Today’s main labor, time-wise, was working at digging a hole to plant a bush. The bush has flowers that hummingbirds like. Digging the hole is slow-going, because the soil is very hard and I had to use a pick and a digging bar, more commonly known locally as a “caliche bar,” to break up the earth so it could be scooped out.
I started the job yesterday, with a shovel, like the guy in the photo above this paragraph. But soon I had to resort to a pick, like one of the guys in the top photo above is holding. Today, I had to make a trip to the hardware store to get a 16 pound digging bar which is a steel rod about 6 feet long. It weighs 16 pounds, is pointed at one end and has a chisel-head on the opposite end. It works well, a few inches at a time.
By the time the hole is complete, it will not be as deep as the impressively deep hole in the above photo. It will only be a little more than two feet deep, but each inch requires a lot of pounding and scraping. If the thought occurs to me tomorrow, I’ll take a picture of the hole I dug.
For today’s rowing, the main session was 10K online in the company of a rower who was located in Canada. I mostly rowed a constant pace and he rowed about the same average pace but he did one minute or so sprints, every thousand meters or so. There was also a 5 minute warmup and warm down before and after.
The heart rate graph is very sloppy because the heart was “hiccuping” today. But otherwise everything felt normal.
Happy and heart-hiccup-free rowing to you.