What is your go-to workout?

SIL #1 choked me out this morning in class. In my defense he got mount to start but ouch, nasty choke! I’m running my short run and then my garage run (grinders as we called them) 4 days a week or so. What’s satisfying is often my gas tank is perfectly fine and my opponent is huffing and puffing. Of course my cardio work is my little secret, lol.

 

Have you read the Peter Attia book "Outlive"?

 

In Ketchikan I ran 3 out of 4 mornings, about the same distance I normally run. The first morning my daughter chewed me out for not waiting so, I got to run twice. (I raised them tough, I don’t argue. Lol.) The new kicks are nice, I should have upgraded long ago.

 

VICTORY!! In the 4 months since that extremely large (calling it huge might have been an understatement) Red Oak tree fell in our yard, we have cut and stacked, and cut and burned, and burned, and then burned some more! Had to use the tractor to move Some of the Big stuff, but Most was Too Big for the tractor, and the chainsaw is on its second bar and third chain! Did I mention that it has been a very wet spring? Well, it has been rather damp and rainy, but we persevered and today, the Eighth of June in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Four we prevailed, and the tree is no more! This tree was most likely 200 years old and had seen a lot of local history, it was around at the dawn of the 19th Century when Indians walked this land and called it theirs, when Andy Jackson and his men went down to New Orleans, when a young Abe Lincoln traveled north on the Natchez Trace, it saw Confederate and Yankee troops pass-by, and it provided shade to the people, white and black, that worked the land. Shortly after the beginning of the 20th Century, my Great-grandparents purchased the land, back when horseless carriages and airplanes were new, and the tree provided shade for them and their growing family. They ran electric power down the road and then they paved the road. Six generations of my family has been a part of this land, just like that tree, and we're gonna miss it!

 

Have you got a metal detector? Maybe old Abe dropped a coin....


I'm down 60 pounds and still working the plan. I'm getting rid of almost all my stuff to sell when I retire and sell the place and that's been a chore.
There's 5 generations of stuff spread across seven storage buildings on the farm. Farms accumulate stuff plus my family seems to have the hoarder gene. I have found more odd things than I can post. Tune up kit for a '39 Ford? Got it. Magneto for a '47 Massey Harris? Got it. Compass and sextant for a B-29 Stratofortress? Got it. 250 pound dummy bomb for target ranges? Got it.... Confederate Gold? Still looking

 

Read a book about the Knights of the Golden Circle, the James and Younger brothers and the Confederate Gold (aka the Last Chance Gold). There were also some TV shows on the "History Channel", one followed the Knights of the Golden Circle and the cryptic clues they left behind (maps, writings, and coded messages) and the other had the Oak Island boys in Georgia on the trail of some thieving Yankee scum that made off with the gold after the War. The Yankee Government claims the gold, but you, me and everyone else knows that is BS, because it's finders' keepers and the best the Feds can hope for is that we don't re-ignite the War!
PS Are you sure you want to sell land that has been in your family so long? I've got about 10 acres of the original family farm and I'm not likely to acquire any more. I've always felt that I was just the current caretaker and was to pass the land on to the next generation.

 

My kids don't want to live there as they have built their own lives and assets.

The worst part is urban sprawl have overtaken my little village of 90 people when I graduated high school and filled it with rich big city trash complaining about tractors, cows and gunfire to the tune of about 2000 complainers.

In six years when I retire, the value will be 20 fold what it was when I took the farm over and I will be surrounded with subdivisions and apartment complexes.

 

I'm on vacation for the next 10 days and will blow the diet with fresh seafood and maple syrup but get in some great daily hiking.

I got here with discipline and I'll get back to it in short order on my return.