Firepit and Yard Work

I have been working hard on getting my fire pit area in the back yard nice looking. It was fully overgrown, and that took some time to do the weeding. After slaving away for several days and some help from some great friend and roommates I have finally finished. Cant wait for summer nights having bbq's and sitting by the fire.

After weeding this I decided to put down some serious 1 year weed and grass protection spread some extra mulch in the area to make it look nicer.



The joys of owning an older home are the neat little things I find all over. The machete was in the ghetto garden storage area I had. I found the other tool in the dirt while weeding.




This chair looked awesome against the red fence.


Old rusted antique wheel barrow that was in the back yard when I moved in. Works just great and I use it a lot.

Logan.... Pocatello

I got the tour of Logan... I haven been up there a few times, but never gone to any of these places.

First stop was the sock shop. I bought several biking socks and the sales guy gave me a very comfortable (FREE) pair of bamboo socks. I was impressed at how comfortable and cozy they were.

Next stop was Gossner's Swiss Cheese factory. Mmmmmm

They had reduced fat Lacy Swiss cheese! So awesome

Third stop was Pepperidge Farm factory. Bags of goldfish for cheap.. Also a great find was this gold fish shirt. I love it.

The final stop was Casper's Ice Cream. Home of the Fat boy ice cream sandwich. Couldn't resist getting a fat boy and some ice cream.

POCATELLO RACING
The race course was a 25 mile loop laps outside of Pocatello. I road the course and it was really nice. The first half of the course was wonderful... some downhill and pretty much flat the whole time. It was nice just out there riding. The second half was some climbing and well the last 3 miles is through a canyon gap with climbing grades exceeding 7%. Needless to say when it was over I was exhausted and super hot.

Before the race... when we were happy and full of energy


First lap right after the huge three mile climb




Jeff Clawson after his first lap




Jason finishing


Alex finishing


Sorry Erin I didn't get any pictures of you.

Steal of a Deal

I love Big Lots and getting deals. Today I went to look for patio lanterns, but didn't find any I liked. Instead I found some great deals... All this for $20.00. I got a blue tote to hold fire wood. The best part is Gatorade powder that makes a gallon of Gatorade for $1.00 a packet. Great deal!!

Cycling Songs

So our St. George ride is 9 days away and lets just say I am very aware of how fast it is approaching. I am getting excited and nervous and all that. Anyway I am wanting to create a play list to listen to. The hard thing with biking to St. George is that for biking that far you need pump up music, but you also need really good overall music so that each song isn't this pump up jam song. I need suggestions of some good songs... I am pretty out of the loop with most music so be specific about what song and what artist.