My Actifit Report Card: August 21 2020

I got about half of my steps today from a nice walk with our dog to one of the local lakes. This being Minnesota, in most parts of the state you can go in almost any direction and hit a lake in a few minutes. We’ve got three within easy walking distance, plus several ponds, and a marsh.

But most of my physical activity today involved little walking but lots of digging. It’s been warm and muggy and I’m now on my fourth shirt of the day. I’ve been working on and off for several days now digging up the space around The Douglas Fir That Will Not Die in our front yard. Snow-in-the-mountain may look nice when you first plant it but over time you come to see it as an evil invasive species. And it has a pernicious root system that seems to never end. But I think my digging, weeding, and re-digging has reached a point of diminishing returns. Time to turn the space over to my wife where she’ll replant something. She’s going to definitely have to do some soil amending. The space that the snow-in-the-mountain had taken over has an odd mixture of healthy soil teeming with worms, clumps of clay, and this weird dead grey material that seemed like a blend of ash and crushed moon rock. And bricks. Damn, I dug up a lot of bricks. Some of them neatly in a row from some planting way back when but others randomly lonely.

Before and after:

Gardening,Walking