Musings of an adventurous empty nest mom on everything under the sun.
This is a massive race weekend for us. Alex and I are both running in the 5k on Saturday and he (and all of our Leg UP teammates) is doing the triathlon. It's a little different because it is swim/bike/run/swim/bike/run - yep, 6 laps. The TOTAL distance is still the same as a classic sprint... Continue Reading →
This Labor Day weekend has turned into Garage Sale weekend for me. And it has provided some truly unexpected highlights. The somewhat expected was selling *some* items. I knew it wouldn't all sell, but I figured some small things would attract folks and you just never know what will catch someone's eye. My somewhat joking... Continue Reading →
It is so damn odd to have Sports Boy here during the month of July! I have felt so disoriented. Every summer for the past five (six? seven?) years he has hopped on a plane to Sweden pretty much within a week of school ending. Sometimes the very next morning. He would return the last... Continue Reading →
After lugging around a very NICE camera in Minneapolis and taking lots of pictures there, I was feeling decidedly unenthusiastic about photo taking this weekend so I left my semi-decent digital at home and mentally shut down my photo taking part of my brain. Which naturally means there will be photo ops galore, right? Yeah...oh... Continue Reading →
I've been following a blog about a cat lovin' woman in Alabama for about 3-4 years now. She lives on a small farm with pigs & chickens & dogs & a shit-ton of cats. OK, to be fair, she is a foster kitty mama and has perfectly set up rooms in her farm house to... Continue Reading →
As a beginning level runner, what I learned the last two weeks is: 1) Run slow enough that you keep a conversational breathing pace (or, better yet, wear a heart monitor and keep the heart rate between 140-150). Slow and steady really *does* win the race - or, at least, allow you to gradually increase... Continue Reading →
Trees & Flowers & Birds! 