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#SilentSunday

#SilentSunday

A downy woodpecker spotted in the neighbourhood. I believe the area was developed in the 1950s so the trees are old enough for some to have died and then have enough bugs in them to attract these birds. Also saw a pileated woodpecker last year - those are the size of crows!

Wisdom teeth got taken out on Thursday and I've been forbidden intense exercise for a week or so.

It's Sunday and I really could go for some of those endorphins. But I also don't want to start bleeding all over the gym while trying to lift heavy.

#weightlifting #fitodon

Ice storm yesterday so I did leg day at home last night.

No squat rack or heavy weights, so this was all done with bodyweight and kettlebells or dumbbells:

- Pistol squats
- Reverse Nordics
- Kettlebell swings
- Single leg calf raises, on a kitchen stool holding a kettlebell.

Feeling it in a good way this morning.

Could have added some abs but core was not recovered from ab wheel rollouts I did the other day. Those are hard!

Freezing rain all today.

I'm annoyed because my plans for the day have to change. Trying to learn to be flexible, to understand when change happens due to things out of my control. But it's hard!!

Wow, ancient Live Laugh Love!

"On the steps of the Forum at Timgad, one board sums it all up with 'Hunting, bathing, gaming, laughing: that's living' (VENARI LAVARE LUDERE RIDERE OCCEST VIVERE)"

From SPQR by Mary Beard

Vivid dream last night of travelling, entering some cross-border train station/airport/checkpoint space. Odd tiled bathroom with a snack vending machine inside it. Chain-link fences. Crossing a narrow canal to a dusty parking lot and putting on a helmet to ride in an open-top car. Worried about not having enough cash and forgetting my passport.

I have patience for a lot of things.

Button fly pants are not one of those things.