of ours.
Here’s everything I grabbed shots of in early April, starting with two shots of the buds from what we think at this point is a magnolia tree:
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