I got mail!

I got something in the mail today.



A KICKASS MIKA AHOLA JERSEY FROM MIKA HIMSELF!



Mika has a blogspot blog www.mikaahola.blogspot.com It is really awesome to see a dedicated athlete also know enough about computers to have kickass blog and youtube site.

I think I'm gonna tie a rope to the outside of the bucket and try this again but holding onto a rope outside of the bucket instead of sitting down in it. Maybe then I will get to experience the sensation of flight.

There have been vultures circling this clearing ever since we dug it out last week. Kinda makes me feel uneasy.

All my veggies are in the ground, looks like almost everything is gonna be strong and healthy.

I hit a deer

I leak

The sun came out yesterday. June 5th and maybe spring will end on a warm note after all? Either way, I was leaking like a sieve. I only ended up getting 200ft of fencing and not the 250 I had included in my calculations, so I had to rearrange my garden a bit. After moving a bed over to save some space and helping to dig a drainage berm so there wasn't a creek running through my garden my nose started to run like a kenyan.

I decided the 15 minute ride out to town was worth it for some antihistamines. I have awful allergies to grass seed and pollen and have since I was a child (my mom says I was hospitalized a couple times). I've never found relief in the late spring and early summer from these allergies so every year I try a new approach. This year I'm trying Zyrtec.

The Zyrtec hasn't totally stopped the nose run, but it has partially definitely stymied mucus evacuation in my sinuses. I haven't rubbed my eyes since I took the pill either. The big downside is that I felt like I took a tranquilizer after I took the zyrtec. I actually fell asleep around 6pm today and just woke up around midnight.

Hopefully I won't sleep the days away this summer.

living with animals

So in my move from the city to the country the things I've cherished most is the abundance of animals. It's funny even the white moth caterpillars that hang in the sun are kind of magical as well. They bob up and down on their silk and it looks like they are floating, they're getting ready to fly i guess.

I opened my front door a couple days ago and there were three deer about 15-20 feet away, reminding me the importance for quality deer fencing. I chased them off though, I don't really want my garden picked clean.

I was riding through a little section of singletrack the other day and had to come to a complete stop because there was a little kitten in the way. It didn't even move until after I stopped! Then it bounded down the path.... me in tow until it got wise and jumped only a few feet off the path and then watched me. I think I'll leave cat food outside my house at night... hopefully the wild cats go for it and not racoons.

I have a moderate case of poison oak on my arm, it's been about five or six days now and it is starting to clear up... FINALLY. I know I was exposed when we fixed the phone line and now I am so angry with myself for not doing a better job washing up afterwards.

I hit my first bird with a car yesterday. Poor little guy was too busy eating to see me coming up the road I guess. Before I got a chance to feel bad about hitting the little bird, about a quarter of a mile down the road I saw a big hawk fly across the road in front of me. He was followed by a whole crew of sparrows chasing it off. I'm sure I'll see more in the months to come.

wtf

my head is on backwards.