{"id":2446,"date":"2008-08-04T20:23:54","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T01:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2008-08-04T20:30:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T01:30:12","slug":"the-best-part-of-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2446","title":{"rendered":"The best part of weight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

is the things you can do. <\/p>\n

A year ago I would not have been able ot mow my backyard, by myself, at all.<\/p>\n

This year, I’ve mowed the lawn over and over again, by myself, in about twenty minutes flat. No huffing and puffing. My heart rate increases but I’m back to normal in a very few minutes. The last three weeks, I have not been able to mow, partially because of shoulder injury, partially because there was NO DAMNED RAIN.<\/p>\n

Now, there’s been rain, and the backyard has sprung up like nobody;s business. SO I got out there tonight and mowed. <\/p>\n

First of all, I have to say once again that the reccomends I got from Chris Byr<\/a>ne for boots (Danner Desert Acadia) Time was, I wore my “work” shoes to mow. Translation: Old street shoes, too worn to polish up anymore. Lots of times I took the laces out, to make it easier to get in and out of them in a hurry. And consequently, it killed my feet and legs. See, I would have to spend a whole lot of time worrying about my footing, wiht sloppy, loose fitting shoes, and it made mowing that much harder. And with a decent pair of boots, it’s (literally) a no brainer. As the boots held me in good stead on my hike<\/a>, I’m inclined to get another pair for work, and wonder if I can get street shoes from Danner.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the back slope is done, after helping the neighbor diagnose bad spark plugs in his truck.And since today, it rained like a horse pissing on a flat rock for two hours, it’s incredibly humid, so I wore a short sleeved teeshirt, someting I almost never do. <\/p>\n

And the last thing I did before I put the mower away was to drive the damned thing through a cloit of poison ivy the size of an ottoman.
\nforearm.jpg<\/p>\n

yeah, that’s all pureed poison ivy, leaking oil of urushiol, and all over my upper body, face, arms, hair. <\/p>\n

I took that picture, and got my ass in the shower asap. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

is the things you can do. A year ago I would not have been able ot mow my backyard, by myself, at all. This year, I’ve mowed the lawn over and over again, by myself, in about twenty minutes flat. No huffing and puffing. My heart rate increases but I’m back to normal in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}