Adventure race: Spread Your Wings

5th year doing this race. Took 3rd place

Another branch bites the dust

A large branch broke off of one of the old trees in back - right over the house!

Luckily, the branch got wedged in a V formed by a branch of another tree, so it did not fall onto the house. However, it hung just over the roof, waiting to fall.

So I called a tree trimming service. For $100, they dislodged the branch. chopped it up and even trimmed a few other long branches.

Got another raccoon (updated critter count)

Caught another one this morning.
Also shot 2 more squirrels last week (but they crawled away).

I saw a huge rat 2 weeks ago, so I started putting out rat poison again. It gets eaten every night. Dead bodies must be piling up somewhere.

Updated Critter count:

Squirrels : 5 hits, 3 confirmed kills
Raccoons : 3 captured and relocated
Possums : 0
Rats:0

Last year:
Squirrels : 24 hits, 12 confirmed kills
Raccoons :3 captured and relocated
Possums :1 captured and relocated
Rats:0

Boris meets Frisbee

Introduced Boris to a frisbee today. He took to it immediately. He is now psycho about it as well as any ball. He caught on quickly - after about a dozen or so throws, he even caught one in the air.

Whispering Springs GreenBelt

Shoulder Surgery: 5 months later

Its been 5 months and the shoulder is doing well. There is very little (if any) pain and I feel like I have full range of motion (I am sure a PT measurement might dispute that). The only thing remaining is to regain my strength.
Regarding strength, I have sufficient strength for common day-to-day activities and everything seems back to normal. I only notice the lack of strength when doing physical activities that require strength, like climbing or weight lifting.
I started weight lifting again 2 weeks ago, but that is going very slowly (and light). That will take some time to ramp up.
But its ALL GOOD!

Money into the gutter(s)

Finally got a gutter guy to come out and add a gutter over the garage. Before that, whenever it rained, water would cascade down over the garage door, which was very annoying. I also had 2 sections replaced - those were old galvanized sections, probably original.

Its pretty cool how continuous aluminum gutters are formed - a machine in the back of a van.