Spring Waxing Flower Moon
Kate called from the Northstar. She arrives in Anoka at 5:52. She took the light rail to Target Field and caught the train home from there. Feels like living in Connecticut. I’m glad to have her home. This is a two-person house and needs both of us to make it run smoothly.
Got the results of the fitness assessment I did last week. The heart rate thresholds were not very dissimilar from the ones I had been using, though the max is about 10 beats higher and the mid-range of low is about 3 beats higher. I got some good recommendations on how to modify my aerobic work and, as I hoped, the whole experience gave me a jump start back to the more comprehensive workout I had been doing before Christmas. It involves flexibility, muscle warmup and stretching and resistance. I kept faith with the cardio, but I’d let the other stuff slide.
Spread more compost and worked it in. I’m almost ready to plant. In fact I may plant tomorrow morning before I amend the soil in the next bed, the one with the garlic and the lilies. The garlic and onions and parsnips look healthy, as does the asparagus and the strawberries. The bed for the leeks and the sugar snap peas and the bok choy needs some weeding and some soil amending, too. In the next day or two I should have all the transplants and seeds in that go in now. Just got word that the potatoes are on their way, so I have to get some more composted manure for the potato/bush bean bed.
Last night I did research on four of the ArtRemix objects and I’ll finish all 8 of them before Friday. The tour itself is not until May 7th. Thrashing around the enlightenment, romanticism, modernism, Liberalism, post-modernism, Vico and Rousseau. I want to arrive at a synthesis between enlightenment thought and the thought of its primary critics, those in the romantic family of thinkers: Rousseau, Hegel, Kant, Vico, Burke, Hume. Maybe somebody else has done it, but I want to do it my way.