Happy Homemaker Monday [Tuesday Edition]

 Hoping to join in with Sandra over at Diary Of A Stay At Home Mom for the Happy Homemaker Link Up, even though I'm joining on a Tuesday [oops]. On Monday I did a 'recovery' walk/run to loosen up these crazy bones that decided a 10K was a smart idea!

just over 2 miles at a smooth slower pace,

Then it was time to get some mowing/trimming done....

it got Hot🌞Fast...

the nephew came over and asked if there was any chores he could do to earn money for a new game thingy he wanted so we made a deal that if he trimmed down the lilies for me I would give him 20$...he was soo excited! and though he's not done yet...

he's doing a good job!

I was able to get in the garden and pick salad for dinner...

 

Now onto Happy Homemaker Monday...

Weather this Week...

     

What's for Breakfast...

     The Hubby made Oatmeal on Monday,

     Biscuits & Gravy

     rest of the week will be cereal or Grab & Go since the Hub's has surgery Wednesday with expected hospital stay of 2-3 days. 

 

What I'm reading...

      

taking these with me for waiting room reading.

TV Shows this week...

     Chicago Fire is on ION channel--these are earlier shows so not re-runs for us

Menu Plan...

     Keeping it simple, cooking ahead Chicken Breast, Pork Loin and a piece of Steak, Hubby's choice of what ever he wants to eat, Wed-Fri I'll most likely just throw a small TV dinner item in microwave since I won't be home until late these days.

Goal/ToDo List...

     1. Mow - Done Monday

     2. Laundry - working

     3. Walk/Run - gonna try for 8 miles, I'll be happy with 🤷whatever...

     4. Meal Plan - keeping it simple

     5. Radio Segment - No race this coming weekend so delayed until 7/12 

Project this Week...

     Nothing for this week

Photo Share...

from my yard...

That's it for today...Hope everyone has a Great week!

🤗 Hug's 

Weekend Wrap-Up

 Saturday July 3RD:

Soooo not sure when I signed up for the Bluegrass 10000, and not sure What Was I Thinking signing up for a 10K, but I did. I started getting email updates about the race, it was still a Virtual event which is fine by me. Then it happened....it went LIVE...as in a In-Person race event. Okay I thought I'll still just continue to participate virtually and be good, well with everything going on with the Hubby and not really being focused on 'my' things I missed the confirmation email {sigh}...Crap! I got the email for race packets to get picked up and just figured I'll go get mine and the Kid hers while I'm there and just go and take her race pictures, cause you know that's what I do.

She. Didn't. Sign. Up!! WTH ! And now what...?

The day came for me to go get 'My' race packet. I still had time to decide what I was going to do, run it on my own time, when I could ...or... show up at the race.

The night before I kept thinking😒if I don't feel like it in the morning, I'm not going...

Yeah, I went. Below is proof,

I arrived early, used the porta potty [not in the fountain weirdo]

meandered around

mingled with a few runners,

So many runners, So Many runners that I normally am at the finish line taking their finish line photo. They were thrilled to see me actually doing a race, 

the 'Big Hand' was there aka Jenny

and turn around point entertainment...

mile 4ish...still out there - I mean where was I going to go at this point ?!?

Still trying not to look at my watch to see how Long I had been walk/walk/more walk/running, still I had my focus on 3 other runners that I figured If I could keep up with them I'll be ok...

I Was OKAY!

I Did This!

I'm Officially a 10K'r !

When's the next one you ask??? RTB 10K in October, with a goal of trying for this time or better. Can I do it? Maybe...but I'm going and doing what I can.

*****     *****

July 4th

 Sunday - Early:ThirtyAM morning getting ready for the Inaugural Independence Day 5K. It's odd to have a race on a Sunday but when there's opportunities you take them. 

the sun was making a beautiful appearance, 

the Start/Finish line ready,

Post Covid when you promote/advertise a race Runners Will Come!

Here's 👇👇 Proof

Linda Word of Fore Word pacers was lead bicycle for the runners...THEN ran the race!

And of course let's not forget the Kid & Crew [-Sherry who was on vaca]

Luckily after all the finishers and awards were done I was able to make it back home for Church services with the Mr...the rest of the day was spent getting things in order for the Mr.'s surgery...then loading/sharing/posting race pictures. 

That's it for now and my very first Weekend Wrap-Up!

Hug's !!

 

Beast Mode, Friday Flower, Planning Ahead

 

Todays weather =

Hoping the grass dries out more so I can get the lawn mowed before heading to the Big City [Louisville] for the Mr.'s surgery on Wednesday, May try and get it done tomorrow afternoon.

I have my very first 'official' 10K 🏃 in the morning so we'll see how I feel...I'm sooo under trained for this race, I just haven't had motivation or taken the time to train, and every now and then my Hamstring gives me a twinge signal reminding me that it was pulled/sprained just a couple weeks ago. Regardless I. Am.Competing. and will do the best I can. I've already signed up to do another in the fall 😬.

Feeling my 'oats' today I decided to Beast Mode for 2 miles...it wasn't until I made my Instagram post that I realized that even with the few times I did manage motivation to work out I still have my toned [somewhat] shoulders and neck, Chapter 66 ain't gonna stop me!💪

Another handful of these sweet Cherry Tomatoes will be perfect snack options...

Lots and Lots of Beautiful cherry tomato blooms.....

Happy there's still a few of this Daylily showing off her blooms....

My view looking down in the Triangle flower bed off the back steps, I'm going to try and separate these this fall and replant along the fence.

This rest of the afternoon is going to be low key, the Mr and I are going to see the new 

Vin Diesel F9 movie

I mean Come On...who doesn't Love Vin....

