My landscaping is a work in progress, at the moment a very big mess but you can also see it coming together. Yesterday afternoon I went out to Mums and helped her pile a heap of rocks into the trailer. This was a slightly hazardous process that involved Mum standing at the top of a cairn in her backyard and dislodging rocks with a mattock while I tried not to get killed 
It soon became apparent that I am soft and weak as I could only lift little football sized rocks and Mum could pick up rocks twice as big 
This afternoon we then unloaded all the rocks back at my house and that is the hard work over, the landscaper is going to put them in place with the Bobcat and build a retaining wall. With all the rocks out of the trailer we piled in all the old scraggly stuff that had been pulled out of the ground and took it off to the greenwaste place.
With some old camellia’s cleared away from the front of my house I had a chance to have a look at the stumps, uh-oh, I guess I better face up to what I already suspected, the dreaded re-stumping! My weatherboard house is about 40 years old and still has the old redwood stumps and they are not looking too flash. Oh well, best get on the phone tomorrow and organise some quotes, I am not bothered that it is going to cost a bit, I have been putting money aside in the reno fund for things like this, it’s just the hassle and the mess that has been putting me off. Also I am totally hopeless at organising stuff like this, I get a bit overwhelmed, I suck at Life Admin.
Running
Last week was a 70km week so I didn’t want to go over that this week, build slow and steady and all that. Therefore I opted to take yesterday as a rest day, all the hauling about of rocks (even if they were little ones) and traipsing over my Mums big block of land was exercise enough.
This morning I headed out at about 8:15 for my long run, I seem to have settled into these again reasonably well. I planned on 17km along the same route as last week, expect I ran on the path on the otherside of the freeway so I could make less road crossings. I finished more or less on 90 minutes, looking back at my diary I was only managing about 15.5km in 90 minutes earlier this year, now I can comfortably fit in 17km so my long run pace is picking up. It was a good run on a beautiful morning and it capped off another 70km week.
Lots of activity this weekend, any wonder I am feeling a bit worn out now, not even time for my usual nana nap. Think I might flake out with a glass of wine 
