Sent: Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:24 AM
Recipients: Daughter, Son, Daughter-in-Law
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My home laptop is dying, so I had to send this to the office. Sorry about the length.
The women team sports are killing it! The US women’s water polo team kicked everyone’s asses and did that with their swimsuits up their butt crack!
The men’s decatholon was equally impressive. In honor of all their accomplishments, I was inspired from all their fitness to stop watching them and get busy outside!
My own decathalon:
- Pulled weeds from the brick culvert, the boat garden AND the north culvert – this is akin to arm movements in rowing.
- Due to all the rain, I was able to pry some of the larger stones from the muck and launch them up above the pipe – much like the shot put, just not as far. After pulling several weeds from the rocks that looked a LOT like poison something, I took a break and washed up…even remembered to wash my leather gloves due to the poison stuff.
- After an orange juice break, I went back out to weed-eat the entire driveway – like all the way to the barn! I made it a bit more difficult on the way up be holding the mail in my left hand and wacking with my right – BALANCE was required.
- Finished reclaiming the rock bed at the front of the house. Its impressive how many rocks I’ve managed to get out of the bed and in the yard, but they are much easier to pry up when the ground is wet.
- I finished burying one entire strand of the invisible fence in the rock, so its finally living up to its name of actually being invisible. I blew off the grass from the rock beds, but used the mower to clean the driveway.
- There was a break in all the rainstorms, so I got in the pool and treaded water in the deep end for 11 minutes as a nod to the water polo team, but had to quit because it started raining and I worried it might lightening which I thought would be bad since I was swimming alone. I wasn’t passing a ball or wearing those uncomfortable looking swimsuits, but I was happy with 11 minutes.
- The rain stopped and the sun came out, so I got back in. I tried some synchronized swimming moves, but it was a hard sell because I was alone in the pool and did not have gelatin in my hair. I did not move on to the final heat.
- I moved on to jogging in the shallow end which of course got me disqualified from ‘speed walking’ because I did not maintain foot contact with the floor of the pool.
- Oh yeah….made ‘Spicey Chicken and Korean Rick Cakes” from Blue Apron. Their list of 11 ingredients did not intimidate in the slightest. This is not an event, but it could probably qualify!
- Power washed 5 segments of the deck and also some of the rock bed. I’ll need to get a long hose to totally do the rock beds. This is harder than it looks.
Yesterday, in the final heat, I treaded water for 15 minutes since it didn’t rain. I could NEVER measure up to the athletes, but it was fun watching them!
Actual Olympic observations:
- I have to ask…did the Serbian’s bring a super big boat load of fans, or was the entire crowd against the US women’s volleyball team?
- The women’s 4×100 relay managed to win with one member wearing what looked like a mini-pad around her knee. It was probably tape, but it truly looked suspicious.
- With the insane new scoring system in judging in gymnastics….I truly miss the comments like “and a disappointing 6.5 from the German judge”. An entire generation has now missed out on the simple scoring of 1-10 and will unfortunately never see a perfect 10. I remember jumping off the couch when Mary Lou and Keri got their 10’s.
- It was nice to take the trip down memory lane with the ‘Karoli’ documentary they did. I did NOT know they defected from Communist Romania at the end of the Olympics in the US so many years ago. It was awesome to see Mary Lou and Keri Strug again.
- In the equestrian events, I think the horses should get premium oats and carrots in a gold bucket if they win – they did most of the work! Actually, they might…I didn’t actually watch any finals in that event.
LOve to you all…
Mom
Notes: I’m sorry about the FUN FRIDAY BONUS POST. I just couldn’t help it. Because this reacap was EVERYTHING. As a former synchronized swimmer myself, I snort laughed over the gelatin line. I’m wildly proud of her decathlon. While simultaneously wondering how much time it took to think of how each of her activities related to Olympic sports…
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