first week at the farm ...

the big move has been made.  i feel very disconnected.  duncan asked me last night how the new place was shaping up.  i told him it was pretty much the same as when he was over the day i moved in.   boxes and stuff everywhere with just a few essentials unpacked.   it is getting better though.  and of course, when i'm feeling messy, i just 'man the fuck up' and go lift some heavy shit ...

thanks to these people, i am able to keep relatively sane!  

so here are a few shots from the farm.  my two guard dawgs - jackson and sienna.  just try coming into my place uninvited ...

my balcony - can you say spoiled ...

from the living room - if you look to the left you can see 'mister ed' ...

another shot of the balcony off my bedroom ...

i'm pretty sure i'll get used to this though ...

and of course, my favorite form of therapy - my trails ...

pulled on the hokas saturday and headed up k2, through glen haffy and north of 9 for a couple hours of dirt running.

love milkweed.  reminds me of walks with my brother ken back in peterborough.

saturday night was kind of a pylon reunion!  the captain's wife threw a retirement party - 30 years on the fire department - and actually invited us clowns!   even bart and laaaaadies man showed up!  can't believe moonie kept his pants on all night ...

ohmygawd!  sunday mass just about killed me.  did some REALLY heavy deadlifts with my awesome friend lisa - 36 of the suckers at 225lbs.  man my back was tight after that!!!

because my cuz karen lives 'north' of 7, i readily agreed to make the trip to barrie for an amazing turkey dinner cooked by her hubby jeff!  after stuffing myself with way too much food, i rolled away from the table and just hung out there for awhile!   love that we've stayed connected!

and finally, went back into cfb monday morning for some snatch practice and thrusters with the boys!

i leave you with this - kind of applies to a lot of things in my life ...

happy turkey day !!!

last week in the treehouse ...

 uh oh!  a fat bike sighting!  does this mean winter is just around the corner ...

our favorite gym rat 'poopie pants' got baptized last weekend - can she be any cuter !!??

did some fairly heavy back squats last week and of course just HAD to sport the latest t-shirt from 'lift big eat big' ...

another great friday night club pic!  jason 'I' forgot the memo about making a face ...

and it was kind of a sad day on wednesday -  i trained my last client at the treehouse.  very fitting that it was my super ironman friend janette ...

saturday was just an amazing day!  after getting duncan to help move the gym into bolton, i got out for a couple of hours on the bruce.

look up !

the pirate stream ...

awesome shot of the sun going down ...

the birthday tree ...

messing around ...

hanging around ...

basically loving life ...

and i leave you with this ...

'getting strong now'

the week started off great with a surprise gift from my buddy paul in australia!  check out the kool t-shirt - adelaide mountain bike club!  actually got two of them!   thanks paul!  i've been practicing my aussie slang for when (ever) i make it over there!
 

strong week for running too!  actually managed to put in 6 days!  haven't done that for awhile!  AND i got lost in palgrave on thursday?  wtf?! 

how did i end up HERE!?

the worst part is, once i got home and checked my gps thingy, i discovered i was at the south end of the forest, when i honestly believed i was north. 

EWWWW!  and wtf is THIS thing!?  they were all over in there ...

regardless, it was awesome!  love finding new places to run right in my backyard!

with my schedule this week, it made more sense to train friday afternoon instead of evening.  so, we took a 'matinee' pic.  and yes, it took a couple of attempts for me to trust that fig WASN'T going to drop me!  pretty kool shot though.   and did i mention that i did 16 deadlifts at 205!  owww!  that hurt!

father jimmy showed up just as we were finishing.  LOVE the shirt!!

on saturday, ghetto girls sarah, janner and jen donned their ears and braved the rain to run the zoo 5k!  awesome job ladies!

as for me, i wasn't so brave!  i procrastinated till almost 3 when the rain finally tapered off, and headed into palgrave for my 'long run' ...

i love the forest when it's like this ...

 yup - still sporting the hokas ...

what a beauty run!  i felt amazing and did over 90 minutes that seemed effortless!

 
sunday mass with father jimmy was INSANE this week.  talk about old school - me and jay were saying we couldn't remember the last time we did a workout that took so long!   5 rounds of 15 deadlifts, 12 hang power cleans, 9 front squats and 6 push jerks at 95lbs!  holy krap!  28 minutes!  i checked back and the last time i did this was in 2011 and it took me 41 minutes!   not too fucking bad!  my amazingly strong buddy lisa did it with 105lbs!  BEAST! oh, and i know this pic has NOTHING to do with today's wod, but lisa's in it and it's hilarious!   LOVE this chick!

and finally, finished off the day with a short romp through albion.

Trying hard now
It's so hard now
Trying hard now

Getting strong now
Won't be long now
Getting strong now

Gonna fly now
Flying high now
Gonna fly, fly, fly...