Hoto Cleans Up

Sunday, May 09, 2010

Saturday, May 08, 2010

Wifey and I rode from downtown, around UBC, down under the Granville
and Oak bridges to the bike path over the new skytrain bridge. Then
down the river in Richmond to the Gilbert road bridge, back over it to
the airport and out to Iona beach

Then back again. Did a couple of monstrous hills in there too.

Now we are wandering around the house like zombies trying to remember
our names.

Sunday, May 02, 2010

Corner bed, planted and trench gravelled

Corner bed dug, preplanted

Corner bed, planted and cedar hedge gone

Saturday, May 01, 2010

Corner bed, after

Corner bed, before

Flower Bed 2, planted

Flower Bed 1, planted

Flower bed 2, prepped for planting

Flower bed 2, before

Flower bed 1, prepped for planting

Flower bed 1, before

Strawberry patch after

Strawberry patch before

Kamloops landscaping

For my brother in law, wifey and I gave him three days of gardening
labour for Christmas. Not a lot of people do anything nice for Brian,
despite the fact that he routinely does amazing things for others.

So we arrived to find a large list of tasks ... Including lots of
digging, weeding, and prep for future rock work.

Here are some pics taken fr his back deck prior to our work starting
on Friday.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Sunday and counting

53km in the beautiful sunshine with all the gardens blooming and UBC
endowment lands filled with the scent of spring...

And the sound of me panting.

Saturday it rains

Miserable freezing driving rain. Wifey and I are soaked to the skin
and shivering...

But a great ride around UBC to Southlands then back again and around
False Creek. 47km with plenty of hills.

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Melted leaf

On the Elbow River. Ice on the shore. Leaves warmed up in the sun and
melted a foot into the ice. Even the stalk left a trail down through
the ice.

Scene of the crime

The final bloodstain and the weapon that delivered the final blows.

Drilling the piano

Removing the strings

We loosened the pegs with a drill, then cut the piano wires free.

Sunday, April 04, 2010

Hills hills hills

Saturday, April 03, 2010

Windstorm drops trees across the causeway in Stanley Park

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Friday, April 02, 2010

Signs, signs everywhere the signs

I should have taken heed of the signs.

Large branches blown down in the Stanley Park causeway.

The radio announcing the ferry sailing delays.

The rain driving sideways at sea level.

The whitecaps visible in Burrard Inlet.

But, no it had all seemed so placid at home. A drizzle of rain. 7
degrees celsius. Not that cold.

As I drove up onto the Upper Levels highway, the SUV started
buffetting in the wind, but I thought to myself: suck it up! You've
sculled on Coal Harbour in a snow storm, you've ridden your bike in
the worst kinds of weather. How bad could it be?

Well, riding up (or rather, trying to ride up) Cypress Bowl road, in
what became a hailstorm, on a holiday Friday morning in which everyone
and their dog decides to race up to the mountain for some spring
skiing, on a shoulderless road, with the gale gorce wind blowing DOWN
the mountain against me, with my feet so cold and soaking wet in four
minutes that I thought my toes were going to snap off ... it just
proved to be a bad idea. I made it 15 minutes before I thought I was
going to die, and then abandonded it for four sprints up the hill from
Spanish Banks beach to UBC.

Also cold and wet, just not quite so dangerous.

Then I went home and got warm.

Who's idea was the ride to Conquer Cancer anyway?