After the movie we're stopping at Kroger to use store coupons I received in the mail, I've started my Fall/Winter re-stock list and will start buying those items in a few weeks, does anyone else plan 6 months ahead? I'm only planning on restocking pantry/sundry/medical items, we still have stuff in the freezer that I'm doing meal plans around to get those used up. I'll be getting some laundry done and organize things around the house for the upcoming week, as I mentioned the Mr.'s surgery is coming up and he'll be in the hospital a few days, the drive is 1 1/2 hours one way so everything I can get done ahead of time, maybe I won't be as frazzled...Maybe...

Until Next time,

     Hug's, Kisses, Be Safe Wishes!!

 

Look my Age?!? HaHaHa!!!

 Went for a 'cut & color' update this morning...

I don't act like I'm in Chapter #66, 

so why look like it...#amiright 😏! Color to match my eyebrows and

went with a much shorter cut since the weather has decided to go from

Hot 🔥to

Hotter than Hades 🔥🔥...

Today's weather started last night, rain-some thunder-more rain-down pour rain repeat!

[no I wasn't going out to get pics of the down pour are you Crazy!] The rain is more than welcomed by me for the raised b gardens benefit, 

I've already picked a few Cherry Tomatoes,

as well as a few Sweet Banana Peppers, though I planted these primarily for the 'Kid', I'll put a few in the freezer for later use in soups and such.

I was really glad to see the Snail Mail today...

Meet Rose Garden from Bolder Athletic, 

I...Love...Roses!

As this was a custom skirt I did pay a price a bit higher than I normally would...but then It's Rose Garden, I can't wait to wear her. I have many other skirts and claim to be a #teamSparkle & #SparkleSister [the brand they were called] thanks to the Kid for getting me started, and she has many more customs though than I do...😁 Go Kid!

Not much else going on today, getting July's budget set up, doing some laundry, basic housework, leftovers from church potluck is on the menu, and hope the rain holds out for couple of hours to Walk/Run.

Until we Blog again! 

A Runners Mom and More

      Hug's, Kisses, Be Safe Wishes! 

And Just Like That it's ****JULY**** !!

Wait?.... What?.....? July?.....?

Where did January, February, March, April, May and June go?? More Importantly what in the World have I been doing, obviously not Blogging. Let's see if we I can change all that, in the meantime let's do a small 2021 re-cap....

January was still under Covid restrictions with only a few race events going on, the Mr. had a surgery on Jan 19th, and I was offered [shockingly] a job with Chick-fil-A food truck, my Step-dad, aka PaPaw got sick and unfortunately passed late in the month, Walk/Run 48.6 miles

February brought multiple follow up trips to the Big City for the Mr. getting stitches removed and such, we were hit with a Ice Storm-luckily we were prepared having lot's of freezer/pantry food, and a  generator if it was needed, the storm also forced the rescheduling of a few race events [Covid restrictions were in place for races], I was forced to begin a plan on what to do with all the stuff from Papaws house-then learning that the kid does in fact have a lot of her Granny in her-she & the SIL decided to take the house as her inheritance and that's ok, started volunteering at the local Covid Clinic, I also worked every Friday on the food truck for CFA. Walk/Run 27.3 miles

March brought a few more lenient covid restrictions for race events so I was able to be more involved with my #teamRaceRise group, a planned couples dinner outing happened finally this month with more planned in the future, I did the Card Ministry for my church sending them those that are sick, had surgery or lost a Loved one, CFA Friday work slowed down to every other week and I was off for 'my' second time doing the RTB Yearling 3.65 miles [3rd in my age group Go Me!], and started back to in-person church services. Walk/Run 29.9 miles

 April I turned to Chapter #66 in life...worked CFA alternate Fridays, Connections Ministry starting having church meetings at Church [finally], only had a few race events but things are slowly getting back to normal, yearly check up was good-but my motivation was no where to be found and not sure where it went, Walk/Run 15.4 miles

May brought another surgery for the Mr so again off to the Big City multiple times for follow ups and such, volunteering at Covid Clinic continues for the month, started Hiking again [hallelujah] thanks to my friend Margaret I'm part of the Casey County Explorers and we go everywhere to hike, a few more races and restrictions are getting more and more relaxed, GOP meetings are also beginning to be in-person and that's a big plus, work at CFA is spotty at best [and that's ok], I completed all the spring landscape cleaning and re-mulching in all the flower beds, booked race events every weekend, after having a 'come to Jesus' talk with myself Walk/Run = 55.6 miles 

June I signed up to be RunMom/motivator/cheer leader for the new A Running Start group you can read about the program/group Here, not sure what I was thinking but attempted to try some speed work while out for a walk/run and ended up with a pulled/sprained hamstring, played PitStopMom for the Kid and her running friend in Indianapolis for their 50K race with said pulled/sprained hamstring, surgery for the Mr [again in the Big City], No More Restrictions!, a much needed couples dinner out to reconnect with friends, Bible Study resumed at our 'other' church, races are open to as many that want to compete, booked every weekend, only worked 1 Friday for 4 hours-they shut down due to thunder and lightning storm, resigned from CFA for a few reasons, city Commissioners in-person meetings have resumed, the Mr worked on the #porchproject, and though I've done 'some walk/run activities I've not taken the time [just like the BLOG😒] to update my Strava account...but I will!

And now here it is JULY....I have 6 race events to do/be at, Connections Ministry meeting, Hiking, GOP meeting, Wednesday Bible Study at First Baptist with Dr Brisco, possible Covid Clinic volunteering, and a HUGE financial decision in the works, Walk/Run will continue with a plan for some longer 🏃 distances...hopefully🤞