a busy day

Yoga 🧘‍♀️ 

Walked three miles on Greenway trail

Shopped at Dicks Sporting Goods for new shoes 👟 

Home 🏡 for lunch and folded laundry 🧺 

Walked two more miles at the park 

Recycled glass bottles 

Stopped at library to return and pick up new books 📚 

Grocery shopping 🛒 cause it’s Friday

Practiced French

My total mileage for May: 101.4 miles 

good news/bad news

 After yoga 🧘‍♀️ I walked 5.06 miles on the Greenway trail. The temperature 🤒 was 71 degrees and breezy. I love the feeling when the wind 💨 is at my back pushing me along; I pretend I’m a bird 🦅 I really do. 

The good news is that the black spot treatments have been helping my rose 🥀 bushes. The bad news is that mama deer 🦌 had rosebuds for a midnight snack.

yoga and roses

It felt good to get back to yoga today. Mostly women, a few men, we are a little tribe lifting spirits while sweating together. I always try to do a few chores each day after exercising and this afternoon I sprayed my rose bushes for black spot. Because of the very wet spring, all eight bushes have it, even the new Henry Fonda. This is the third treatment (spraying) and it’s therapeutic for me too. And I also vacuumed because I was feeling extra energetic 👍

the river

This morning I walked/ran 5.05 miles in the park again. The last couple of miles I ran in the rain. The weather was 79 degrees and really windy. It was actually refreshing but I got scared about a tree 🌳 falling on me. My favorite indoor track is closed because the tornado 🌪 blew down a wall so I’m going to have to be creative for awhile. When I got home 🏡 I had my favorite lunch: half a banana 🍌 with peanut butter and a vanilla Yoplait yogurt. Tomorrow I’m going back to yoga 🧘‍♀️ Yay 😁 

My weekly mileage totaled 41.38 miles.

the flood

I walked a total of 5.25 miles today, indoor and also at Riverside. Thank you city street department for cleaning and picking up limbs and debris. Also, we are pretty sure our little garden across the river is under water so goodbye tomatoes 🍅 green beans, corn 🌽 peppers 🌶 radishes, sunflowers 🌻 and zinnias. Maybe next year. Please God, with the flood and the tornado happening almost simultaneously our little city could use some sweet relief.

devastation

This morning I walked 4.13 miles at Riverside Park. There was debris from the tornado 🌪 everywhere. There was a huge tree limb which I had to walk around. We were very close to the actual path of the tornado and we consider ourselves very fortunate. When the siren 🚨 went off we didn’t even go downstairs as we thought it was further away. I didn’t have the ❤️ to drive to yoga 🧘‍♀️ this morning so I skipped it. Some of the streets I normally take are closed anyway. Our house 🏡 is fine and although we have big trees behind us they are still standing. No tv service but that should be fixed tomorrow morning. 
Earlier this morning we took some roses out to my brother’s grave and tried to drive by the house 🏡 I grew up in but that street was closed to traffic. 

roses, another view

Today I walked 4.10 miles on the Greenway trail. The newer part was really muddy because of all the rain last night. Our rain gauge measured 3.9 inches this morning and my flowers are pretty beat up 🤕 but they’ll come around with some hot 🥵 weather. I also made it to yoga 🧘‍♀️ this morning, my first class of the week.

mileage

More thunderstorm warnings so I cut more rosebuds. Braille was fun. We laughed a lot and made six 📖 books assembly line style. We used to produce eight books in the same amount of time and can’t figure out why our number is down 🤔. I walked five miles total today and also started to purge my closet. That’s something I kind of enjoy doing on a rainy/gloomy day.

appointments and such

Appointments and parties 🎉 prevented me from walking 🚶‍♀️ this weekend. Mileage from last week totaled 40.50 miles. Today I saw my dentist 🦷 and also my cardiologist 💕 and walked four miles. Tomorrow I am making Braille 📚 books so no yoga till Wednesday. I did practice my balance in the doctors waiting room.
It has started to storm ☔️ this afternoon so I cut some roses to enjoy on my kitchen windowsill.

mileage

Today I walked 5.03 miles. Yesterday I walked 4.52 miles. I made it to yoga 🧘‍♀️ classes both days. Warm weather has finally arrived, everything is green and beautiful. My knee still feels good but I’m slightly concerned 😦 about the clicking sound it has started to make while walking 🚶I think I’ll do some research online and see what kind of diagnosis I come up with. 
On another subject, my flowers 💐 are looking great 👍.

miles, knees & roses

Today I ran a little over four miles on the indoor track. It was still very cool and cloudy ⛅️ outside and I wasn’t feeling it. My average pace for my indoor run was 13.40 per mile which isn’t too bad. My knee feels great 👍 and I’m glad I took off some time last week to just heal. There is a reason why doctors earn big $$. 

I fed my roses 🌹 this afternoon and noticed my Henry Fonda is getting ready to bloom. 

mileage

My mileage totaled 5.05 miles today. Mostly outside. The sky is cloudy ⛅️ but in a good way. I made it to yoga 🧘‍♀️ this morning. I love 💕 yoga and the way it feels when I finish up. I definitely have a yoga butt. 
I discovered our first turtle 🐢 this morning around six when I opened the door to get the paper. He was pretty much a grandpa, I could tell. I resisted the urge to pick him up or even run in for my phone 📱 to get a pic. He’s got a right to be undisturbed. I hope 🤞 I meet up with him again. Hopefully he’ll make a nest in my rose 🌹 garden. I’d like that.

back at it

My knee feels good. Yoga 🧘‍♀️ class went well. The weather was cloudy and rainy this morning so my 5.56 miles were a mixture of treadmill and downtown track. This worked for me as I had library books 📚 to return. My knee is still making clicking noises occasionally when I’m walking 🚶‍♀️ but it’s not causing me any pain and doctor 👨‍⚕️ says very little arthritis so that’s a good thing. 😋

azalea bush

I took this pic before the big storm and four inches of rain 🌧 last night. I am taking a break from all exercising and yoga 🧘‍♀️ for the rest of the week. Seems I have a cyst which will go away on its own with medication and a shot in my kneecap 😝. 
Since I use this blog to track my mileage I don’t know 🤔 if I’ll record anything till next week. I’ve got a paint 🎨 by number and numerous books 📚 to finish up. And I love to waste my time watching movies.