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TreeSaw

Mama Monkey
Oct 30, 2003
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Dancin' over rocks n' roots!
I forgot to mention earlier that I killed a Copperhead last night. I almost picked it up thinking it was a stick Colin left on the back porch. That would have been a bad move.......Luckily, I got to it before Colin toddled outside behind me. I shooed him back inside and grabbed that shovel to take out Mr. NoShoulders. The disembodied head still tried several times to strike at me, so I dug a small hole and buried his ass to fertilize my hostas plants.


"Get these mutherf'ing snakes out of my motherf'ing garden!!!"
Nice catch! I grew up in Daytona Beach Florida and was always trying to catch every animal in the yard (including rattle snakes). I definitely kept my parents busy!
 

Wumpus

makes avatars better
Dec 25, 2003
8,161
153
Six Shooter Junction
from what i'm gathering it seems to be raining a lot this year as well. although the temp isn't as cold. honestly...i prefer heat to cold. i'm not too worried about that aspect of living in Texas.
They'll whine about anything around here. May is the rainy month.






WOW...that is some scary sh*t right there. especially with a little one who has no idea. glad it turned out well. i hate snakes. that's the one thing that DOES frighten me about riding in the TX trails. (cue Loco for more stories to keep me from moving) :biggrin:
Loco has been busy so I'm doing my best. Have we mentioned the mosquitoes...
 

X3pilot

Texans fan - LOL
Aug 13, 2007
5,860
1
SoMD
best thing you can do for that is something called "contrast bathing":

for 30 minutes alternate cold and heat pacs every 5 minutes, starting with cold and ending with cold. this will flood your muscle with nutrient rich blood which it needs to help recovery as well as ease the pain. the more times you can do this the better. and of course a good sports type massage would help greatly.
oddly enough, this is how they treat the "in excess of four hour" erections resulting from Cialis.

not that I'd know from personal experience.
 

cadmus

Monkey
May 24, 2006
755
0
PNW
Acutally, BJs in Colonie (we don't have Costco) has been selling hard stuff for a while and their prices are GREAT. I should go there at lunch.
I'm a big fan of BJ's at lunch, well anytime really.

Not much to report from the evening. I did make it to spin class this morning, though I'm not sure I'll be doing that much more given that it is light enough to actually ride at the time class starts.

My wife ordered up the invitations for our kiddo's first birthday party, I can't believe it's almost been a year already.
 

bitingback

Turbo Monkey
well i wrapped the knees up and went for a ride this evening. it was GREAT. i got an email from a friend asking if i wanted to ride. i wasn't going to because of the knees but how could i refuse a request. i told him it had to be "casual" but his endurance is hurtin so it worked out well. and FINALLY i had someone to take a riding photo of me. :)

anyhow there were a couple of climbs that i was in the wrong gear and could feel a twinge in the knees but it's so much fun riding that i just pushed through it and kept going. i'll ice them tonight and hope i didn't do more harm than good.

it was fun to be in the trail at dusk. what a totally different experience. good ride!! I LOVE flyin down hills. i can only imagine how exciting it would be to ride REAL DH. maybe oneday.

 

woodsguy

gets infinity MPG
Mar 18, 2007
1,083
1
Sutton, MA
anybody else surprised at how freakin COLD it's been in the mornings. i keep forgetting to close my windows from the day...this morning it was 68 in the house. :huh: texas weather can't come soon enough!!
68 is cold? That is really warm in our house. In winter our thermostat is set at 65 during the day and 58 at night. In summer we keep the a/c around 72. I would much rather have below freezing temps than 90+.