I never got on the margarine wagon, too! Vegetable (or olive) oil or butter, just use best judgement when one can use less of it.
This week looks crazy busy. Hope I will survive until the weekend and keep my sanity!
Momofwild- I had only worn my Hokas on the dirt trails until Saturday. I thought for sure that running on cement paths was going to kill me. The shoes actually felt more ‘fluffy, airy’ padded on cement than on the dirt. So weird.
Glad you liked them! I really think Hokas are a game changer. I wear other shoes, too, but the Hokas really help my legs.
Bizarre weather shift. Break in the rain for me to run outside after work- 66 degrees and humid. I’ve been wearing SO much stuff that I didn’t know what to do with myself in just a running skirt and short sleeved t-shirt! 5 miles done.
Upper body weight routine and core last night. Tonight, dreaded 1 1/2 hours of indoor cycling. Just not getting in the saddle time I need for my upcoming lunatic rides. It’s raining, washing the snow away. Temperatures in the high 40’s to mid 50’s all week but RAIN forecast for the entire weekend - and the weather people will probably get that right after missing the mark in Phila all winter.
In my idle time, I’m starting to plan out building an adult playground in my backyard. Chinning bars, high and low parallel bars, monkey bars, climbing rope, climbing net. There’s a company that sells galvanized pipes and connectors that fasten with Allen bolts that claims to have a sub-specialty in matching their products to outdoors exercise “jungle gyms”. Gotta inject more playtime in my workouts and rediscover my “inner child”! Anyone have any ideas for fun pieces that they would want in their own fitness playground?
^^^I just love that concept. Why the heck not!?
Well, my workout was boxing up essential foodstuffs from the kitchen into bins and moving coats out of closets to the basement. Condos are over-run by ServPro disaster relief teams to take care of water damage from the winter ice dams. The inspector/adjustor came today with his moisture meter. Yippee. I’m getting sections of wet sheet rock and wet insulation removed from EVERY room and EVERY closet, including the necessity of removing kitchen cabinets. One team does the demolition and drying. Another comes and fixes the mess. Lord only knows how long will be in between. I don’t really care about missing sheetrock. As long as they leave me the fridge, sink, stove, microwave, and coffee pot, I can probably survive fishing stuff out of bins on the dining room table for a while. If they really demolish the place, I can always set up a tent and a cot in the living room and break out the camp stove on the deck! Poor lady next door has all of her carpet, all of her kitchen cabinets, and piles of sheetrock stacked by the back door. Mine’s pretty minor compared to that.
I guess water ran down the exterior walls (backed up by the ice dams) and then froze solid between the sheet rock and the exterior.
My chip up bar is now loaded up with winter coats from the living room closet, so may be improvising some workouts for a while.
MKAT: I started out looking for playgrounds to do chinups, inverted rows, and Jungle Gym, but I realized that, in this day and age, an adult male at a playground is probably going to get arrested. Smart to put something in the back yard!
I’d want gool old fashioned monkey bars. Good for hanging your TRX. Good for chinups. And just hanging from them and moving from one end to the other would be awesome exercise.
IDad- that sounds horrible! My damage is limited to my study- ceiling and floor.
Wow, what an overwhelming mess you have on your hands IDad. Hope the remediation goes smoothly.
Yeah. It’s the every room/every closet aspect of this that may be most unpleasant. Fortunately the carpet and floor are dry except they’ll need to roll back the carpet in two rooms just enough to replace a foot or so of padding. So, once the sheet rock removal is done, I should at least be able to live in the interim phase. Probably get new kichen cabinets out of the deal, which will be nice.
How long are you out of commission in your study?
The crazy thing is that the only visible sign of any of this until today was one little six inch round water spot on a bedroom ceiling and a 12 inch by 12 inch water stain on a closet ceiling. Multiple other places revealed themselves today with temps near 50. The guy said they’ve been pulling sheetrock and finding 6 inch slabs of ice in the walls. My neighbor was thinking of packing up and heading to a hotel. I don’t think I’ll be that disrupted.
Oh my, idad! What a pain. I imagine your kitty is very stressed, too.
I’m not sure how long it will take, but it won’t be a big problem since I’m at work all day anyway.
Scaredy Cat is OK. Little Bubba, Jr. hightailed it for the closet in the basement and stayed there for hours. Once the workmen arrive, I expect the little guy to spend days down there before coming out of the closet again. 
idad, that sounds awful. As if the never-ending snow wasn’t enough!
The memories that winter weather leaves behind, right iDad??
That sounds horrible, iDad. I’m always amazed by what a good attitude you have about things! I could not be as good humored about it as you are.
Warm here this morning - 60 degrees and humid air. Exercise was a vigorous dog walk which was enjoyed by all - we have lots of mud which the dogs enjoy every bit as much as the snow. Got my bending and twisting cleaning their paws.
My neighbor has spent over $3000 so far this winter getting her roof shoveled off and dealing with ice dams. We’ve been lucky - had a little water come in one kitchen window, probably from the skylight. After I climbed out there, cleaned it off and hammered off the ice dam, the water stopped. Just put a new roof on in the fall, so I guess it did its job. It’s clear I need to add some insulation in the attic to try to prevent the ice dams in the first place.
It’s supposed to get up to 58 degrees today, which will probably melt off most of the remaining ice. Definitely getting outside for a walk today.
4.31 miles run/walk this morning. Quite a struggle, but it’s done!
46 degrees and sunny right now – whoo hoo!!! Lot’s of melting going on. Bummer about the ice dams, idad. H and I are going to RI this afternoon for 1 night to check on the house, H’s boat, etc. We’re SO thankful we went with the architect’s recommendation to do a metal roof – everything just slides off. We don’t anticipate any problems or having to even think about re-roofing, etc during our life times.
Third time running outside this week! Getting spoiled!!!
From January till now, weather has prohibited running outside- as a result I was running inside on track/dreadmill. I also subbed in some cardio classes in the form spinning, step and cardio mix-up class. I enjoyed the variety! I’m thinking I will try to still sub in one day a week of a class with the outdoor running - and of course, my method - some days off. Seems like the right thing for me to do right now.