Training Log Archive: Yukon King

Tamarind is behaving so well, pulled it out of jungleroom and it's all gorgeous and new growth everywhere, so I rewarded it w/ a bath, some top-dressing, AND some fertilizer, now it looks even happier. Plumeria are leggy, will consider cutting back... if only guava & pomegranate would behave a bit better...poor things, they really are not the best pot-plants for north of 48.

pretty warm today so we headed in very lesurely fashion for the woods, down the bike path, parkway & up the top bit of stairmaster. Took over an hour & a half. Met Eight Ball's owners who are scouting real estate, & played alot w/ Tischa, G banged her chin pretty hard on the asphalt trying to take too tight a turn & losing it. Made quiche (sundried tomato-broc-shroom) for picnic tomorrow. Also potato/zucchini/onion/shroom skewers for second picnic tomorrow.

oooh, two puppy walks & a big long trot over to Metrotown on the train to stock up for the trip with my little pull-cart that I can pull like a sled-dog (well, it rolls not slides but it has a chest strap from MEC to transfer the load from my feeble wrists to the strong body core) - 2.5km
chomped down a tylenol sandwich, rested a bit, * took Gyp for a feeble shuffle around the neighborhood -0.9km
then after dinner at the Keg (mojito, salad, tempura asparagus & snowpeas, & creme brulee) w/ Alfie D & I took the dog out for her evening walk together, met Teak, her other HUGE boyfriend. - 1.1km

not sleeping so great these days, so wrote out proper lists for trip to Island, Whistler, & Vernon next week, now I feel more organized & hopefully will stop waking up to make notes on forgotten stuff. Popped my R knee this AM, gah, feels funky again. Gah.

checked on blackberries behind Cortina, then went for a drink at the Taylor Park water fountain. Berries still have a week or so to go. R knee actually seems good.

cuz it is hotter today we went in the woods down the creek in the shade, & spent a bit less time outside but moved around more. Most of the way down G-dog was fascinated by a dead cherry tree, & then these two baby TINY silky black squirrels were just SCREAMING and flailing at the base of it, & the mama was chuk-chukking away up by the nest-hole. They were so pathetic and completely distraught, just lying on the ground screeching. We hurried off, but I snuck back by myself afterwards & I THINK the mama was able to calm them down and lure them back up the tree cuz they weren't at the bottom anymore (there were some broken mushrooms where they had been lying) & no bits or fur or anything... I hope they are OK.
Now I gotta scurry about & get smoked salmon pasta w/ peas & zucchini along w/ some yummy white-trash chard greens cooked up. Plus some lahdidah goat cheese N crackers.

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went out for evening walk, this time to retrieve dog from D during his evening run - she can't run the full length yet cuz her joints are still a bit squishy being under a year old, so I grabbed her leash from him at the Rocks, about a quarter of the way thru, did our "bidnis" (cuz ya can't do that when yer a happy lil maniac runnin' dog), & home.

well, all that eating hasn't shifted my weight much... Thai curry w/ tofu & fridge-cleansing mix of veg for dinner tonite. probably another trip to Taylor park, our favorite bench, & yet another dog-picnic today since temps will still be low today, only about 25...

to the park. I LOVE summer...
saw Bruno but his ma decided he was being naughty & thus was going to miss out on chewing G's head today. Poor Bruno.
G sure likes "The Big Boys" - a chow (Bao), a chow cross (Tischa), a pit bull (Chevy), & a boxer (Bruno).

to calm the cranky dog (and apparently also to stop Gerbil-wife from doing evening-gerbil around house after dinner) we went out to Central Park and walked around a totally new area for G - pond, stream, volleyballers, picnickers, badminton, the new (and very dignified) Korean monument, sunset...

two walks today, one to Taylor to sit in the sun (I get darker, the dog gradually bleaches lighter, from red to gold) - this time we went around the base of the park before sitting at the street hockey enclosure. Bao came by & chewed G's head. Then in the evening Tischa chewed G's head too, so it was a really fine day overall.
Excellent vegetarian lasagna w/ Yves' Vegetable Ground Round, works really well !! Did a pumpkin cake which crashed cuz I used 1/2 tsp instead of 1 tsp measure for baking soda, arrrggghhh. I think flavor is good tho, will try it on Dennis to seeif I should make it again.
Blackberries almost ready to pick!

early afternoon up to the base of Pitt Lake to assemble our Ally canoe, stick dog in it, & paddle across to Widgeon Creek, wow is it ever great up there! I wanna go up to the campsite at the top of the creek next time, about twice as far. But we had to get back to Grant Narrows before 6:30 to cook dinner so we turned around after about an hour of paddling (well, D paddled, I waved my paddle at the water periodically).
Grilled naughty italian sausages, corn on the cob, & skewered vegies while D took the canoe apart, then toasted big slabs of grainy bread on the coals as we ate, & strawberries afterwards. Good sunset, all of us were exhausted when we got home and fell right into bed/kennel.