Let the "fun" begin!

Diet and exercise, that is. I actually started last week, but am "easing" into it. I just walked a couple of miles and I am HOT! I've been gardening like crazy. I had removed sod for a new flower bed earlier this spring, and DH helped prepare it for planting. I am removing all flowers from around the Blue Spruce since it is getting so big, and moving them or removing them. But I not only am doing the new bed, but I am doing the entire garden: thinning plants, moving plants, adding plants; all kinds of work! It is looking a little sparse right now in some places, but it will be GORGEOUS next summer! It really needed to be better balanced with color and blooms all season, so that has been my goal. I find that when I garden, I don't get hungry, and I don't realize how much time I am spending out there. Yesterday I watered most of the flowers, and I watered myself a few times, too! =-) I still have more to do. I think that in the empty part by the Blue Spruce (away from it a bit) we will plant some clumping grasses and put the bird feeders there. That way sun flowers won't grow in the yard! I am also going to extend a flower bed along the side of the patio. I was waiting because we were contemplating putting a three seasons room there, but now we bought a new trailer instead!

Yup! a new trailer. DH and I were up at the camper a couple of weeks ago for a week. One day we went to a dealership to buy some clips for extending the arms of our awning straight down to the deck instead of at an angle to the trailer (which makes us duck under them). While we were there we were looking around and DH said, "Let's just look at a few of these..." Every one we went in we were saying that we wouldn't trade our present one for that, until DH looked at an Outback. He yelled for me to come look. He said, "You have GOT to see this!" It has a floor plan very similar to what we have now, except the bathroom is bigger (yippeeee) and there is another room in the back. It has a sofa "hide-a-bed", with a bunk above that pushes up to the wall (like a Murphy Bed) when not in use. Those are in a second slide out, which really opens up the room. Then, there is a place for my sewing machine in there! It faces a window looking out the back. It really opens up the living space without all of the craft things in there. They are in the back room now. =-) DH calls it the craft room. It is also for our DGD when she comes up. We even gave her two drawers for her clothes we keep up there. It is perfect for DH and me... we got it because it suits our needs so well. We got a really good deal on it and even though we took out a loan we looked at our finances and decided we could pay off the loan with the first payment. Better than paying all of the interest! I was saving for a new car, but I don't need one yet, and even if I do end up having to get one, I can do a three year loan with low to no interest right now. Our "car" savings has paid for the original trailer, our basement completing, and our upgrade to the new trailer. Who knows what will happen next! We want to get a new car before we retire, but I have 3-4 more years as long as my present car holds out. I like that car anyway... no, I LOVE that car! Even if I have to put premium gas in, a new car would cost a lot more than what I am paying extra for gas! Next car will get 40 mpg though!

I have been starting to work on my old physical therapy exercises for my back, to strengthen them. That's part of my "get healthy" plan, too. I really want to get rid of my excess pounds and be active and healthier again. It only takes a little while each day. I MAKE myself do this stuff... I really don't feel like doing it.

I've been reading, too. Three books in the last week.

What I haven't been doing is quilting. I put a quilt on my frame and am having tension problem's with it. I need to take that quilt off, and put muslin on and just work with it until I get it. Then I can get those tops quilted. I ordered some new thread for machine quilting to see if that helps. It should arrive today according to the tracker. Then I am getting at that next. I am almost finished with what I can do in the garden right now. I have a couple of days worth, but I will do it only in the morning and take my afternoons for quilting. Wish me luck! Look for pictures soon.

Well, I am going to go wash my dining and kitchen floors now, and clean my bathroom. Sounds exciting, huh? Once the house is clean I will feel happier. I will feel more like doing other things. I never got my fourth of July stuff out. I think I'll go to my "bees" theme this time. I haven't done that for a couple of years. I'll get the stuff down from the attic tonight after DH is home so he can spot me on the ladder and ledge! I can hand things down to him. Much easier than doing it alone. So I will have to get off of the computer and BUZZ around here getting things done. I must be feeling good. I even washed my foyer hardwood floor yesterday. Of course, that was after I had the door opened while I watered the front flowers and didn't realize that the water was coming in through the upper screen part of the storm door... oops! Off to work!