Today is going to be one of those days where is the glass half empty or is the glass half full.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013.

Still take an intentional fitness walk every single day.

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This past weekend I was doing some yard work. Up against the back fence is a garden plot.

We have blackberry bushes in this little garden. And they provide usually end of June,

into July, several weeks. These black these blackberries oh they are so good and I go out

every morning and I pick the ripe blackberries and then I mix them with yogurt and these vines

produce way more blackberries than I can eat over the several weeks where it's producing them.

And so I freeze them.

And I actually was able to use last summer's blackberries until February.

So I'm a gentleman blackberry farmer.

Anyhow, so we've got this plot where the blackberry bushes are, and they're right up against the fence.

But I think this area, this garden had more stuff in it from the previous homeowner, maybe the other stuff didn't survive and she pulled it out.

I know that there was, there were a couple of things in there when we moved in that Ava said,

don't need this and pulled them out.

So we've got this really large garden in the back with not much in it other than the blackberry bushes.

And so I spend an awful lot of time pulling weeds and putting down mulch in this garden for nothing and

I'm like why why am I doing that and so I made the decision over the winter to make that

garden plot smaller.

To remove a lot of the mulch, to get the soil prepared, and then to plant grass seed.

And so this past weekend I did the work.

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