New work

I'll be spending July and August in Baltimore as part of the on-orbit calibration team, but before I go, I need to deal with this: a 10 ton mound of pea gravel sitting in our driveway. The easy part --- mulching the nearby xeric bed --- is done. Now, we have to move the remaining mountain down the driveway, through the back yard and up the hill to the rock garden in the front. After moving the first several loads yesterday, I added a new workout to my iFitness log, where each trip up the hill is a rep and the weight is the number of shovel-fulls of gravel in each wheelbarrow load. I think by the end, I will have arms and shoulders like Michelle Obama.