Comments on: Building strength: Training for spring http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/02/04/building-strength-training-for-spring/ Hardy plants for hardy souls Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:24:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kathy Purdy http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/02/04/building-strength-training-for-spring/comment-page-1/#comment-14542 Kathy Purdy Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:18:02 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/02/04/building-strength-training-for-spring/#comment-14542 MSS: My little corner of the state is only getting a modicum of snow, an inch here or there. My sister on the shore of Lake Ontario, her situation is quite different. There has been a lake effect snow cloud hovering over their town for days, and they are now measuring snow in feet, not inches. We can "live like that" because we prepare for it, with insulated houses, insulated parkas, and studded snow tires. I wouldn't trade our winter weather for your summer weather, no way, no how. Ilona and Mary Ann, thank you for your support. I do want to be an inspiration; I want all of us to be gardening in our eighties and nineties. We have to be in training for the future! MSS: My little corner of the state is only getting a modicum of snow, an inch here or there. My sister on the shore of Lake Ontario, her situation is quite different. There has been a lake effect snow cloud hovering over their town for days, and they are now measuring snow in feet, not inches. We can “live like that” because we prepare for it, with insulated houses, insulated parkas, and studded snow tires. I wouldn’t trade our winter weather for your summer weather, no way, no how.

Ilona and Mary Ann, thank you for your support. I do want to be an inspiration; I want all of us to be gardening in our eighties and nineties. We have to be in training for the future!

]]> By: M Sinclair Stevens (Texas) http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/02/04/building-strength-training-for-spring/comment-page-1/#comment-14510 M Sinclair Stevens (Texas) Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:12:35 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/02/04/building-strength-training-for-spring/#comment-14510 You're doing much better than I am on following through on your resolutions. And, oh my! The snow you've been getting. I watch the news and can't believe y'all can live like that. Yesterday it was unusually warm down here--sunny and in the high 70s. I was thinking of you and Firefly @ Sweetpea Chronicles in Maine and wishing there was a way to send you both some of our weather. You’re doing much better than I am on following through on your resolutions.

And, oh my! The snow you’ve been getting. I watch the news and can’t believe y’all can live like that. Yesterday it was unusually warm down here–sunny and in the high 70s. I was thinking of you and Firefly @ Sweetpea Chronicles in Maine and wishing there was a way to send you both some of our weather.

]]> By: ilona http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/02/04/building-strength-training-for-spring/comment-page-1/#comment-14267 ilona Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:48:06 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/02/04/building-strength-training-for-spring/#comment-14267 I am very impressed! You are an inspiration in more ways than one! This has to bode well for gardening efforts this spring:) May we see the fruits of our labors- with all this muscle power. Go {{Woman}} I am very impressed! You are an inspiration in more ways than one!
This has to bode well for gardening efforts this spring:) May we see the fruits of our labors- with all this muscle power. Go {{Woman}}

]]> By: Mary Ann http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/02/04/building-strength-training-for-spring/comment-page-1/#comment-14259 Mary Ann Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:31:34 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/02/04/building-strength-training-for-spring/#comment-14259 wow! she's a pumping iron! You grow girl. That's awesome. That does it, I am putting on the yoga clothes and headed out to be a pretzel this morning. And to think I was waffling before I saw that picture of you. Great inspiration. wow! she’s a pumping iron! You grow girl. That’s awesome. That does it, I am putting on the yoga clothes and headed out to be a pretzel this morning. And to think I was waffling before I saw that picture of you. Great inspiration.

]]> By: Kathy Purdy http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/02/04/building-strength-training-for-spring/comment-page-1/#comment-14077 Kathy Purdy Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:39:57 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/02/04/building-strength-training-for-spring/#comment-14077 Carol, the bar is 20 lbs. and each weight is 7.5 lbs, so I'm already doing 35lbs for my squats. Dead lifts are another matter . . . Genie, thanks for the encouragement! Carol, the bar is 20 lbs. and each weight is 7.5 lbs, so I’m already doing 35lbs for my squats. Dead lifts are another matter . . .

Genie, thanks for the encouragement!

]]> By: Genie http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/02/04/building-strength-training-for-spring/comment-page-1/#comment-14066 Genie Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:41:12 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/02/04/building-strength-training-for-spring/#comment-14066 Keep up the good work -- weightlifting is so great for increasing bone density as well as preparing for hauling compost. I'm impressed! Keep up the good work — weightlifting is so great for increasing bone density as well as preparing for hauling compost. I’m impressed!

]]> By: Carol http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/02/04/building-strength-training-for-spring/comment-page-1/#comment-14059 Carol Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:47:34 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/02/04/building-strength-training-for-spring/#comment-14059 You go girl! Gotta be able to lift 40 pounds by spring! You go girl! Gotta be able to lift 40 pounds by spring!

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