Watching my Bluebird love shack right now. It looks like the current residents are about ready to kick their young'uns out into the real world. This should make the 2nd successful nest of the year.  Watched four adults taking turns feeding the babies the other day. Had no idea they would do that. I always thought that only the parents would do the feeding. Guess I'm not too old to learn new things , yet.

Have a bunch of yard work to do, mowing, trimming trees and spraying weeds. After that hopefully there will be time for a bike ride or a run of at least 7-9 miles.

QOTD: Is there anything that you have changed in your life that if someone would have told you that you would be changing you would have thought they were crazy?

If someone would have told me in 2007 that I would be real proactive and protective of the nice birds in my backyard I'd have chased them away with the pitchfork.  Now anything that gets after my Bluebirds or other good songbirds ends up feeling my wrath. Why the change? Don't really know. When my MIL was still alive and living in our apartment she had a bird feeder and I started seeing the nicer birds being pushed around by the sparrows, blackbirds etc.  I couldn't really clean out the bad actors then because she liked them all. Once she was gone I got rid of the bird feeder and started cleaning out the nasty birds and realized that it was nice to watch all the good ones.  I've always been told that where my Bluebird house is located is the worst spot for one as they typically won't use one that is positioned where mine is.  In reality I've been so protective of them that they use it like a condo,  with multiple pairs using it to raise families every year.

Wasn't planning on a run with other Saturday activities and it really only came to a 2 mile hike where I jogged occasionally to get away from the flies. Did find and pick about a pint of wild blackberries (yum). The bottoms of both feet have been sensitve/sore and it hasn't gone away. crap-- could this be the beginning of plantar fasciitis? And of course, I have been skipping yoga for a few weeks now, including any foot and achilles work.

qotd: I'm not sure I understand the question, but there's nothing I necessarily would have done differently but I am very surprised we are still in DC. It was supposed to be the 3 year post-doc plan and that was 20 years ago. I do like it here - though it took a while.

DD- I love watching the birds in my yard! I put up a wren house and a pair of carolina wrens are working on brood #2. And the goldfinches are now coming regularly to feast off certain plants.

Short run finishing with some 30 second pickups.

qotd: If I understand the question, if anyone had told me I would be running marathons and eventually ultras when I first started running, I would have wondered what they'd been smoking. I started out my running career as a miler and fully expected to never race farther than 3 miles. Being at one time a pacifist and anti-Vietnam War protester, I also would have thought anyone telling me I would eventually enlist in the army was out of his mind.

SRD. Didn't run early this morning and now I'm sitting on a plane about to go to Tokyo. Sunday's over for me. I get there Monday afternoon, and I'll probably do a few miles when I arrive to try and shake off the jet lag. Temps there are pretty much the same as Houston, so no relief there... QoN, I hope they have cold beer. 

Beaverhead 55k yesterday, Missoula Marathon today.  My legs are about to fall off but otherwise none the worse for wear. Will post some pics when I'm home.

 

QOTD: this question requires more brain power than I can summon now.