2:08!!!

Up before dawn on a Saturday morning...What's wrong with this picture??

I told you about this, remember?

Getting ready to run 

We arrived at 6:30 am and milled around in 46 degree pre-sunrise glory                            with a pretty stiff wind.  Guess what?  A hoodie was not enough!

We met some interesting new friends today....... 

Ohhh, this one.  I would have taken a picture from behind but your husbands are just too young to see what was there!!

And some old ones...

Poor Carolyn, Trevor sprained himself pretty good by jumping off a second story baloney onto a mattress and pillows.  So happy I had dainty, quiet girls (LOL)

Let's head to the startline...

get ready...

get set...

Go...

Eric Mohler (in the white shirt)

He had three goals:

finish the race

don't get hurt

finish under 2 hours

2 out of three aren't bad and that ankle will heal, eventually

Jenny Deering in purple

She had a goal:

finish under 2 hours

one out of one, cool !

261 - running at his own pace

His goals:

finish the race

finish under 2 hours 10 minutes

three miles, closest that I could get for photo ops :-(

kids race, check out Hannah Mohler's stride!

She is in the blue top and black shorts in the middle front

Trevor Mohler, how do you stride with four legs?

Charlie hasn't learned to like me yet, but he will

Hannah placed third behind a couple BIG boys,

still, check that stride!!

Michael Mohler with Charlie cheering him on

Justin Mohler, looks like he has that Mohler talent.

Good kids, awesome family!!

Now for the winner of the race....

1 hr 16 minutes
Don't remember his name, too bad

Eric Mohler 1 hour and 54 minutes.

Jenny Deering 1 hour and 58 minutes, didn't get the picture

and of course I messed up on Richard's finish but...

2 hours 8 minutes

Winner in My World!!

Awesome!!!

What happens in Vegas....

Obviously doesn't stay here or you'd NEVER get a blog from us!!

Your dad/poppa has taken up running again (yes, well some of you may have vague memories from 20 years ago, maybe not).

This is how it started, a random invite on facebook:






This destination race starts right outside of Las Vegas, Nevada in beautiful Boulder City. It descends from Bootleg Canyon Park down into Lake Mead National Park where it finishes on the beach. This breathtaking course is perfect for beginners, as well as those looking to best their time. The Saints and Sinners half Marathon is primarily downhill on paved bike trails. Most of the course follows Lake Mead’s Historic Railroad Tunnel Trail on the mountainside above the lake. The trail includes a series of five tunnels constructed in 1931 where runners can cool off in the shade as they experience a taste of history. It then descends two more miles down to Lake Mead’s Event Beach for the finish line festivities.

(I didn't write the description, I wouldn't have made it sound so fun)

And now the proof is in the training....

 

come on.......stretching is important....

and he's off

only 3 miles today

shots of part of the trail because it is pretty

The trail under Pecos, it seems to take forever for the city to clean up after our thunder storms.  He tells me now that it is clear and he doesn't have to dodge cars while crossing the road.                           Thank Goodness!

Another successful day!

I didn't get to his starting point before him to get pictures of his arrival because I stopped to look at and take pictures at the underpass.  He is excited to run again and is really enjoying himself.

[wondering how I took pictures during his run?  I have remembered that I also have a bicycle, however I haven't lost 30lbs :-( ]     

Maybe one of these days I blog our progress on the bathroom.....maybe....

About Those Bruises....

Thought that I would explain away all the bruises that I have had on my arms, hips and legs.

This is where I spent some real 'quality time'. We ran some new electrical wires, installed lights in the shower and added some plumbing.

I can bend over and touch the floor, something that Richard can't, and that qualifies me as an attic crawler.

I climbed through the rafters and then laid across them, about 24" spread, to keep from going through the ceiling.


These are nails for the roof tiles, not too fun when I raised my head too fast and got puncher wounds in my brain. It was helpful, however, to air out my head!


This area of the attic is about 18" to 6" high at the end on the roof, a particularly fun place where we placed one of the shower lights.

I haven't been in the attic since the end of June and the bruises are almost completely healed. Yeah! Holes in the head, however, are permanent!

Time for a New Adventure?

Here is the outstanding, builder grade
(we know the 'grade' of this builder)
shower that is nearly 20 years
old, ugly, leaky and elbow bruising.

Poor Richard, working
all alone to remove
the shower surround
(we know, of course,
that he had help but
she is camera shy.
No, wait, I mean
the camera woman)

Looking better already!

We added the new wall first and then
will move the electrical, plumbing and exhaust
vent pipe. This is a good look at the space taken
from the bedroom and added into the bathroom.

15 inches.

It is so interesting that the bedroom doesn't feel
like it lost much, if any, space and the bathroom
feelings like it gained 10 feet! Richard explains it
as percentages, little percentage lost from the
good-sized bedroom and much gained in the
smallish bathroom.

New wall from the bedroom side. We really like
the angle, it makes a lot more sense now. Before
the angled wall was 45 inches, now it is 24 inches
and has balance and harmony.

Go figure?

I always hated the 45 inch wall, what do you do
with that? We hung pictures because no furniture
could fit on it because anything we put there
blocked the doorway. The return in the
original wall was only a couple of inches before the
doorway, now it is 18 inches. The whole room
feels better and we find that amazing!

Now we need to move the utilities...

This is a good view of the bathtub with the
'prayer step' removed. You probably don't
know what I mean unless you have gone
with us into a Catholic church/cathedral.
They have these little bench steps that fold
down for use and then back up out of the way.
That is what the bathtub step always
reminded me of.

When we sit on the lip of the tub (to discuss
bathroom remodel, of course!) it feels like a
new space, very different feeling with the
step gone. We are loving it!

View into the space between floor
and kitchen ceiling.

New route for the plumbing.

We are adding a shower tower which has
a rain shower head, 6 body sprays and a
hand held shower head. Then we are running
another line into the ceiling and adding
another rain shower head that will come
from the ceiling. There will also be a light in
the shower which will be over the bench.
Talk about luxury, I can sit to shave my legs,
heck, we can both just sit because
we are old and weary!

Just another view of the hole in the floor.

Richard worked on this on Saturday, after I left
for work. When I got home I started to explore in
the dark, so glad that I listened to that still, small
voice and turned the light on (extremely low,
without a door I was concerned that it would
wake Richard) otherwise I would have ended
up in the kitchen sink!

We have framed in a

doorway for the
water closet. We
think that the builder
really missed, they
could have so easily
put a door in here.

The clothes closet,
when we are
completely done with
the renovation will
have a pocket door,
which will mean that
a person standing at
the sink will NOT get
knocked in the back
of the head and fall
into the sink anymore,

so sorry, Richard!!!

Stay tuned for following episodes...

Introducing the newest Woody...

here are a few pictures of our new little guy, his name is Ezra Richard; 8lbs 1oz. and 19 inches long.


I think he looks a lot like his big brother but there is some Sutton in there as well, check out the Marriotti lips!