I ABOUT TALKED MYSELF OUT OF WALKING THIS MORNING BECAUSE OF THE HEAT. The alarm was set so I'd get up early enough to beat the heat and when the alarm went off I didn't budge. Hubby went out to take care of the pumpkin plants to spray for bugs, but before he went outside he asked me if I was going to go walking. I laid there with one eye open and the other shut trying to talk myself out of walking.
Temps were almost 80 already. I tossed and turned and told myself to get up. I did. Okay, I will walk. You don't want to, but you've got to so I did. It was 79 degrees with a slight breeze. I drove to the track this morning instead of walking right away in the neighborhood.
Nobody was at the track. This is heavenly to me because I pray out loud when I can. I managed a mile and then I started to heat up. This is pretty good for me because usually I heat up at the half mile marker.
Someone came to the track to run so I kept walking. Should I go two miles this morning? yep. I kept walking and when the breeze blew it was wonderful. 2 miles completed. whoopee and a half. I'll record this in my calendar book as I track my mileage.
Walked to the car after I completed the eight laps around the track. I DID IT! Water waited for me in the car. Cooling off meant I would drive the neighborhoods and dream. There's a couple of houses for sale that I checked out on the computer when I got HOME.
One house looks like an old farmhouse and I dreamed where I'd put my furniture if we lived there and what I would do to the rooms to spruce them up. I spent way too much time dreaming on this one with the extra large yard that would be large enough for a flower garden AND vegetable garden. sigh. Yesterday morning I admitted that I sure miss my larger house that we lived in before coming here. I cried a bit and then had to accept that it is in the past. No more kicking myself.
My priority right now is my own COTTAGE. She's a fixer upper for sure and I still have to decide what to turn loose of to fit into this HOME. I decorate often in my head. I send myself off to sleep at nights decorating in my head. Instead of counting sheep, I'm walking through the finished house. Sweet DREAMS.
NO BREAKFAST THIS MORNING except for HOT TEA. HOT Salted Caramel Tea. Delicious. We'll have an early LUNCH so we will call it BRUNCH. I'm aiming at having a 4 o'clock tea each day. It's a goal that I'm working on as a discipline act for me to stay on target when I make a goal I will work toward making it become a reality. These past two weeks we have been successful in having a TEA BREAK @ 4pm.
Hubby has a fold up table in the KITCHEN that he is using to work on the cabinet fronts for the BATHROOM linen cabinet. He should have all 9 door fronts primed and painted by next week when he will hang them and put hardware on them. Can't wait. I have the shelves filled already. WONDERFUL to have this cabinet in the BATHROOM. Praise the LORD and thank you Sweetheart for sticking to it and creating a linen cabinet for the COTTAGE.
I've been switching out my handbag and filling a new billfold that I thrifted from GOD'S STOREHOUSE. I like the turquoise colored leather it's made of from India. ESTALON. Caught it on sale for 20% off so I paid a whomping $2.80 for this nice leather billfold. I'm returning to using a larger brown leather tote style bag. I gave it a break during SPRING and some of this SUMMER. Getting ready for AUTUMN.
There's still quite a lot of SUMMER to go, but I admit I am thinking of cooler weather where the temps will allow me to walk in pleasant weather and have HOT CHOCOLATE in the evenings. Sounds inviting.
I'm doing lousy at clearing out the front BEDROOM. Heaven help me. I'll stick my head into that room this afternoon and sigh. It's gotta be done and I am the lead on this one so I must be a good leader and make magic happen. sigh.
My youngest Grandson who's 3 and a half is attending PRESCHOOL this Summer. ARTWORK is a treat to see. What must go through his mind? He came over yesterday for a little while and played with the toys as we visited with his folks. He's talking more to where I can understand him. Tis sweet to be a Granny.
I'd better get after some chores and check the front BEDROOM. Gulp. I will celebrate when the room is a real room again. It will be our TV room so we have more space for LIVING. We spend the most time in the TV room. It doesn't mean we are watching TV the whole time, but it does mean we are living. We'll have more floor space with this other room. So be it.
May it happen quickly!
~d
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