Daily Archives: February 10, 2015

Health, Our Land and Home

Winter Harvest

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Imbolc                                                                          Settling Moon II

New workout regimen. High intensity and resistance work MWF. Slow cardio and core work TThS. Slow cardio and core went fine today. Yesterday’s HI and resistance, harder. But it will come back. Slowly, slowly.

Just ordered Eliot Coleman’s book, Winter Harvest. It’s about the only way we can grow vegetables here, use covered beds. Gotta learn some stuff before we try to implement it. Gonna let the bees rest this year. Montane gardening will be enough of a new challenge for one year.

Becoming native to this place will happen like my workouts: slowly, slowly.

Colorado, Dogs, Our Land and Home

Beautiful

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Imbolc                                                                            Settling Moon II

Kate did such a great job finding our Black Mountain Drive home. Not only does it provide plenty of room for both of us and our various creative activities, it’s also located about half an hour from this view: Kenosha Pass, 10,000 feet.

 

On an ordinary errand, taking Kepler to Paws and Claws for grooming in Pine Junction, we just stayed on 285. It winds through a long valley following, of all things, the north fork of the South Platte River. Pine Junction is the first stoplight on Hwy. 285 headed out of Denver. This view is about another 20 minutes beyond Pine Junction. The small town of Jefferson is just off to the left, out of view here, on the valley floor.

Colorado, GeekWorld, Health, Mountains, Our Land and Home, Third Phase, Weather +Climate

Mr. Atom and Back to the Treadmill

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Imbolc                                                                             Settling Moon II

62 here yesterday. A record warm spell for Denver, not sure about up here on Shadow Mountain. Kate and I went out in shirtsleeves, looking at plants in the front, trying to decide what they were. Bearberry, I think, or kinnikinnick, which it turns out is used as a tobacco by Native Americans. A small, evergreen shrub that lies low to the ground, kinnikinnick is a ground cover I tried to grow in Minnesota but could never make last. It grows on the edge of Montane forests where it’s sunny. Just where this is.

Had the Geowater folks here yesterday testing our water from various spots in the house.Looking mostly at corrosivity and radionuclides. We have a radon mitigation system in place so the latter is not out of the realm of possibility. Corrosivity will test the ph of the water, specifically to see if our well is the source of the acidic water in the boiler.

Started my exercise regime yesterday evening. Painful. I have detrained aerobically and in terms of resistance, plus there’s the effect (complicated) of altitude. I started over after a 7-week layoff during our cruise and this is about the same length of time away, so the difficulty getting back to it is familiar, if not welcome.