Wendy Mastripolito

OK.. I am a TREE HUGGER and proud of it... .. so when a few of our trees were.. well.. looking.. a bit CLOSE TO DEATH , we hired an Arborist to help determine WHY....and well the news.. IS NOT GOOD... 3 of the 25 year old rather large Maple Trees are suffering from Girdling Root. . which I come to find out is especially common in maples where trees have been transplanted from one site to another, like from nurseries to landscapes. SO WHAT IS THAT? Basically the roots of the trees are strangling the trees… OK.. so how does that happen?: Sometimes, when the trees are planted the transplant holes are too small and the planter chooses to “screw” the tree into the hole rather than take the time to enlarge it. In other cases, the tree is grown in a container that is too small to accommodate the increasing size of the root system. The roots are forced to grow in a circular fashion rather than their normal pattern of radiating out from the stem. Death without removing the strangling roots ...

SOOO if I can remain focused.. This is my fall schedule : 9/4/11: Labor Of Pain 12 hour Run (I get to run with Joe all day.. precious) http://www.pretzelcitytiming.com/laborpain.html 10/2/11: Wineglass Marathon (get to drive 5hours to NY to run for wine..) http://www.wineglassmarathon.com/ 10/23/11: Tussey 50 Miler (50 miles of hills and running “with” joe ..no comment) http://www.tusseymountainback.com/ First off though...I have to get the LONE RANGER out of the way...... 7/16/11: Lone Ranger Ultra 24 Hour Run …(SAY WHAT!) So once that is done I should be able to FOCUS …a bit….so yeah the Lone Ranger Ultra… 24 hours of running… it REALLY DID seem like SUCH a good idea at the time (when I signed up 7 months ago). . but HELLO… running for 24 hours??!.. This is when you say OMG what the hell was I thinking! Like waking up after a night of drinking and OMG who the hell are you?!.. BUT I am STOKED! Seriously excited to see what I can and cannot do for 24 hours… I have my pla...

I had an altercation today.. At work… You really have to wonder if people will ever truly get it. I am seeing it more and more every day.. people are just HURRY crazy. People are in a hurry to GET to work…in a hurry to get OUT of work.. in a hurry to get JR to soccer, baseball, guitar and swim lessons…to get to the grocery store…to a movie…even to get to church.. But what people are forgetting in their HURRY is that many of them are driving thousand pound killing machines. I know its frustrating when someone slows up your world, heck I hate being inconvenienced, but at least I know that even though I am supreme ruler of the universe, I am not the only one in the universe... I don’t know how many times I have been almost killed while running…people in their big ole metal machines not paying attention… driving too fast…talking on their DAMN cell phones.. well today just solidifies it. While taking my “peaceful” walk from my truck in the far parking lot at work to the entrance of our buil...