A World On A String

[budman678]

The only reason I log on anymore....

You had me cackling regarding your asterisk and your dandy patch.

I love you man!

Ps - I've never had an Equatorial sativa or anything more than a 14 week sour cross but I also crave the disorienting rush of a "scrub the ceiling" paranoid high. It's best with coffee and mild house/yard/garden work.

 

[Jericho Mile]

Woodchucking

Woodchucking

The weather being so fine....and me having cased out a couple of honey holes of primo Oak which I deliberately left alone last year...knowing that the locations where they could be found..were protected by the amount of work needing to be put into harvesting the downed trees..and how hard they were to see behind the walls of brush...I figured they were safe...money in the bank

Using my wife as my Swamper....we started cutting and moving the rounds last week. Took pretty much all the limb wood..then started working down the bole of the tree until we filled the truck bed. That's all cut/split/stacked now...so my landing area on the property was clear again for another load



^ We went back yesterday and finished harvesting the rest of the tree. Got another load out of it. My wife is tough..only 120 lbs...but the tree was off the road and down a hill..so yeah...it was a work out for her. The key to bucking trees as a team is for the sawyer to buck manageable rounds/pieces for the swamper. Does no good to break the swamper. Moving Oak rounds uphill is a lot to ask out of a 120 pound swamper...so
cutting the rounds into cookies and dicing everything up short or thin...gets it done

This is all for next season anyway...but I'll get it cut, split, and stacked tomorrow or sometime soon. We'll be back out for another tree next week. It's a great time to be woodchucking ...get a jump on the pile



^ The first Asparagus head breaking through. They are coming in early this year. This plant is 4yrs old now and getting more productive with every season. I eat the hell out of this stuff...right out of the ground...never gets cooked.



^ Planted this patch of Cilantro last September. It didn't do much over the winter...but now...it's kicked into full gear. Great stuff. I eat some every day.



^ A couple and a few Skunk Jones and SZSK f2 females. I'm slowly working my way through the population and getting it sexed. I spent about 5 hrs in the indoor gardens today..getting shit to a place where I can have a couple days away from it.

SZSK = Skunk #1 "The Pure" X Chem DD

Skunk Jones = SZSK f2 X Casey Jones f2

* I want to be out on the trails training Thursday - Sunday. Do a 20-30 mile run on Saturday and 7-10 mile runs on the other days. I don't have a crazy training schedule right now....just meandering away towards the next race. I'm pretty stress free mentally...and the body..although always sore..is doing what it's supposed to do

 

[Highlighter]

Working on rounding out next year's wood myself.
Been a pretty mild winter here... 50 degrees when I got up this a.m....no need to stoke the stove. still have over half of what we normally go thru in a winter.
Being ahead is always a good thing!



No snow now but they say 8" on friday.
Keep on chuggin' my friend!

 

[Jericho Mile]

1 hour 33 minutes

1 hour 33 minutes

That's what the clock on the bread machine tells me. It is fresh bread that I am waiting on. Let the day warm up anyways...then I can get out..cut through the curtain and enter the brush



^ Products that work for me. That is to say: shit I endorse for staying upright...mobilized on mountain trails.

1. Altra shoes. Shown here are the 3 pairs of Lone Peak 2.5 that I've been using. One of those pairs is brand new...only have 7 miles on them...but the inverted pair has probably 500-600 miles on them. Can't believe how well that pair have held up. They are broken from the inside out now however....and slippery as hell...reduced to yard shoes

2. Buff headware. Full or 1/2 Buffs rock. I like the UV protected ones. I always wear Buffs under my trucker hats. I like to wear them Suicidal style..pulled down over the tops of my eyes. With my hat visor and the Buff pulled down....I block most the sun out...along with..a lot of the world

3. Injinji toe socks. All I've ever worn. The best. Locally made.

4. Proven Nutrition. I'm training and racing on the "Core" powder. This company rocks. Hooked me up for my birthday...and helped save my ass during the Chimera 100M. Big ups to Proven Nutrition

* The other night I was cleaning out one of my drawers. In doing so...I found some of my old gardening notebooks. In one of them I have documented my 2 pac of Chem DD run...2 pac of Casey Jones and the Skunk #1 "The Pure" run. Documentation on making SZSK, Jaundice, TFlux, Dinky Hocker, Po'Gum...and then there is documentation of grows/breeding I did way before that..with plants and varieties that I had totally forgotten about. There was scribblings about Romulan and White Widow...and some SD Hogsbreath and some Nor Cal S.A.G.E....Pot of Gold.....pretty wild window into gardens of the past

all gone...or did I save some?

