At some point, maybe mid week, I need to do a review of my summer because several things happened since I last blogged in March. But for now here’s my review of the week. Nothing major just several little activities.
My family has always gone to a very small church. Like to have 10 people in attendance is a crowd and rare for us. I guess sometime way back before I was around people that knew each other but moved away still stayed in touch and also had small churches so my family would visit these other churches every few months and vise versa. One being near Shreveport, Louisiana and the other near Dallas, Texas. Due to the pastors death and his wifes poor health the Louisiana church as disbanded but the Texas church is still going strong and my grandparents still hold this tradition of making the pilgrimage to a service once a month. That is a long trip for anyone (I remember long car rides with naps and lots of reading time growing up) but especially for the older folks. So my grandparents usually make the trip a 2 day affair staying with someone along the way. Where I am currently living is about halfway for them so they tend to stay with us Saturday night. When we first moved here, because me nor Joel are vary handy, we would always have a to do list for my grandpa. Things like that have settled so lately we just watch tv or maybe play cards or something. Well my grandparents are the type that it has to get way into the heat of the summer before they will turn on the AC and even then they keep it still pretty warm to the average person. I wonder if I keep my house (set at 75 degrees) too cold for them? This is generally how they sit when at my house wrapped up in blankets or in sweaters.
My dogs love fighting over I mean chewing on bones. A while back my grannie suggested I try them with carrots and see how that went over. I once had the sliced carrot chips I was trying for a healthy snack and attempted to share with the dogs but they didn’t seem to know what to do with the carrots all they did was leave a shredded carrot mess in the floor. But I had some long carrots so I thought we’d try the great carrot experiment again. They again shredded them into the carpet at first but finally got the hang of how to eat them and seem to love them.
This week was my uncles ex wife’s birthday. She is the mother of the cousin I’m really close to and spend a lot of time with so despite that she is no longer legally my aunt we see each other a lot and I still call her Aunt. Also we happen to live in the same town now. My cousin doesn’t live in this town but she wanted to order some flowers for her mom’s birthday. Delivery costs are expensive so she asked if I’d be the delivery person. I thought it was a pretty arrangement so just thought I’d share.
Here is a project I’ve worked on this past week.
Moving and rearranging furniture in our guest bedroom uh my husbands game room. I need to exercise more I know. I just don’t like the temperatures to go out and walk the trail at the park that’s RIGHT across the street from us. I also don’t like exercising in front of other people hence I don’t use the gym that’s RIGHT around the corner from us. I love me some TV. I’ve always said if I had a treadmill I’d set it up near the TV and walk and watch my shows. I finally was given a treadmill recently so I’m trying it out. Like I haven’t even told my grannie about it yet because I don’t want her constantly asking me if I’ve used it if it’s not going to work out for me. But I’m proud to say I’ve used it Monday-Thursday of this week. As you can see the machine is set at an incline which makes it a harder workout. Plus this girl is in terrible shape. My daily goal is a very small amount and I actually walk a little then have to take a rest break to make sure I’m not going to die catch my breath then I go again til I’ve reach my goal. If you noticed (I know my mom will) I said I only walked Monday - Thursday. Friday I went grocery shopping for like an hour and a half so I’m sure I walked my daily goal. Saturday Joel and I went and walked the entire mall so again probably made my daily goal so I didn’t want to push myself so I substituted those activities for treadmill walking. Originally thought I’d take Sunday off to rest but I kinda feel the need to use it since I havn’t done the machine in 2 days I don’t want to break my routine.
Well that about concludes my activities for the week other than the normal house cleaning chores. So I will sign off and leave you with pictures of a few of my dogs silly sleeping habits.
Chip laying on the back of the couch but needing to be close to me so he curls his head into the side of my neck. Not the most comfortable for me but hey he’s cute and sweet just wanting to lay close to his momma so I let it ride til I’m really hurting.
Bella being covered by a blanket was actually an accident but she didn’t’ seem to mind. Looks pretty spoiled and pampered.
