"Flexibility"

It was a day of changing plans. After my bad run yesterday I had decided that I was definitely going to take the day off completely. By 9:00 I was out on my bike! I did 40 kms followed by a 5 km run. I felt still tired but not too bad...certainly a lot better than yesterday. Tomorrow I am committed to swimming only, hopefully in the lake, weather permitting. I also did my weights this afternoon.

Then this evening I started this...cleaning my bike



Note in the background, that's me on television...


But then this happened...



And this...



And though I am very saddened by the loss of 2, hundred year old trees, this was more fun than cleaning my bike...

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And so was this...





I'm glad that we just finished planting 1100 seedlings. I will also try to transplant a few other small trees to replace these. You can see that these ones were on there way out anyway. The trunks were mostly rotten inside. They are 2 of a row of 7 beside the farm laneway. Considering how hard the wind blew we are lucky to have 5 left. The water you see is not usually there either.

I wish to dedicate day 281 to whoever planted those trees all those years ago.

“Even trees do not die without a groan."---Henry David Thoreau

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."---Nelson Henderson

love
peter