this old house, two good runs and a missing lob wedge

on some kind of everything has to go wrong spiral, but fighting it -- will sit down over the weekend and come up with plan c. easy for me to decide what needs to get done but not getting any help from the people who have to do the work. in a nut shell the past two days have gone like this-

decided i was going to run no matter what everyday- it is the only 60-90 minutes that seem to make sense right now. so off to the track we went to run a little workout. ran 9 x 200 and 4 x 400. ran them ion pretty decent times for me these days and despite the heat and humidity. stopped when i did as i felt i was not holding my form and couldn't see haven't something else get hurt. did a long slow cooldown and then went home.. gail ran her 400's pretty well also so all in all the track went ok. then back home to wait for the ac/heater unit guys.

they showed up on time, but they were a different crew than we had expected and given the warning we had been given i was a little leery, but we needed to have the work done so gail went off to st mary's and i stayed home and they worked. nine hours later they were done and left. skipped ahead a bit here huh? i spent the day working on the house - cleaning out the flooded area and throwing things away. working on the garden, paying bills and making appts.

gail was still at school when they finished so i went over and hit some balls at the range. did drills as my right hand last two fingers have some how gotten bruised and swollen. not good while holding the club. had chipped and putted some and that went ok except for the lob wedge. needs time - hit so-so and gave away the last of the balls and went home. arrived in time to find out the electric in the kitchen was not working. tried for awhile to figure it out but didn't. my dumb as it turned out, but mostly from being away for so long i had forgotten the kitchen was on a dual system and to protect the refrigerator the gfi kicks in and shuts down.

had the tech guy come today and he didn't figure it out for awhile either and i ran around helping him check it out and learned some electricity stuff. then the lights went on in a bad pun sort of way and he finally had an idea that there was a gfi protecting a dual system. anyway- seconds later it was all working again.

this was way after this morning's 9 mile run on the river trail on a pretty morning and one which was not quite as hot as yesterday. ran north for several miles and then turned south to see if i could run into any of the people i knew. first up i ran into adrian who told me her and her husband paul were getting ready to go off to england and we talked about oxford and cambridge for awhile. paul is from oxford but they have hopes of living in cambridge some day.

then i ran into john and they were getting ready to go to paris soon. the world grows smaller everyday. i had seen john on the trail and ran back towards him to catch up some and add two more miles. both worked out and ended up running a decent 9miles though i was tiring some at the end. and it was getting warmer but never as bad as the last few days.

back home i did some normal house stuff and went off to the lumber yard to check on replacement doors for our front and back doors as they are in bad shape and not working well. the back door has swelled up since the flood and the front door has just broken down after 52 years. doubt we will find doors as good as everything seems to be of lesser quality these days. got soem info at the lumber yard and will go over it with gail later. also have a guy coming to the house to talk about doors on tuesday.

then stopped at the flood repair place and went over soem choices and prices, but didn't have the quotes yet from the guy who will tear down the walls and ceiling.
quick stop at the bank and post office and the stone yard to get stone for the new pipes to drip into. and then home again to wait for the electrician and to do laundry and cut the grass. another fun day.

and then i looked around for the new lob wedge i just bought but it has disappeared from sight. has to be in the house somewhere doesn't it? i took it out of the plastic on friday last week and gone---who knows where/////

hit some pitch shots in the back yard and called it a day- have run 28 miles in the last 4 days with two track workouts including the 5k time trial. will up the miles soon but need to get past the daily appts first.have 6 more set up for next week and that doesn't include picking out new tile or carpets. also have to reschedule the bathroom work and the driveway re-paving. and need to decide about the oak tree in back-stay or go?

off i go- still have stuff to do before any sleep time. have put golf on the back burner for now. will get in what i can but need to get things done. the house is barley functioning and we cannot use the downstairs, one bathroom and one door at all. what i haven't thrown out from the family room in clogging up the laundry room and with everything going on it is still a lot easier to be in this house than the tent in oxford. do miss the people there and the thames and canal. oh well.

so life goes on- what could i have done with the wedge? any semblance of routine will wait. for now we are only dealing with house junk. next week the drs appts start. not looking forward to that.

in my next life i will choose between a trade school or a way to make more money or become a hermit in a one room cabin somewhere in france.