Putting the arm in farm

As cheesey as the title sounds, that's exactly what Steve and I did, and we have the sore muscles to prove it.  We spent the weekend fencing our new 2,000 square foot garden.  After much consideration, pacing, marking, measuring we brought out the good ol' Ford PowerMaster and started drilling one of five holes that would serve as corner posts around the garden.  Sounds easy.  It is once you hand dig past the 15 inches of clay.  Steve had me laughing with his haunting spiritual songs about digging clay.  We spent the first day hand digging, until we could hardly lift our arms, between the 16 lb. bar for breaking up the dirt, and the hand post hole digger, we are definitely more fit today than yesterday.  Upon burying each post 36 inches, we started pounding in t-posts in between each wooden posts.  Late in the day on Sunday, we got out the rotatiller and went around the garden twice, hand digging our 'rabbit moat'.  See photo above for results.  That was all she wrote for the weekend, we crawled into the hot tub and thanked our lucky stars for the extra space to grow our own food!  Next stop: 4 ft. wire fence and chicken wire in the moat!

Just Wondering

So upon ascent up the mighty Berthoud Pass last Wednesday morning, I spied a helicopter obviously circling and searching on the steep slopes of the formidable mountain.  We pondered a host of situations that could lead someone to be caught with their ski pants down in the backcountry.  We passed Search and Rescue trucks, Sheriffs, and more cars that hinted at an active search.  Wow!  This is exciting in a horribly life/death kind of way. 

So naturally, the next day I went on the web to get the low down on the situ.  And indeed I found an answer, only to net more questions.  

http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20100305/NEWS/100309885/-1/RSS
Guang Ming Lang, a 26-year-old Chinese citizen who speaks limited English and is a graduate student at University of Michigan, “left the top of Berthoud Pass at 6:30 p.m. (Tuesday) with no snow travel equipment, no food, no water, no map or compass, no light source and wearing light-weight clothing and low-cut boots,”

These are my questions to the crazy Chinese dude.
First one.  Graduate Student?  Really?
Second.  6:30pm?  In the dark?
Third. Were you on meth?
Fourth.  Are you receiving psych meds for this problem, now?