 

[Jericho Mile]

Yet...we are here

Yet...we are here

Old notebooks aside...we are here. Now



^ Cleaning out a bend in the circle. Jaundice f2 expression #2 on the left Jaundice f2 expression #1 on the right. I will be harvesting these sisters today...day 61. Similar...yes...but there is a split. I can see it in veg..and in flower.



^ J1 top



^ J2 top



^ These are the plants I used J2s1 pollen on. I pollinated some bottom buds on both plants. I'll get an ample amount of seeds from both.

J2 X J2s1 and J1 X J2s1....the "FEMALE ONLY" avenues into Jaundice

which brings us here. Now



^ How it all connects. These are males. On the left is a "red line" Jaundice f2....on the right is an I-HOP Satellite

Jaundice = Bogbubble X Chem DD

I'll use the Jaundice f2 to make the f3 generation. I'll use the pollen on both J1 and J2 covering the red and green lines. I'll also have the new addition J3 (a red line) and I'll guess she'll look good and also get hit with the pollen. These pollinations secure the f3 male/female avenues into Jaundice.

I-HOP Satellite = SCreme'N Dawg f2 X Blue Satellite 2.2

* SCreme'N Dawg f2 came from ClearBarbedFunk (CBF) and is:

Chem D cut X a single SCreme male. SCreme is CBF's work with Strawberries...believe it is based in Strawberry Cough

the f2 generation was made with a Chem D dominant male and 2 females selected for resin production and potency.

I bought them in the f2 generation...so selections were made by CBF

** I never had male SCreme'N Dawg but I did outcross them in the I-HOP series of breedings.

so..

I don't have many I-HOP Satellite f1 beans left. I need to progress this line into the f2.

In veg...there are two I-HOP Satellite females. That will have to do. Hopefully those females turn out to be all they can be.

...........after those pollinations/progressions...maybe it is that the remaining pollens can intertwine elsewhere.

 

[Crusader Rabbit]

all gone...or did I save some?

Up in smoke dude.

 

[unclefishstick]

yup,i need to look into something to deal with head sweat here pretty soon,maybe think about getting new helmet pads or at least cleaning the current ones...still need to buy more riding shorts too...and gloves,for some reason i kill gloves in a couple of months...

 

[mrS0ul]

 

[Jericho Mile]

weather system changing...could see and feel it today. Clouds came in upping the rh....temps still in the 70's...but rain Sunday and Monday..and all next week in the 50's and 60's.

Good tree cutting weather. I'll cut a lot next week.

* Got out and ran single track and off trail fuel break for a little over 9 miles. Felt really good...able to flow and have fun in little bowl sections of boulders and banks...ran hard for fun

I was almost home...coming up a rolling fast hill...booking up...

when I popped the top...I scared a horse which reared up and scared it's rider. Only people I saw on my run...was this guy and this lady on horseback..and here I'm watching to see if the guy gets thrown or rolled on

nobody's fault..and there was no way I could have seen them. apologized anyway..as the guy looked a bit flustered.

 

[mrS0ul]

I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok...

I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok...

Good tree cutting weather.

Wurd.




~S0ul

 

[Jericho Mile]

Strictly Business

Strictly Business



^ I was testing two J2s1 clones for intersex problems. Remember the seed plant produced an overabundance of fertile male flowers...and I had said she was sketchy perhaps because of being too close to a floor heater...but no

I cautiously attempted to flower the 2 clones and pulled the plug on them this morning about 30 days in. They were starting to put out a bunch of male flowers.....so fuck them.

I killed all the J2s1 plants I possessed. No tears shed.

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hit two canyons of single track for 9.64 miles....then came home and moved wood. existing out of the juicer and on bread. running like a beast.

 

[Jericho Mile]

Wall of 5 and 7

Wall of 5 and 7

...........

