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Spoopy Season
Oct. 25th, 2021 08:27 amRemember, it only takes a little thought and preparation on your part to turn any fall hayride into a haunted hayride! Let's get out those axes and chainsaws and create some (traumatic) memories!
I'm more than ready for another cold front to come through. It'll be in the 80s daytime, 60s night when we're running at Disney but that's similar to the weather we've been training in here. Plus, it's only the two races so I'm trying not to overthink things. But I'm very prone to overthinking everything, so that's not going very well.
Once we get home, it'll be time to start an accelerated marathon training program so I can be up to the Dopey distance by January. As usual, I'm not trying to set any personal records there, just cross the finish line under my own power. There's talk of the Spring Surprise series having a full marathon, so Fox and I are probably going to sign on for that. It would be cool to get to be one of those "perfect runners" we see sometimes. For example, this will be the tenth Dopey (my fifth) and there will be a few folks who have run all ten of those. Aside from a special color of bib I'm not sure what being "perfect" gets you aside from bragging rights, but I like bragging rights.
The crows are starting to visit my feeder again! I think they're in a small winter roost just to the west of my yard - where the road curves around in an S shape, there's several acres of pine forest. I just wish my neighbor's pit bulls would quit coming over here. I chase them off every time I see them, but so far all they've learned is to run when they hear a door open. Right now it's a squirrel party - Tank seems to have died, but there's another large gray squirrel who's bossing everyone else around. Not as big as Tank was, so maybe we should just call him HumVee.
I started reading Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things since it's almost Halloween and I like a good ghost story. The edition I have is one I bought in Tokyo, and its listing specifies that it's not to be sold outside Japan. I have no clue if there's a text difference in the editions, and some info I found suggests that the reason for that is copyright and who owns Hearn's papers. But I tracked it down in a book shop in Roppongi, and the guy wrapped it up all neatly, which was nice to watch, but then I felt bad about wanting to open it and read on the train, so I ended up waiting until I was back at the hotel. I really need to go back to practicing my Japanese. Lazy Raven.
Anyway, I'm doing my last yard mowing of the season today. I plan to drop the cutting deck as low as I dare, cut the whole thing, do the trimming, then put all of that away until spring.
I'm more than ready for another cold front to come through. It'll be in the 80s daytime, 60s night when we're running at Disney but that's similar to the weather we've been training in here. Plus, it's only the two races so I'm trying not to overthink things. But I'm very prone to overthinking everything, so that's not going very well.
Once we get home, it'll be time to start an accelerated marathon training program so I can be up to the Dopey distance by January. As usual, I'm not trying to set any personal records there, just cross the finish line under my own power. There's talk of the Spring Surprise series having a full marathon, so Fox and I are probably going to sign on for that. It would be cool to get to be one of those "perfect runners" we see sometimes. For example, this will be the tenth Dopey (my fifth) and there will be a few folks who have run all ten of those. Aside from a special color of bib I'm not sure what being "perfect" gets you aside from bragging rights, but I like bragging rights.
The crows are starting to visit my feeder again! I think they're in a small winter roost just to the west of my yard - where the road curves around in an S shape, there's several acres of pine forest. I just wish my neighbor's pit bulls would quit coming over here. I chase them off every time I see them, but so far all they've learned is to run when they hear a door open. Right now it's a squirrel party - Tank seems to have died, but there's another large gray squirrel who's bossing everyone else around. Not as big as Tank was, so maybe we should just call him HumVee.
I started reading Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things since it's almost Halloween and I like a good ghost story. The edition I have is one I bought in Tokyo, and its listing specifies that it's not to be sold outside Japan. I have no clue if there's a text difference in the editions, and some info I found suggests that the reason for that is copyright and who owns Hearn's papers. But I tracked it down in a book shop in Roppongi, and the guy wrapped it up all neatly, which was nice to watch, but then I felt bad about wanting to open it and read on the train, so I ended up waiting until I was back at the hotel. I really need to go back to practicing my Japanese. Lazy Raven.
Anyway, I'm doing my last yard mowing of the season today. I plan to drop the cutting deck as low as I dare, cut the whole thing, do the trimming, then put all of that away until spring.
