Sunday, July 6, 2014

A very sunny Sunday

The weather has been a bit too warm for my taste over the past couple of weeks. It makes it hard to get out & do my runs. I was out at 8:00 am yesterday, which was nice & cool. I missed the window today, but have a 5 mile walk planned. Let's see how I do. ;-)

I've been off since Thursday, and it's been a great mix of relaxing & productive! On Thursday, we went to a water park (we have season passes) & it was great. Not very crowded & perfect weather. I put on loads of sunblock, but still managed to get a few small patches of burn. This is what happens when you're extremely pale. ;-)

I made a quadruple batch of fresh tomato sauce, using all of the fresh tomatoes from the garden - plus our basil & green peppers. It turned out extremely well. That's all now frozen in individual dinner portions, ready to go. I also made homemade bread, a chocolate cake, cranberry muffins, homemade pizza dough, and this morning, I made 9 dozen muffins - 3 dozen pear muffins (loosely based on this recipe), & 6 dozen orange muffins - to use up our stray yard oranges. The muffins will be frozen & added to lunch boxes for the kids.

We barbecued burgers on the 4th of July, so I turned the leftovers into homemade pizza yesterday, using up extra green peppers & tomatoes.

I have some additional housework to tackle today, but am looking forward to relaxing (maybe doing some reading?!) & planning the week ahead.

Here's what's still on my list:


  1. Complete 30 Day Shred workout DVD.
  2. Yoga
  3. Walk 5 miles.
  4. Clean kitchen
  5. Finish laundry
  6. Pack lunches for tomorrow
  7. Menu plan for the week
  8. Plan calendar/week/camp drop offs & pick ups
  9. Find an alteration place to hem a dress.
  10. Finish packing for my trip in a few weeks. (I like to have the majority packed well in advance, so I can just top off the suitcase with the final stuff the day before. Especially important, as I have a late meeting the night before the trip).
  11. Figure out dinner for tonight.

I think that will do it. I hope you all are having a fabulous weekend!



2 comments:

  1. I just found your blog when you commented on mine. How did you get the tracking bars on your blog? I'm looking to do that!

    Thanks!

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  2. You are doing awesome!! It's been 100+ degrees here and I'm dying!! I can't do anything useful right now...

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