Joanne and i got married Dec 15 1979,
Monday, December 15, 2008
The past week
Last week was the usual training grind with swims Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and runs on Tuesday and Thursdays followed with diving for an hour. My runs are getting better, my diving is getting better and I'm losing weight to.
I got a nice surprise in the mail on Tues. Tim Weedman sent me a official Ironman Arizona license plate cover for my car to replace the one that broke off after I drove through a flying sheet of drywall on the hwy. ...Thanks Tim.
Yesterday our family with friends went on our annual x-mass tree hunt to cut our own tree at Drysdales tree farm.
The story went something like this...... ..... ....What a hunt!....I dredged through the bush peering side to side looking for just the right tree, then I snuck up behind and pounced upon the one I thought looked good enough to cut down!...... There was a huge struggle at first, then I finally got the teeth of my saw into its trunk! ...The screems and yells of anguish and hurt, not from the tree? but from my arm getting tired from sawing and burning from fatigue. I finally felled the tree to the call of my T I M B E R!!!......
Once down, there was nothing more the tree could do, but lay there ooozing sap! .......I jumped for joy! I snaged me a good one. Like a great African hunter over his kill, I stood one foot on the main trunk of the tree, and one arm in the air holding the saw that I cut down this perfect specimen of a tree, thumping my chest with my other fist and yelling! "this is the tree to be erected in my house, a superb symbol to celebrate the birth of Christ!" ......
Yes!....... This was a great take down!
There was some struggle to get the tree back to the car, first I had to drag this great specimen at least 1km to the tractor drawn wagon, to take us and the tree back to the main parking lot another 3-4km away, then pay for it, have it tied up with the automatic tree tierupper thingy then carry it another 400 or so meters to the car.
While I strapped the tree onto the roof of my car, the women went to the christmas store to look at all the christmasy things. I then went over to the bon fire and kept warm and drank hot chocolate while they did there shopping thing. Finally, after what seemed hours, the women came out of the store so we could go home and I could set up the tree.....The end!
I got a nice surprise in the mail on Tues. Tim Weedman sent me a official Ironman Arizona license plate cover for my car to replace the one that broke off after I drove through a flying sheet of drywall on the hwy. ...Thanks Tim.
Yesterday our family with friends went on our annual x-mass tree hunt to cut our own tree at Drysdales tree farm.
The story went something like this...... ..... ....What a hunt!....I dredged through the bush peering side to side looking for just the right tree, then I snuck up behind and pounced upon the one I thought looked good enough to cut down!...... There was a huge struggle at first, then I finally got the teeth of my saw into its trunk! ...The screems and yells of anguish and hurt, not from the tree? but from my arm getting tired from sawing and burning from fatigue. I finally felled the tree to the call of my T I M B E R!!!......
Once down, there was nothing more the tree could do, but lay there ooozing sap! .......I jumped for joy! I snaged me a good one. Like a great African hunter over his kill, I stood one foot on the main trunk of the tree, and one arm in the air holding the saw that I cut down this perfect specimen of a tree, thumping my chest with my other fist and yelling! "this is the tree to be erected in my house, a superb symbol to celebrate the birth of Christ!" ......
Yes!....... This was a great take down!
There was some struggle to get the tree back to the car, first I had to drag this great specimen at least 1km to the tractor drawn wagon, to take us and the tree back to the main parking lot another 3-4km away, then pay for it, have it tied up with the automatic tree tierupper thingy then carry it another 400 or so meters to the car.
While I strapped the tree onto the roof of my car, the women went to the christmas store to look at all the christmasy things. I then went over to the bon fire and kept warm and drank hot chocolate while they did there shopping thing. Finally, after what seemed hours, the women came out of the store so we could go home and I could set up the tree.....The end!
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