Prior to this morning if you would have asked me if life existed beyond this planet I would have answered and unequivacable "no"!!. But as of this morning I have changed my mind.........
Last year in preparing for my first Ironman I was able to balance training and the rest of my life fairly well. One of the areas that took a bit of a hit was my yardwork tasks. I didn't give our yard the attention it needs and it suffered with weeds, burned grass from lack of water etc etc. I could tell my wife was disappointed with our lawns appearance and I felt badly about it.
This year, with the help of my wife, I am determined to fix this neglected area. So this spring has been all about the yard. We have stripped, sanded and stained our deck. We have made our garden larger and planted it. I have fertilized twice and cut regularly (and tuned up the lawn mower). The flowers are planted and everything looks fantastic!!
Yesterday was the whip cream on top. We broke out our extra large QuikSet Pool and filled 'er up. Let the summer time fun begin.
I left for my Sat long run about 1:30 yesterday afternoon. I left via the back door and took a moment to survey our back yard with pride. I then went for a good 90 minute/ 9 mile long run. Upon returning I immediately headed for the back yard to soak my legs in our newly filled and cold pool (a great recovery trick if you have one). Upon rounding the corner I found our pool cover ( a tranparent plastic cover used to allow sun in and retain heat to heat the pool) neatly laid out on the lawn next to the pool. Quickly assessing the situation I concluded:
1) this was probably not good for the grass underneath it and
2) being the smart husband and father I am concluded one of my children must have laid it out here (couldn't be my wife).
So I pulled it up and put it back in our shed...............
Fast forward to this morning. I arose at 6am for my 3 hour long bike ride. I looked out our back patio door to find that ALIENS has landed sometime last night and left what I can only describe as a perfectly formed crop circle of burned grass right next to our pool!!!!!!
Good thing they didn't land a little to the right as it appears their craft was almost the exact same size as our pool.
I would have posted a picture of our new crop circle but I am afraid, if a certain someone is reading this, I may already be in big enough trouble with one of the more powerful forces in the universe........................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Lots of water and time will fix it just like new. Nothing else needed.
Been there and done that with tarps from boats
thanks fixit Alex will be placed on water patrol immediately. He can't stop overwatering the garden so this will give him something else to water.....
Damn aliens!!!
Jeff, I, too have been getting exercise both by watering and planting flowers in the yard and with double hour walks each day. The warm weather is fine, but I dread the humidity which may find its way to us on Wednesday.
Tell Alex if he runs out of places to water he can always try my flowers.
ps-Jennifer found out today that she did not make the draw for the NYC Marathon.
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