Dog on the Rocks

Quincy Ready to Go. Funky Photo taken in HDR, processed in Photoshop CS5

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Knitting?  It's not happening. It's not diagnosed yet, but my right arm is still just not working right. Probably still has something to do with my neck but who knows. I can get in about 5 minutes, but then I'm done.  For the day.  With Everything. Typeing on here is not so hot either, I now use a pen tablet, instead of a mouse, and that seems to help. I also type a lot just pecking here and there.  And, I've taught myself to do a lot of things left handed on here.  It's slow but it works.

I miss my knitting.  And, my knitting friends, which sadly seem to have fallen away as well.  If it was something I said or did, I'm sorry.  We sure did have some fun times!  Man, the laughing that went on!  Knitting was fun, but it seems to be gone now.... Sad

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Red Rocks Ampitheater is the place to go if you want to walk massive sets of steps and if you want to meet a ton of other dogs.  It's also the place to go if you want to see Nine Inch Nails, U2, Neil Diamond, Wynonna Judd, and everyone in between play in concert.  During the day- Workout Torture, During the night-Eardrum Torture.  Take your pick.  Har....

Today marks my first day of "doing the rocks" 9 times in a row. I've never made it this far and I'm pretty proud of  myself.  Getting off my butt and doing something feels GREAT! We have a system...

1 time up the outside "white" steps (concrete, smooth regular intervals of about 20 steps evenly spaced) then back down

1 time up the "Red" steps, the interier steps on the inside next to the seating (rough red rock steps two at a time with a long stride in between)

1 Time up the middle "seats," see the #'s up there? and see my friend's leg?  Those are the seats and they really are about at knee height. 

This is a SET.  Rinse and Repeat three times and you have "Done the Rocks" 

Soon we will add to the set with climbing all the planters and running up the "white" steps.  Yes, running.  And, we've gotta get all this in before the end of October beginning of November when we get our normal first snow.  Gotta do it....  I'm skiing more than 6 times this year.  I will.....

My legs work, my feet are in good shape (but you may remember all these steps are how I broke one of them in the first place), I'm pretty healthy, I've got a great family, great husband, great kids, great friends, and a great church.  What more can a girl ask for?!!

A dog that likes to do steps too?  Check Check!

Comments

[Terrie]

That's a cool picture! Quincy is adorable :) Great job on "Doing the Rocks"!!

I'm sorry you arm is still hurting :( It really sucks that you're not able to do much knitting or even typing without it hurting. I really miss our knitting group, too! What are you doing next Friday? I have a sewing class tomorrow night, but I'm really hoping we can get together next week and maybe get our knitting group started up again.

Take care, and I hope to see you SOON!! :)

[Nicole]

Ack no knitting! :( I also miss the knitting thing. I don't have any excuses anymore as my rehearsal moved to a different night. I just have to get my act together and go. :) Loving the pics on your blog, btw.

[Kim]

Miss you too, MK! You don't need to knit to hangout but we haven't gotten together since. . .camp maybe? We're just lame and/or busy, I think.

Great pic of Quincy! I love that you walk the steps at Red Rocks--that is a fantastic workout. And I know that you are not saying that Nine Inch Nails is torture ;)

Hang in there and enjoy those workouts!

[Wanda]

Good for you for getting up and exercising! That's awesome. I haven't been doing much knitting either. I don't think any of us have gotten together since about camp either, honestly. I've been busy with thesis, so I haven't even bothered asking, as I'm in my own little world right now. I'm basically out of the loop until the beginning of November, as I'm going out of the town the 20th through 30th of this month too. Hopefully we can get together again soon.