… but I’ll keep watching anyway.

“So You Think You Can Dance?” started airing today. I totally love this show. Not only because of some of the most incredible human feats you get to see, but for the collection of complete freaks.

There was one guy, Jamal, who just made me laugh. A “breaker”, they asked him to quickly learn a swing dance and come back to show them. It was one of the funniest things ever. The clip below shows Jamal’s dance, and then a couple dancing to same song from last season.

The great thing is, they’re both totally crap for many different reasons. At least Jamal is entertaining…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKu3L36SVfI[/youtube]

For those that haven’t seen any real swing dancing (lindy hop), try this on for size…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZviUhPdsiI[/youtube]

Quite revolutionary for me. Beautiful weather this weekend so I spent it outdoors starting yet another project. This time however, I finished it!

Whilst the Huon Pine coffee table is still a work in progress, I whipped up a nice little outdoor bench out of some smaller pieces of Huon I just happened to have laying about. I wanted to make sure it didn’t have any nail marks so had to resort to using dowel joins.

I am not particularly good at the dowel join thing but I think the end result is still pretty good. I just wouldn’t sit on it!  :-)

Yes, I started another project today. BUT, I finished it too. Well as much as you can finish a garden bed.

After having constructed our deck, we always intended to plant a little garden bed along the end fence-line. Today, I finally got around to doing it. After a drive down to Arthur’s Seat to visit AustPlant, a native nursery near home, a arrived home a little poorer but ready to get stuck into it.

The image shows what it looked like to start with.

I purchased two Pandorea Lady Di climbers and a few Canostylis candicans (Grey Cottonheads) for ground cover.

Of course, it’s never quite that simple, there was some Osmocote stuff (plant food I think), wire, garden ties, etc.

After a bit of measuring and mathematics, I got stuck into the digging, putting in a little plant food for lunch and popping the plants into their new homes. All in all, a pretty easy job and quite rewarding.

I spent the rest of the afternoon stringing up wire so we can guide the climbers and doing some other work on the other side of the garden (with the yet to be completed paving). Will be interesting to see how quickly these things grow. Will post some more photographs in a few months once it’s all established.

How else do you get a dog to do this? …

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziDeUbifKIM[/youtube]

Check out more of Tyson’s adventures.

Went for my first run in a few months last night. Didn’t get terribly far (2km) but am glad I did it. Will be going for another tomorrow night and then again on the weekend.

To keep me motivated as summer comes along, I’ve enrolled on another Boot Camp month and also booked my place in the October Melbourne Marathon. I’ll aim to do 10km at the marathon run. Only half the distance of my start of year goal of the half marathon, but it’s still more than I’ve ever run in my life.

Oh well, off to start psyching myself up.

Ran into this fantastic advert the other day on TV. Funky music, great colour, fun vibe, and most of all brilliant choreography.

Oh, the gals aren’t too bad either.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZhSc1qtves[/youtube]

You can learn more about the advert from the Bond’s site. If you’re quick, you can even download a copy of the music.