 

[Jericho Mile]

Wall of 5 and 7

Wall of 5 and 7

It's a numbers day. Keeping track of...the calculating of...the reading of...the logging of...the labeling of

#s#s#s#s#s



^ The developing wall of Easy Mox Trilogy #7 and #5....growing big vines around vertical bare bulbs...now...that's an art form in plant management..and a discipline in being "on it" every session

EMT #5 = Mox Mox X Casey Jones f2

EMT #7 = Mox Mox X Purple Bastard Haze f2

Mox Mox = Chem DD X TFlux

TFlux = Original Flo X Chem DD



^ An older EMT #5 standing alongside some young Jaundice. I'm starting to get a grasp on this expression. I'm growing her bigger and bigger...and starting to run more of her. She has some citrus going on in her flavor and aroma...like a grapefruit interbred with a lemon..and then there is a layer of the Casey Jones funk. Really unique, interesting, and desirable. You can't not like it.

She's just not that interesting to cultivate. She shows a little intersex (which in her case is just right..and welcomed)...grows lots of smallish Casey-like flowers that are light and not fun to trim...doesn't do any amazing stretching or flower blasting..

but...that's just me being a gardener. End product wise...she's great stuff. Her own thing.

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Training: Didn't get in a long run yesterday...ran single track and old mine road for just shy of 13 miles. Having some issues with my right ankle (ongoing sprain) and a pull in my left calf..left knee..left hip...all coming from a pull in my left hip flexor...tight hamstrings pulling on my back..IT band torquing down my leg...cramping everywhere

normal shit...but I was having a hard run yesterday...and having a hard time getting up this morning..sore steps

..it's raining. see what I can do today

 

[Jericho Mile]

After 2 days of storm

After 2 days of storm

Sunday was 20-40 mph steady winds...cold rain. Monday had less wind but brought bouts of sleet and snow between rains..so that..the ground would have snow in one hour...but not the next..as the temps fluxed about..right around the freezing point



^ This morning we're left with some snow and below freezing temps. This doesn't bother the garlic...but it (and I) prefer last week's upper 70's.

* I haven't trained in the last two days. I'm going through a phase of being tired of being sore. I go through this phase about anytime I have to bend over or come up off the floor. I'll get to stretching out here in a minute...but right now...I'm absorbed in keeping warm by the fire and sipping tea.

This wall I'm up against...

it's like an explosion of knots...which I can physically feel with my fingers..all up and down my left side...from toes to lower back...front/back/inside/outside of the entire left. Sometimes fiery needles...sometimes a burning sensation in the bottoms of my foot and tips of toes. Cramps of overuse

How many years now? More than two.

I can run through it all..so far...but

it would be better to figure out the entire puzzle of what is doing what to whatever

 

[unclefishstick]

sounds like its time to take a break...i find my tendons and such cant keep up with muscle growth/strengthening as well as they used to so i often need to slow things down and do low intensity long rides or just taking actual days off from the bikes and doing other things...

this is where i think a bike would be good for you,a way to keep moving and keep everything stretched out plus it would give you a different perspective on the trails you run....but of course im bike-centric and cant even imagine taking the pounding of running day after day....it took me a week to recover from a wheelie accident,i could barely walk for three days but i was more or less fine on the bike,and going out and spinning around i think helped to rehab all the pulled muscles...

 

[Jericho Mile]

sounds like its time to take a break...i find my tendons and such cant keep up with muscle growth/strengthening as well as they used to so i often need to slow things down and do low intensity long rides or just taking actual days off from the bikes and doing other things...

this is where i think a bike would be good for you,a way to keep moving and keep everything stretched out plus it would give you a different perspective on the trails you run....but of course im bike-centric and cant even imagine taking the pounding of running day after day....it took me a week to recover from a wheelie accident,i could barely walk for three days but i was more or less fine on the bike,and going out and spinning around i think helped to rehab all the pulled muscles...

I've been following your accident and recovery...and I hear what you are saying.

Bunch of professional level mountain bikers around here who know who I am....some through my wife..but they know I race and whatnot...know what I'm doing out there

We'll run into each other...sometimes on out of the way trails/power lines/fuel breaks...I can't even recognize who is yelling out my name..telling me to have a good run...as they are flying and wearing full face helmets and pads...bikes floating off boulders..full on the kind of riders who bomb the mountains and then ride back up them.

It's appealing...no doubt....even a road bike is appealing.

* When I get irritated with being sore...it's just the little bitch trying to bring me down. I refuse to accept that my body can not hack the trails.

bunch of this soreness is coming from running the chainsaw..splitting wood..moving wood..stacking wood...

but...I'm going to be cutting again tomorrow. Got another Oak tree that recently came down. This one is green though. Green and heavy. The gravy is that it's beside a good road..on flat ground..and I'm the only one with a permit in that area. It'll be several days of work...especially if I end up doing it by myself.

