I Want A Pony! + April gardening/running update

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I took a little time off of work this week to show some love to the garden and dig my heels in on training for this marathon in June. It was time well spent, as always! I decided to start with the gardening and work my way up to the training run.

First, I got out my pent up aggression on 2 rose bushes that I've never liked in our front yard. I transplanted the first one in the side yard but did a really half baked job at it so we'll see what happens. You are never supposed to leave gaps in the soil but the roots on this thing were insane, so I'm sure there were gaps. I hope the neighbors all got a good look at me pulling with all of my might on the aforementioned rose bush and then proceeding to fall face first on to it. Thorns sucks.

I planted dahlia bulbs in the exhumed graves of the roses...I was assured by the nice lady at the farmers market that it's not too late to plant them, and that I should sprinkle slug killer on them right after sowing. Apparently this is a MUST DO for dahlias and I wish I knew that last year because the slugs went to town on them.

On to the veggie garden for some serious weeding. I personally love to weed now...once I get in the zone I'm unstoppable. I also (organic) Sluggo'd my kale and peas because dem slugs be straight pimpin' on them. Sorry boys, party's over.

I have been wanting to extend the growing season ever since last year when I was stuck with a gaggle of green tomatoes in September with no hopes of them ever maturing. So I purchased 2 collapsible cloches and planted a few tomato and pepper starts. We'll see how it goes.

My big goal to give me the confidence that there is a slight chance I may complete this marathon, was that I needed to run 18miles. Until now it has not happened, but on Tuesday it did...I even made it to 18.5 and was still functional afterwards (I use term functional loosely). I did a road run up Bellfountain and back...it was a perfect option and I plan to do it again and push it up to 20miles possible but that will be my limit until race day. Oh and there is the CUTEST pony in the world on this run. It has it's own little pony area and was eating it's little pony food and I just had to stop and admire it. That is until the mean looking old farmer who owns it looked at me like I was on meth. I want a pony!

Early Spring update

Anton and I planted 10 raspberry canes today in the side yard. And lots of action in the front yard and veggie garden. Spring is springing! I have decided to only plant things I know we'll eat in the veggie garden, no more experiments, so there will be lots of onions, garlic, kale, tomatoes and peas! Oh and cucumbers, zucchinis...wait, this is getting more complicated. Too soon to think about that today, I'll think about that tomorrow.