Good morning, 

Today I am putting together my Square Foot Gardens where I plan to grow our vegetables this summer.  I decided to go with square foot gardens instead of a traditional garden because our dirt here, is just that, dirt, not soil.   We've learned that before building the houses on our street, they scrapped off all the top soil and sold it, leaving us with a land of dirt. Which is unfortunate because we live out in the country and would have had some very nice soil to work with.   I may still put in a traditional garden in the future (for corn and other crops that need more space) and try and work the dirt back to a good soil.  But since this is my first attempt at a vegetable garden I am going to stick with just the SFG's this year.  

This article has be republished from the original ImprovedLife.ca site

This is a very common subject where you'll get a different answer from every person you ask. What I am going to do here is try to outline my thoughts on how someone should go about starting to exercise. The first thing you need to do is to give yourself an honest opinion of what your current fitness level is. If you start off thinking that you are more able then you really are, you have a lot higher chance of getting injured, and then stopping your routine completely. We want to avoid this, so whatever fitness level you say you are, make sure it is accurate and honest. When I speak of "fitness level" I'm not going by any guidelines, I just want you to be aware of what you can do, so you don't start off trying to run 20 kms or bench press 90kgs (~200lbs).

I have been away from this site for a while now, but I want to come back to it and take it in a bit of a new direction.   In order to do this, I have pulled all of the articles off and decided to start again.  Over the months to come, I will be reposting my old articles to fill in any gaps in my submissions, but the overall theme of this site is going to change.  I want it to be a little more wide spread in what I share with you.  I want to talk about more then just personal growth issues. 

I figure this is the better of my sites to take a more personal approach, and talk about whatever crazy (or sane) idea(s) that I am thinking about at that time.   I also am going to be putting up articles about various subjects as I see fit to write them.