some pics from paul

Our big apricot tree is blooming.  Started from pit.  

I tried to get pics of bees - but i guess that flopped.

I am supposed to put in a bunch of steps each day for a certain duration at a certain pace.  It is working, so i am gonna keep trying.  Some days I am better than others.  

If I go to the caldera twice a day, that's about right.  But doing the same thing over and over is getting boring.  About a dozen different people have come to take this old guy on his walkies.  That helps a lot.  

Last fall the boots built me a place to put some trail tools.  I have slowly been carrying tools up to the lean-to like thing and have been adding a bit of a new trail.  

I would consider myself blessed to have that view for my daily walks. Boring? Each day you go out, look for something different. Something that has changed. "One of these things is not like the others" sort of dealio.

Jim

paul wheaton wrote:I am supposed to put in a bunch of steps each day for a certain duration at a certain pace.  It is working, so i am gonna keep trying.  Some days I am better than others.  

If I go to the caldera twice a day, that's about right.  But doing the same thing over and over is getting boring.  About a dozen different people have come to take this old guy on his walkies.  That helps a lot.  

Last fall the boots built me a place to put some trail tools.  I have slowly been carrying tools up to the lean-to like thing and have been adding a bit of a new trail.  

Jim Garlits wrote:I would consider myself blessed to have that view for my daily walks. Boring?

Three years.

I like the idea that i can build a network of trails that will take me ALL of my steps all over the property.  And i plant lots of things along those trails.

A little tour of my trail so far

The planting would have me quivering for any signs of progress each time I passed them. Ha ha. It sprouted! It's an inch tall now!

Jim

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Jim Garlits wrote:I would consider myself blessed to have that view for my daily walks. Boring?

Three years.

I like the idea that i can build a network of trails that will take me ALL of my steps all over the property.  And i plant lots of things along those trails.

It is nice to connect what you were talking about in the recent podcast with a real place. I am also realizing something about walking onions, or maybe not… my neighbor grows them in lovely garden soil over heavy clay. The first time I tried to grow them, I thought they would like my best garden soils, but they failed to thrive and died out to nothing by winter. Then last year I tried again, planted them, and nothing showed the first year. This year, a single walking onion is looking happy, like the one in your picture—this one is growing out of the side of my horrible two foot hugelkultur with its poor gravely-silty-loam soils. Now that I see it growing in pure dirt I think I understand!

a little walk today

Making and maintaining trails is a lot of fun, isn't it? These days I end up doing a bit of trail maintenance almost every time I walk in the woods.