Day 270

Today was a difficult to describe.  We drove to Helena to meet with our adoption agency to finalize our paperwork and officially begin "waiting" for a child to become available for adoption.

Well, about 9pm tonight we got a phone call that I child had been born in a nearby hospital, and the mother wanted to place the baby for adoption, and we were first on the list.

What usually takes months took only hours and now we are emotionally exhausted and drained and we have got a LOT of getting ready to do. We pick the baby up on Saturday.

Day 269

Picked up a little more wood for the squat rack platform and went and ate mexican with the family. Going to visit our social worker tomorrow, we've been working on our home study for a domestic adoption for the last few months, got all our stuff finished.

Day 268

Worked in the garage to get things better organized, but not much. I've got a good bit more stuff than I planned.

Need to sell some stuff and throw some stuff away.

Hoping to start the cube method for strongman next week. It isn't very different from what I've already been doing in the past, and I think it is a good general way to organize training.

Day 267

Blood Pressure: 136/81 [This creeps up when I let the bloat come on.  If I low carb I can get under 120.]
Bodyweight: 295.2 [somehow I've lost 5 pounds... must be that box of girl scout cookies and 3 quarts of milk I had the other day]

Well, the last stone rolled out of my little private gym today. Half of it is in the garage, the other half in the back yard.

If backyard training was good enough for Paul Anderson, it's good enough for me.

Will I miss the gym? Meh, a little. Will I enjoy getting my home setup complete? Sure.  Honestly  I feel pretty neutral about the whole thing. It's time for something different, and it's that something different I'm looking forward to.

Day 266

Woke up and got the fire stoked good and we just sat and visited this morning and drank a bunch of coffee with the In-Laws. 

Then church, Real Good.

Then a good lunch brought to us by my perfect bride.

Then I had to go to work for a while and fill a gap in the schedule.

Then I came home and hung out with my favorite 5 year old.

It ended up being a pretty good day.

Still no training, I've got to get my home gym set up, so I'll be doing that this week.

Day 265

helped Tim get his squat rack and plates to his storage unit.  Then went to a weightlifting meet at All In Crossfit in Auburn and watched my buddy Zack compete. He did real well.

Then went back to the gym for more. 

You know what is hard to move?... Things that are intentionally heavy. We got my yoke, my tires and the rest of my plates...  I have a lot of plates...

My In-laws are in town, and I about worked my father-in-law to death. It's amazing all the things the gym Accumulated

Oh, and it also snowed at one point...  So thanks for nothing, March..

Day 264

I hooked up the trailer and met a buddy up at the gym.  We unbolted and dragged rubber mats until out fingers hurt..

If I ever promote a strongman show it's going to have a horse stall mat drag medley....  They are the hardest thing to move.

Anyway, we got the first load on the trailer and took it back to my garage.  I'm already exhausted and we've got a bunch more trips.