Dang, have I been busy! I mean, do you have any idea how long it takes to pickle a human kidney? Multiply that by 7 and you're looking at a week where the blog falls by the wayside, submerging into a brine whose contents, surprisingly, taste wonderful with ketchup. But then again, what doesn't taste wonderful with ketchup? Not a pile of detached toenails, I'll tell you that much.
Anyway, my foot acted up last week, but I finally ran long today, and want to share some pictures (all taken while pantsless, so I had to deal with the adversity of passers-by dry-heaving IN THE SHOT). It's like a slideshow! Feel free to hold your applause until after the boredom-induced sadness-coma subsides.
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The river was filled with Sparkles. If it were last year and I was talking about the Hudson, that would be in reference to dead strippers.
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The beginning of the Cox Mountain climb. Yada, yada, yada, the mom of someone who doesn't check the blog climbs this a lot. Like, all the time. And 10 times on Sundays. Also, the person who doesn't read the blog smells like garlic bread....down there.
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This would make an awesome fort. Is a thought I would have if I weren't so mature. Wall Street Journal! 10-Day Forecast! 21 Jump Street! Wait...what?
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Now a few from a complete rest day (the first in just about forever) last week:
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Creeping on strangers at the Duke Gardens gazebo. This was taken just after I sniffed them, and just before I grunted my approval. Mhhhhhhhmmmmmm.
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Duke is actually a fairytale land. Even the unicorns pop their collars!
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| It's a parable about parenting. Gotta watch out for those photographers wearing buttonless trenchcoats. I think Aesop said that. |
Anyway, things are wonderful. Durham is amazing, as are the people in North Carolina. On top of that, the most perfect girl in the world lets me hold her hand, which, in an upset of expectations, does not come with inflatable orifice attachments. I guess I am just really fortunate, and I want to thank you guys for everything, even if it is just a click of the blog now and then. Hope things are absolutely perfect!
Cheer up, would ya!?
ReplyDeleteAll it takes is a positive outlook, and industrial-sized quantities of horse tranquilizers to be this cheery.*
ReplyDelete*Cheery because horse tranquilizers are delivered anally
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ReplyDelete"COX MOUNTAIN" ha ha ha ... did you go up and down and up and down and up and down ?
ReplyDeleteDave:
ReplyDeleteSo glad Duke/Durham continue to go well. Keep the race reports coming. Phil
the inspirational poster industry just got a little more inspirational. i see the bridge shot, framed in black, with "PATIENCE" in all-caps, white letters.
ReplyDeletethis would also be hanging above my mantle upon the day that i own a mantle.
ramble on, rambler!
Liam, I went up and down and up and down, then stopped abruptly, then cramped. The usual. Ladies...
ReplyDeleteThanks Phil, really awesome of you.
ReplyDeleteI think owning a mantle is a good goal to have. Owning a Mantle, however, is somewhat sad because it probably means you still own baseball cards. And, I mean, who does that? Not me, I'll tell you that much.
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Wind gusts outside; in order to avoid turning into Dorothy, and literally be on the Yellow Bricks (www.julie-gorham.blogspot.com), I'm going to crazy glue my inner palms to the dreadmill this morning. This will force me to run, indoors, as I pay my son $$ to continuously increase speed & incline.
ReplyDeleteI dropped by to look at your very Spring-y pics. Thank you for sharing Dave. Maybe, in the midst of my dreadmill torture, I can visualize winter away forever!!
You give me hope that all things are possible...
You're so awesome Jules. Thanks a ton :)
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