Pond Pictures

Since it's cold and wintery outside, and snowing like a bugger, I thought this would be a good time to show off my pond and my pond fish from this past summer .

The pictures were taken from inside my living room through the front window. ENJOY! : )

And what the pond looks like today. ......


Here they are safe and sound inside the house over winter in their aquarium.

November Snow part 2, the day after.

The animals aren't complaining about the snow.




Mocha(cat) and Amber(Dog) enjoying the warmth of the fire.



View of 2 feet of fresh snow over the last 2 days from my computer room.

Back yard shots

And it's not even winter yet!

November Snow and Hot Tub

My Hot tub sprung a leak last night while I was in it, one of the connection popped apart. I fixed it today. The snow on the right melted from baling out the water from the tub. motor and connection under the hatch of the bottom corner of the decking around the tub


A view of my motor under ground.
The connection on top popped off. I fixed it by re-gluing it with pvc glue.

We had a nice blast of snow overnight so I had the ladies grab the shovels....

Melissa this morning doing her part in shoveling.
Joanne and Melissa on a gab break

Pretty...

Last night, I had to do my annual barefoot trek in the snow.

Oops! I slipped and fell.......On purpose of course, I don't fall! ...EVER!

My close up....Back up on my feet...
Hurry up my feet are getting cold.

Finally Ironman Lake Placid pictures

Well it's a long time in coming, but I finally had time to put some pictures up from IMLP

Here is my pictorial of our time there starting with when we got there looking though the expo after getting registered

Me on the beach of the swim course....

Some people I met at the IBSEX exchange form the Blue page of the chat forum..
Fleet and Bernie the attorney....
Pic's of expo area....


Me being body marked...
Mary her husband and me on the walk to the run special needs bag area before the race...
PNF and me. She was telling me she knows a little about Ironman... Ya! right!?!?
She really said to me; "Good luck and thanks for posing with me." : )
Making my way out for the swim start with 2300 of my newest best friends....
Getting ready for the cannon..
And we're off!!!....
That's me in the middle.....
That's me in the middle getting clobbered...Finished my swim in 1:10
Me coming into town after the first loop....Finished my bike in 7:07
Coming out of T2 to start my 26.2 mile walk/shuffle...
Shuffling along...

A smiling Ironman finisher ....And a third time Ironman in 15:45...

No problem!...

Muskoka 70.3

I went up to Huntsville on Sunday to ride the bike course to perpare myself for the race. Man! was it tough!! I and a group I was riding with all agree this bike course is a lot tougher then IMLP with lots of climbing at the start with long rollers in the middle, and the last 10 miles having the toughest climbs of 10-16% grade. It took me almost 4 hours to ride the course. I'm thinking I may pass on doing this race it's so tough. I've got two weeks to decide.