4th of July and a couple of lessons.
I learned a couple of things this weekend:
1. Don't pour gas on a smoldering fire directly from the gas can. I actually knew this already, but I thought I could be quicker than science. Anyway, we now have a big dead patch of grass in our backyard.
2. Don't get old and fat. I haven't ever liked excercise that much, but wanted to start. Thursday morning I decided to go on a walk. I was feeling pretty good, so I mixed up my two mile walk with a bit of running (I don't think I've been running for 10 years or so). I felt pretty good all day Thursday and even into Friday morning. By Friday evening though I could barely walk. The heel on my right foot was incredibly painful. Saturday morning I went into a medical clinic. They did an x-ray. Luckily I didn't break anything, but had suffered some minor tears in my achiles tendon. It's finally starting to heal.
Other than that we had a fun weekend. Curtis and Shandy came up from Provo. We built a fire pit, barbequed some chicken and vegetables, saw Superman at the Drive-in, and played some games.
Yesterday we went to the Rexburg 4th of July parade. It's sort of lame, I can only watch so many old cars, tractors, and flat-bed semi trucks with dancing 8 year-olds. Kevin and Ethan had a blast and it was fun watching them chasing down thrown candy. That evening we went to Jon and Kristi's house for dinner. We played lawn darts and had good food. We topped it all off by lighting six bucks worth of safe and sane fireworks (courtesy of Jon and Kristi) at our place.
Fun with Sparklers, 4th of July, 2006
Firework (flower I think), 4th of July, 2006
1. Don't pour gas on a smoldering fire directly from the gas can. I actually knew this already, but I thought I could be quicker than science. Anyway, we now have a big dead patch of grass in our backyard.
2. Don't get old and fat. I haven't ever liked excercise that much, but wanted to start. Thursday morning I decided to go on a walk. I was feeling pretty good, so I mixed up my two mile walk with a bit of running (I don't think I've been running for 10 years or so). I felt pretty good all day Thursday and even into Friday morning. By Friday evening though I could barely walk. The heel on my right foot was incredibly painful. Saturday morning I went into a medical clinic. They did an x-ray. Luckily I didn't break anything, but had suffered some minor tears in my achiles tendon. It's finally starting to heal.
Other than that we had a fun weekend. Curtis and Shandy came up from Provo. We built a fire pit, barbequed some chicken and vegetables, saw Superman at the Drive-in, and played some games.
Yesterday we went to the Rexburg 4th of July parade. It's sort of lame, I can only watch so many old cars, tractors, and flat-bed semi trucks with dancing 8 year-olds. Kevin and Ethan had a blast and it was fun watching them chasing down thrown candy. That evening we went to Jon and Kristi's house for dinner. We played lawn darts and had good food. We topped it all off by lighting six bucks worth of safe and sane fireworks (courtesy of Jon and Kristi) at our place.
Fun with Sparklers, 4th of July, 2006
Firework (flower I think), 4th of July, 2006
10 Comments:
Cool fireworks! Sounds like you had a great weekend. So did we. Wish you could have been here, too.
And they say you "can't teach an old dog new tricks"! Ha!
At least you turned your experiences into life's lessons.
Too bad we weren't invited.
If we had been invited, we could have spelled out "2006" with sparklers.
They didn't invite us either! (But we were busy otherwise!)
as one fat man to another: slow & steady wins the race!
as one pyromaniac to another: play with fire and get burned. (actually, you're lucky that you only burned the grass)!
I did kind of the same thing to my ankle when I started running in January. But, I took some time off and let it heal, then started running again, and I have been fine. Keep up the good work. I think you guys party a lot at your house. Never a dull moment.
Yeh, we're one party after another. You know us, the party animals. Come on up and join us.
$6.00! Man I must have gotten taken! I had to spend close to $20 for our safe & legal fireworks!
Darren didn't tell us that the reason he got hurt was he doesn't believe in warming up or even stretching before running, or after 10 years of not running.
You should see Darren's impression of the pre-excercise warmup.
I think I have seen it Jon. Does it involve a trip to Horkley's?
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