Saturday, July 12

Today I am grateful for:

A lovely day with my Sweetie.

He did some kind of work before I got up, not sure exactly what he was working on...but something.

I made a conscious decision to dress nicely to go to the city today, and I'm glad I did. I enjoy dressing up, I've got lots of nice things, and I need to overcome the feeling of possibly being over dressed. I was fine, no one really cares anyhow, wear what pleases you.

Our goal was to do the Artwalk in the city, which is exactly as it sounds. There's a part of the downtown that is all blocked off for artist's booths, and there was SO MUCH to see.

I am always blown away at how many very good, very interesting artists there are out there, all of them striving to sell their work.

We walked around for likely close to two hours, and I was pretty burnt out at that point. It's a lot to take in.

We did buy some very reasonable prints, a couple of art cards, and a little pottery puffer fish.

We were going to eat at one of our restaurants, only to discover that it was closed, though they may have moved. It's sad if they are out of business, because we often saw the owner there, and this place was his personal dream.

We ate at another one of our regular places a few blocks over, and it was good as usual.

Then we got ice cream for my Sweetie, and we went walking around the valley again, not far from where we were last time.

I love walking around in the trails in this city. It feels so different, it's all little trails through the trees with a creek, bridges, and parts of it give you views of houses and yards, and even the streets near this path are so interesting. They are old houses, with lovely yards, and wouldn't it be so amazing to live that close to such nice walking areas?

It's a far cry from all the soulless new divisions with identical Mcmansions with no yards hardly, and no sidewalks either. You can't even plant proper trees in those areas, and the city won't plant any to line the streets now. Soulless.

So it was quite a day for walking. LOTS of walking.

Then we came home, let everyone out into their pastures and put the water on the garden, and then we just sat outside on our swing for an hour or so.

The weather was perfect for it.

Summer just flies by. I love summer, but you feel almost this panic, like HOW MUCH SUMMER CAN I JAM INTO EVERY SINGLE DAY, because winter is just so...winter.

We re-watched the second most recent Mission Impossible, so that we can soon watch the most recent one and have some idea of what the heck is happening.

Sunday, July 13

Today I am grateful for:

Getting good sleep.

A slow start to the day with my Sweetie.

Yesterday my Sweetie got a little bobcat from our friend, and today he's using it to move a big pile of dirt that's just been sitting in the way in the horse pasture for about ten years.

The dirt WAS nice clean topsoil, brought in to help plant a row of spruce trees along the lane (they are a good size now), but we really didn't need such a large amount.

So, I have used some here and there, but it soon got full of grass roots and impossible to use for anything now, so we're spreading it out into some low spots in the yard.

He only got about half of it moved today, but it's a start.

I pulled some weeds for about an hour, then it rained.

My husband stopped moving the dirt when it rained, but really, he didn't need to. It was over in ten minutes, BUT he stopped, came inside and cleaned up, and thus talked himself out of actually finishing the job.

So, he came with me to see River instead. It hadn't even rained at R's place.

River was still a bit sore, so another day of gentle work, focusing on our yields. I also worked with him to get a better, more forward walk. Good work to do on a day where we can't do more than walking.

Then we came home, and watched the first hour of the newest "Mission Impossible", and so far it feels rushed and messy, but with huge amounts of exposition that covers what happened in the last movie, and in the distant past, and so on. Kind of a mess. I hope it gets it's shit together. I feel like this might be the last "Mission Impossible" with Tom Cruise in it, and it would be nice for him if it ended on a strong note.

Then I went back outside and worked with Dandy and Wonder. Lots of running for me today, but I did get decent attention from Dandy after some effort.