Ken and I went for a bike ride this morning, out to Chatfield dam and back, 17 miles or so. We weren't quite ready to tackle climbing the front of the dam yet, so we took the back way up, then zoomed down the front, and headed back down the Platte River. We stopped for lunch at Panera Bread - their half sandwich/soup combo is perfect.
I thought I was going to just relax and maybe take a nap afterwards, but Ken's a real energizer. He remembered that I'd mentioned I wanted to rip out one of our two arctic willows, and came back up with a wheelbarrow full of tools to help get me going. We spent several hours hacking away at that 60-pound monster with a reciprocating saw, finally getting down to the roots under the stump, and finished with just a hole in the ground, which I refilled with the dirt we'd taken out, and covered up with some weed barrier. That was an amazing accomplishment -- I've been wanting to do that for several years. We celebrated by going out for dinner, then watched "The Dresden Files", a really fun show for taking our minds off anything important.
Ken and I went for a bike ride this morning, out to Chatfield dam and back, 17 miles or so. We weren't quite ready to tackle climbing the front of the dam yet, so we took the back way up, then zoomed down the front, and headed back down the Platte River. We stopped for lunch at Panera Bread - their half sandwich/soup combo is perfect.
I thought I was going to just relax and maybe take a nap afterwards, but Ken's a real energizer. He remembered that I'd mentioned I wanted to rip out one of our two arctic willows, and came back up with a wheelbarrow full of tools to help get me going. We spent several hours hacking away at that 60-pound monster with a reciprocating saw, finally getting down to the roots under the stump, and finished with just a hole in the ground, which I refilled with the dirt we'd taken out, and covered up with some weed barrier. That was an amazing accomplishment -- I've been wanting to do that for several years. We celebrated by going out for dinner, then watched "The Dresden Files", a really fun show for taking our minds off anything important.
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