weekend - full

A great weekend with the Love family up north. Indians game on Saturday afternoon, great food afterward; i got drunk playing spoons; church; visit to an eagle nest, great food afterward; egg hunt with the chil'ens
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[An unrelated note:]
Friday after work I went to the bike shop and bought some Pearl Izumi "Quest" cycling shorts with the padding that pretty much feels like a diaper. I knew I wanted some padded shorts for comfort but had no clue what I should get. I didn't have a chance to test them out before leaving town for the next two days and I spent that time away wondering if I shouldn't have bought them. On Sunday afternoon we returned, and as usual, I found some excuses to ride my bike. I donned my spandex shorts--and some baggy swim trunks to quell my insecurities--and took off.

I felt like I was sitting on a cloud that was sitting on two clouds. It was so comfortable.

I was so stoked about my heightened state of being--the sun was out, I was getting stuff done, and I was more than comfortable. In fact, the wind was at my back on a stretch of particularly straight and flat (if not slightly down-sloped) road. I spinned up to 28.58 MPH.
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The garden is doing really well. Sugar snap peas are exploding outside; lettuce and spinach seem happy. My transplanted oregano has taken hold. Inside, tomatoes are gigantic and hot peppers popped out this weekend. I replaced one of those butchered Spirea bushes with a hydrangea that needed more attention. I removed a nasty grapevine from my neighbor's crusty chain link fence; I divided a hydrangea planted near my gas meter and spread them out a little bit; I replanted my red-bud tree with hopes that it will get huge this summer... oh and I mowed for the first time this season.