Racers!

Adidas ZXRacers here.  I love these.  SUPER comfortable trainer with a fantastic, classic look.

This yellow is a bit intense (the stripes are a purple, eggplantish color), but they look surprisingly good on.  Strange, but nice.

White and red.

Blue and white.

Campus Life (adidas style)

Adidas Campus II trainer.  Really nice shoe here.  Nice dark colorway with the royal blue stripe.  These also fit really well.

Adidas Americana

I’ve seen these (in pictures) with just blue stripes.  I’d love that.  This is a bit more Capt. America than I’m used to, but I do like them a lot.  These are some VERY comfortable trainers.  The nylon mesh is reminiscent of the Rod Laver style.  Good trainer here.

 

Hosta Fest 2009

I expanded the Hosta Patch the other day.  As I posted earlier, digging up the sod was HARD, but I think it’s worth it.  The new part is probably 5 feet by 4 feet  or so.  I just eyeballed it.  I needed to transplant a few plants (including the Happy Camper and the Mac the Knife - both in the upper right of the patch), and then I planted the four new guys I got:

JUNE:

GOLDEN TIARA:

BIG DADDY:

OLIVE BAILEY LANGDON:

These are some sweet variegated species!  June and Olive Bailey have both been Hosta of the Year in the past, so I was very happy to get those.  The Big Daddy is a great blue! 

Hopefully everyone will be happy and thrive!

hot days…

Yesterday I got the hosta patch in order.  Diggin’ up the sod is DAMN hard.  I am happy to finally have moved a few guys around and plant the newest acquisitions.  Photographs to follow!

I got a good run in this morning (second this week).  I went before it got too hot, which was smart.  I took a new route, through one of the three cemeteries in the neighborhood.  (As Allen said – “Run with the dead!”)  I think it was slightly shorter than my usual, but I was still happy with it.

More soon!

new newer and news…

Lately, when I’m not busy watching Rachel Maddow I’ve been really stoked on finding a sweet adidas outlet store about 30 minutes from my house.  NICE!  I’ve been there twice and I found some pretty sweet trainers that will be up on here soon.

In other recent happenings, the close of the first half of the season for my pub team came to a close with a cracking win.  Check out the blog and the photographs here!  No, your eyes don’t deceive you…the photographs near the end do feature your humble bloggist…in my finest celebratory mode.  I had just scored my first goal! 

Summer is here, and as you know, here at A Casual Weblog, that means a bit of hosta patch maintenance.  I got some lovely hostas from my mother in law and I’ll be posting a bit more on that as the days pass on.

Also I scored a sweet SWEET early birthday present from the in laws in the form of a brilliant laptop.  As I type this, I’m comfortably ensconced on the couch watching the top 5 goals of the week.  Amazing.  Stay tuned!

Classic footwear…

I’ve been rocking the old Vans recently.  I used to wear Vans constantly (about 15 years ago),  then they outsourced all their production and I didn’t really buy another pair for years.  This pair are very comfy.  I had to shorten the laces, because they were ridiculous.  Classic.  Summer.  Hardcore. GO!

Standard, classic.

I’m back, baby!!!

It’s been a month. Three of those weeks I was without a computer due to a faulty motherboard. (More on that later.) I am back and I will be publishing stuff on here again soon! Stay tuned!

Of Adidas Trainers, and other things that make life good…

Aditennis in canvas.  Nice shoe.  Very nice color ways for this season, too.  Be careful with the sizing.  I take a 1/2 size smaller in this than nay other Adidas trainer.

In other news, running has been quite good!  On days that I don’t feel like running outside I’ve been working the elliptical trainer.  On other days I’ve been rocking the fartlek!  Also, I’ve started running steps again, which is still a killer, but oddly, easier than it was even six months ago, so there’s something!  I’ve been trying to increase the length of my runs slightly, just to see what happens.  So far it’s feeling pretty good.  Springtime is here, as are the rains.  BRING IT!

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