CaradB

Spectacular fall foliage this year - plus a couple of other subjects. Stories in alt text as usual.

Happy Friday y’all

Stupid strength training stabilizes my hypermobile joints so I don’t have 1001 low level aches all the time.

Micah@rincewind.run

infuriating: doing cardio for 20 minutes a day makes me look and feel better

5 Aug

Met a fren on my walk this morning

21 July

He’s a mur-diddly-urderer!

22 July

Uh. The cat is the one looking smug in the alt text. The bird doesn’t have much of an expression 😵

Want a lick? PSYCH!

This is a bad cat, but a good blep.

14 July

Blursed timeline. This is the sun.

14 July

Crap I forgot alt text. It’s the sun looking red and ominous in the background. In the foreground is my garage roof and a construction crane from a neighboring property

14 July

Like I have an iPhone 11 (I know) and this is not an artifact of the software, this is the color of the sun outside. Wildfire smoke

How are all these World Cup elite athletes just out there mouth breathing the whole time?

Obviously mouth breathing isn’t impeding England or Mexico players from scoring or drama or anything.

You know who’s breathing through his nose though? The fucking ref.

E S A B-Z B!

How are all these World Cup elite athletes just out there mouth breathing the whole time?

I have exercise-induced asthma so controlling respiration is always top of mind of me. Respiration and heart rate are linked and I personally crash out so fast if I start hyperventilating. (I am uhhhh not an elite athlete. Just someone who is pretty active.)

Switching to nose breathing has been such a game changer for me feeling less exertion during max effort periods (without losing speed) and faster recovery esp during HIIT classes. And what is football (soccer) if not HIIT? (Unless you’re a ref, then it’s just 90 minutes of HIT)

Summer

Guess who insisted on a walk when I got home and flushed out a rat? 🐀🤢

19 June

Big rain. Big snails.

7 June

Frassy with volunteer echinacea

Body joy!

SUCH a good cosplay of Kinger from Amazing Digital Circus - this is right outside a movie theater playing The Final Act on opening day

I forgot alt text! It’s Kinger from Amazing Digital Circus, wearing a big headpiece with a cross on top to look like a king from a chess set (as in the IP) and a black shirt and purple robe

What a good year for the roses. Bloomscroll incoming

Not a rose, not in bloom

Annnnd fin! I hope you enjoyed my weedy messy rose-infested garden. I think there are something like 9 rose bushes which is amazing considering I’m working with a postage stamp of land.

What a good year for the roses. Bloomscroll incoming

Also not a rose

Another non-rose

What a good year for the roses. Bloomscroll incoming

Yet more red roses, mostly not out. This time they are on the side of the garage.

Not a rose

What a good year for the roses. Bloomscroll incoming

This poor benighted dark crimson rose lives a diseased life under a lilac which hogs all the sun and fresh air and probably water. If that other rose is the Favorite Child, this one is a red headed step child.

Not a very good picture of it but there’s another dark red rose just starting to come out, behind the fading rhododendron and some white peonies.

What a good year for the roses. Bloomscroll incoming

More dark red and some blush pink. The pinks are probably my favorites of all the roses - very few thorns, wonderful fragrance, the blooms last a long time on the plant and when cut.

Close up of the Good Child rose.

What a good year for the roses. Bloomscroll incoming

Very intensely pink rose. Fragrant, long lived, wicked thorny.

Red climber (sorta) and the last of Old Yeller