** making a batch of Jaundice bubble hash...then we'll see..but I might get out and run for a while. The sun is out...snow melting off..no wind.

Talk about cross training. Run mountains and process firewood....full body work out I'll tell you.

EDIT: My mindset I think is starting to go into fight mode. I think that's what's happening. I'm getting some butterflies over this upcoming Old Goat 50 mile race. It's been a while since I've run 50 miles....this is the beginning of locking in my focus on what it is that I'm going to do. It's still weeks away.

 

[unclefishstick]

yeah,im getting skilled/confident enough now that im getting into more situations where serious injury becomes a real possibility...even the little wrecks i used to be able to shake off are taking a serious toll...im guessing i was going pretty fast last week when i wrecked,singlespeed and all,and i was pedaling as fast as i would normally so i figure i must have been over 10mph easy,maybe not all that fast really but riding a wheelie maybe a bit too fast...it was a really sweet wheelie until it went south....anyway...finding myself just bombing the trails lately...i just recently had that "aha!" thing happen with techy riding and climbing,the stuff that used to scare me....so getting a comfort level there means that the old paradigms or perceived skill limits now seem much tamer to me...and once you have mastered a particular trail the only challenge left is to go faster...so i go through phases of chasing after those strava records as a way to measure my own progress...and then i get bored with that and just start slow riding again...also the speed and climbing work starts to do a number on the tendons so it behooves me to dial it back and work on endurance,the long slow rides...kinda in between at the moment,long slow rides are becoming "lets knock off some climbs"...riding the flats just gets boring...teaching myself how to sit back and take the climb as easy as possible has been hard,so easy to go over pace sometimes...

 

[redlaser]

That's a pretty good stand of garlic, looks like it could be one type. I put in a variety last November and they came up well. Potatoes are a little slower than the garlic. Processing trees is a lot of work, been doing that the last month. Several hundred year old oak and Ponderosa pines, along with smaller trees. Probably fifteen full truck loads of wood and then more than fifteen loads of branches that are less than 2 inches in diameter. at least its not getting hauled very far, maybe a city block. Sounds like you'll have fun with your next race, despite its difficulties.

 

[Madjag]

Love the garlic...........225 this year.

 

[Jericho Mile]

yeah,im getting skilled/confident enough now that im getting into more situations where serious injury becomes a real possibility...even the little wrecks i used to be able to shake off are taking a serious toll...im guessing i was going pretty fast last week when i wrecked,singlespeed and all,and i was pedaling as fast as i would normally so i figure i must have been over 10mph easy,maybe not all that fast really but riding a wheelie maybe a bit too fast...it was a really sweet wheelie until it went south....anyway...finding myself just bombing the trails lately...i just recently had that "aha!" thing happen with techy riding and climbing,the stuff that used to scare me....so getting a comfort level there means that the old paradigms or perceived skill limits now seem much tamer to me...and once you have mastered a particular trail the only challenge left is to go faster...so i go through phases of chasing after those strava records as a way to measure my own progress...and then i get bored with that and just start slow riding again...also the speed and climbing work starts to do a number on the tendons so it behooves me to dial it back and work on endurance,the long slow rides...kinda in between at the moment,long slow rides are becoming "lets knock off some climbs"...riding the flats just gets boring...teaching myself how to sit back and take the climb as easy as possible has been hard,so easy to go over pace sometimes...

All these riders I've met...one of which is a professionally ranked female (she's racing in New Zealand at the moment) have had serious injuries and most of them are 15-20 yrs younger than me...although one dude is in his 40's. Broken legs and shoulders mostly. There's a segment on Red Bull TV showing the Pine Valley jumps. That's one of their spots. steep downhill into big downhill jumps. They get sick air.

cool peoples. They always cheer me...and I always go as hard as I can when I come up on them. Having a pack of talented riders chasing me down Noble Canyon...for as long as I can keep in front of them...is a rush. It happened to me just a couple runs ago. Sometimes I'll go run Noble Canyon on the weekend just to run with the mountain bikers. There's only a few downhill sections where I can stay in front...and it's because there are rocky uphills in the downhills. I run as fast as I can...full out charging...hearing the clanging chains and suspended rubber tires crunching over rocks behind me

* I'd get a bike just to ride up steep paved roads. I'd be about the climbing.