Health & Fitness

It’s so darned hilly and winding and disconnecting one neighborhood from another, that people have a lot of bike racks here if they use real bikes. After a year of not continuing with normal bikes, the solution was to change our exercise program rain or shine with an indoor exercise bike. Believe me, they are not all created equal! The one we’ve…[Read more]

Or an exercise machine? I know those can be Internet capable to let you see views someone else recorded. I have considered getting a rowing machine for when it’s bad weather outside, but here, that’s generally just rain. I’d still ride my bike if I had any decent raingear 🙂

As for the hills, these days that’s what a “pedal-assist” ebike is for.…[Read more]

I haven’t been on a bike in years, but I do have a good quality mountain bike available to me if I wanted it. I have a beautiful trail behind my house that runs for about 7 km. Its along a creek in a mostly wooded area, and not at all busy. The trail itself is well-compacted gravel and in good condition. I’m also close to the Welland canal, which…[Read more]

The internets!

Unfortunately, SW PA terrain and neighborhoods here are separated by bad municipal planning, so years ago, we got a nice footprint of a bike with a good way of tracking. I watch and bike virtually via YouTube in places like Italy, Oregon or some scenic place with fast rave music or something. I combine this in good weather with…[Read more]

Paid about a hundred bucks to have it checked before we bought it. It was definitely a factor in the decisionmaking process on which house to buy. Definitely something to be aware of.

Which is not as much of a risk of exposure…

The funny thing ab0ut radon in the soil beneath houses is that radon can be at high levels in zone 3 for a given house, and the house next door will not be. It doesn’t evenly diffuse as a gas, and when it diffuses out of the ground with no structure above it, it freely dissipates to the air. It’s when…[Read more]

I’m in Mich. Looks like zone two but I am near a zone 1. What does that mean?

Where do you live again, @Pam2? Check out this map, and you can see why we have more reason to ask in the SW of PA…

https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-07/documents/zonemapcolor.pdf

Yes I heard about it, but I have enough stuff to worry about already! 😥

No granite and it’s sort of a half basement with a walk out. Also tiled. Do I need to panic?? 😱

A month to randomly become aware of things.

“Honey, I’m randomly aware today of how loudly you crunch your corn flakes!”

You could start a whole trend.

Which led to the random thought of how one would be aware of random. 😵‍💫

And in the office where I worked, north of Durham, on Roxboro  Road, four women I knew had breast cancer.  I thought it prudent to not live and work atop granite.

We’re about to have our basement renovated, which  means, seal the cracks in the foundation, skim coat and level it to put an honest flooring material down their. The old french drain around it is no longer needed, due to other measures to take care of the stormwater incursion. But, the mitigation of radon gas, even though less concentrated with…[Read more]