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Terwillegar Park | 1¾ years ago

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8r4d Just a family #walk on a quiet #spring evening. What better way to spend an hour after a long day of runs and yard work.

Saturday the 4th of May, 2024, during prime time.

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Park Run #5 | 1¾ years ago

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8r4d May the course be with you on this May the fourth, so my fourth #running excursion of the month was a visit to #parkrun in the #rivervalley where I slammed a 5k with about 60 others in the #spring sunshine.

Saturday the 4th of May, 2024, in the late morning.

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T Towne | 1¾ years ago

8r4d My third day of #running this month took me on a nearby neighborhood tour to work on my summer gauntlet.

Friday the 3rd of May, 2024, before dinner.

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St.Albert | 1¾ years ago

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8r4d Another week another spring dance competition. Sure, I could be in the theatre watching all the other kids dance, but as i’m only really hanging around to see mine. Since she needs to be at the theatre an hour early (and I’m nothing if not punctual) I had some time to explore the downtown park river walk area and do some sketching. All that said there is neither dancing nor sketching in this post.

Friday the 3rd of May, 2024, for elevensies.

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Terwillegar Park | 1¾ years ago

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8r4d The 5 Peaks trail #running season is just about to take flight for another year and with it came the regular pre-race orientation run. We may not be doing the race on mother’s day but we did participate in tonight’s more casual event. I’m a little out of practice for the rolling #trails tho it would seem.

Thursday the 2nd of May, 2024, in the evening.

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Mactaggart Trail | 1¾ years ago

8r4d Some people are simply inspired to craft cool things. This rock caught my attention on a local #rocksnake and I stopped to capture it. Artist unknown…

Wednesday the 1st of May, 2024, posted at bedtime.

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Mactaggart Trails | 1¾ years ago

8r4d I’m planning on doing some strong #running in May. For the first day of the month I joined the local #runclub at the running room, but to be fair like 8 of the 10 people there were just our usually group/gang #runcrew

Wednesday the 1st of May, 2024, posted at bedtime.

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T Towne | 1¾ years ago

8r4d A spring delay left Milton out in the snow. #buggyland

Wednesday the 1st of May, 2024, in the morning.

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Rehearsal | 1¾ years ago

8r4d We’ve got some challenging pieces this year, including a couple where only half the #orchestra plays, so rehearsal has been a bit weird. Sometimes the brass plays by themselves while the #violin and string contingent waits, and sometimes it’s vice versa.

Monday the 29th of April, 2024, posted at bedtime.

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Terwillegar Park | 1¾ years ago

8r4d Just a #spring day at the dog park.

Friday the 26th of April, 2024, in the mid-afternoon.

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Trails & Bridges | 1¾ years ago

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8r4d I set out this morning to see just how long it would take to walk from my front door to #westedmontonmall on foot. That’s one heck of a long #walk. Nearly 12k and two and a half hours later, crossing the river, finding bridges across a couple major roads, climbing the Wolf Willow stairs, finding the school where I did my student teaching two decades ago and generally walking a lot, I stepped thru the doors of the mall. I think I earned a lunch out.

Thursday the 25th of April, 2024, posted after lunch.

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Nearby Home | 1¾ years ago

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8r4d For all of last year I didn’t even take my #bike out once. I tell you why that is other than we spent a lot of time on vacation and busy with marathon training so in the end, I barely took the bike off the rack let alone actually getting it out into the trails. Literally I did not take it out even once. So in order to remedy that in 2024 I made sure to do a nice long trail ride even before April ended and got my bike tuned up and out and about in the neighbourhood for a 17 km ride this afternoon.

Wednesday the 24th of April, 2024, deep after noon.

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Terwillegar Park | 1¾ years ago

8r4d Our morning #walk was full of interesting shadows.

Tuesday the 23rd of April, 2024, in mid-morning.

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West Edmonton Mall | 1¾ years ago

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8r4d Mission Fail: My trip to the mall for #art supplies for my class which starts tomorrow hit a snag. I walked in to my trusty locale for inexpensive paints and behold the doors were shuttered and the bay dark. The cultural wasteland that is this city got another degree barren. Of course I spent an hour wandering in #westedmontonmall because y’know gas prices and why not. Tho for a Monday morning I don’t know what i was expecting. It’s dead as anything here.

Monday the 22nd of April, 2024, around lunch-ish.

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Windy Days | 1¾ years ago

8r4d It’s one of those things that often escapes or attention in a busy busy world, and tho you might feel that my life of quasi-middling retirement cannot possibly be busy busy, I do find myself needing to pause every once in a while and reflect on the good moments and #smallthings that warm up my still chilly days. Like when I walked over to starbucks for my two hours of morning writing today and was thankful that I wasn’t in this portapotty when the wind caught it, but also when I ordered a grande #coffee but they gave me a venti by accident so that my daily chapter was fuelled by discounted (but still overpriced) caffeine. Like I said, it’s the small things…

Monday the 22nd of April, 2024, in the late morning.

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Sunday Walk | 1¾ years ago

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8r4d Around the park for some windy running play.

Sunday the 21st of April, 2024, posted after lunch.

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Hiking | 1¾ years ago

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8r4d We did a trip to Canmore in March for spring break, tho the weather was decidedly still winterish. One of our hikes took us on a meandering stroll up and around the mountain trail past the golf course. #backposting

Sunday the 21st of April, 2024, around lunch-ish.

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Trails of White Mud | 1¾ years ago

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8r4d Spring-ish weather has arrived so the trails beckoned us on our morning #running adventure. It’s nice to be off the snow and asphalt again.

Sunday the 21st of April, 2024, around lunch-ish.

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Spring Walks | 1¾ years ago

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8r4d I was excited that the weather has finally improved enough for some long spring walks, but it seems like the second that happened they resumed road construction near our house again so our peaceful path is going to run adjacent to an active paving site for the foreseeable future.

Friday the 19th of April, 2024, in the morning.

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Set List 2024 | 1¾ years ago

8r4d Our #orchestra has been playing some challenging music this half of our season and I realized one of my biggest personal challenges with our music selection has been my lack of familiarity with the music itself. my approach to remedy this was to download the actual performances into my music playlist and to listen to them on repeat in hopes that have a little better sense of the sound so that when I see the notes on the page I can translate between the two. It did mean spending about $20 on, some new albums on iTunes but hopefully it’s worth it in the end. #violin

Wednesday the 17th of April, 2024, in the late morning.

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Backyard | 1¾ years ago

8r4d They say dogs just kind of roll with the punches, but no one was more surprised than cricket when she woke up this morning to find a couple inches of fresh snow in a backyard that was clean and clear for spring just a few hours earlier.

Wednesday the 17th of April, 2024, in the late morning.

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On a 23k Run | 2¼ years ago