Lets Post our Daily Exercise
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I am so sorry edj. I remember when someone all of us worked with died. Actually, a couple of guys. Takes a bit of time to recover from the shock. I am glad that you recognize this.
Attached are 22 pictures from my trip. Great fun and so glad that I am able to do these things. Today's exercise will be a short bicycle ride and a swim. Then two rides of about 25 miles each over the next 4 days and I will have done the challenge. I can feel the difference in my legs and upper body. - Claire
Waiting for the ferry isn't so bad when you have this park and view.
Mount Baker in the distance.
Home sweet home.
Cycling along the spit, one of the most glorious places ever, plus the sea breeze was welcome.
Flourless chocolate-almond cake. Tasts even better than it looked. Had two pieces, two successive evenings.
Shark reef which I cycled to and then hiked the half mile in wearing cycling shoes.
Looking west towards Vancouver Island, mountains in the distance.
Back to the spit. Love the views.
Lawn at the camping place. They also have glamping and cottages, but campsites were what was available.
The "live entertainment".
I took my car into town Saturday evening as couldn't face one more minute on my bicycle seat, plus had a chance to shower before dinner. Had the IPA outside under an apple tree.
Heron on pond.
Community garden in Lopez Village.
Agate beach. Note the clouds on Saturday which kept things delightfully cool.
Headed out to Orcas Island on Sunday for oysters.
Sweet labyrinth at the Episcopal Church in East Sound.
What I came for. The most amazing ones ever and worth the ferry ride and 12 mile cycling. These come right out of the sea about a mile from where consumed.
How I felt on the way back as the ferry was late, and I needed to cycle back to the camp site on the other end. I was fine.
Golden setting sun.
Ferry flowers. I got there 2 hours early just to be sure I got on.
I wasn't the only one cycling and camping. These people were headed to the other islands. But I brought my car as actually cheaper to bring it on the ferry than to pay for parking plus a person with bicycle fare.
Bounty of vegetables purchased on the trip home. The most wonderful stand which also is an excellent fish monger. I am cooking the branzino for dinner tonight. And the spaghetti vongole I made with the clams was just divine. As fresh and sweet as the oysters.
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Great biking, Claire! You would like to come me for my afternoon's adventure. We & another couple are touring a nearby winery. 🍷
Here's the weekly WWW picture. We're wearing red, white & blue to celebrate the Summer Olympics (Go Team USA!). The small private college & public school system here pooled their funds to build the new (and much needed) soon-to-be completed stadium in the background.
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Claire - love those pics of your trip to the San Juan Islands. That's one place I would like to go to - and bike ride! A bunch of years ago, we went to Mackinac Island, Michigan and rode bikes (no cars there). So fun! I'd love to go back there, too.
Edj - hope your wrist mends quickly and you have full use soon.
Wonderland - hope you are getting some cooler weather these couple days. Hiring someone to cut the grass is a wonderful thing! I agree with Ruth.
Saltmarsh - I hope your step-mom will be okay. We went to Acadia National Park many, many years ago. We didn't ride bikes because our daughter was little, but it would have been too hilly for me. I prefer to hike so I am glad you could do that.
I have been walking, walking, walking with some weights added! I really need to mix it up, though. So Claire inspired me to go home after work and ride my bicycle. We are enjoying some cooler temps for a short time.
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edj - so sorry about the sudden death of you co-worker. What a tragedy. Sending you hugs.
Wonder - our new superintendent is requiring masks for all who work in school buildings.
Salt - hope your step-mother is okay.
Going to try to post pictures - but sometimes bco is not cooperative on the computer. All the photos were taken with my iPhone.
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The top photo taken. in the yard of the apt we stayed in Jerusalem - just before Shabbat. Middle photo taken in Haifa over looking the port and med. Bottom one is yours truly in a water fall at a spring in the desert. I'm going to post pictures on fb - but need to double check with DD and DH is they are okay with their pictures being on fb.0 -
Great pictures, Claire and Karen!
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saltmarsh: You knew something wasn't right. Our guts really do talk to us. Glad you followed through. Hoping your stepmom will find answers.
edj: Oh my goodness. So sorry about your co-worker. Just devastating. (((HUG)))
Claire: Your adventures are amazing. Thanks for sharing with us. The oysters look delicious.
GoKale: Good for you for getting on your bike!
Ruth: Good picture. The stadium looks fabulous.
Karen: That first picture should be labelled Joy and Love. That's a great picture. I want to go swimming in a waterfall in the desert!
Had a short walk before a 2 hour zoom meeting.
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edj3, I’m so sorry to hear about your coworker. sending you and your team my best wishes!
claire and karen, thank you for aharing your pictures! i love vicarious vacations!
ruth, i absolutely love the cooperation involved in getting that stadium built. well-done, nameless college and public school heroes!
my update here is a positive one: instead of TIA as we initially feared, it seems my stepmum just had an episode of transient global amnesia, which — while alarming in many ways — should be fully recoverable. She came home from the hospital last night looking well and has just been told to take it easy here and follow up with her doctors when she gets home.
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These are some pics from my one solid workout this week:
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Edj, so sorry to hear this news
Saltmarsh, glad it is something that can be fixed.
Claire, love the pictures and the running commentary.
Karen, great famly pic
Above pictures on our current getaway to Sestri Levante, Italy, with only a covid certificate required at the border on the train. Sorry, my middle text should be above the first picture. This was on a 3 hour hike. At least for me because I decided to take the train back to our hotel while DH did another 1.5 hours
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So glad for the good news on your step-mum, saltmarsh.
Love the beautiful pictures saltmarsh & Heidi!
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I can't match the scenic beauty of the above photos, but here are some fun collages of our winery tour. Beautiful flowers, handcrafted North Dakota wines, creative uses for driftwood, rocks, and metal art (all from North Dakota sources); a lovely afternoon in North Dakota.
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I have three states left to visit and ND is one of them, this makes me want to squeeze a trip in!
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Oh my goodness! All these beautiful pictures! I feel like I've traveled to Washington, Israel, Maine, Italy, and North Dakota. Thanks for posting them. I'm so happy all of you are my friends and share your adventures with me.
Walked/ran this morning. Then I made a totem pole out of empty milk jugs and coffee containers. I really need to get out more lol.
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Saltmarsh - what a cool hike! I'd love to do that one. So glad your step-mom will be okay.
Wonderland - the totem pole - is that to scare off squirrels? One morning walking in my neighborhood, I saw a cat sitting on the roof of the porch. I thought that would be a great squirrel deterrent.
Ruth - the garden at the winery looks so peaceful.
Heidi - great pics of Italy on your hike.
Karen - great family pics. Glad you had a nice trip.
Gym yesterday to do weights, and it was so nice and not crowded. I just went in and did my weights and went home without lingering too long on the treadmill. I'm trying to find a better balance between exercise and spending time doing things I really love to do. I love to exercise, but I also love other things, yet there are only a few hours between the end of the workday and bedtime. I go to bed early (around 9:30pm) so I get lots of sleep until 6:15am. Dinner and packing my lunch are also must-dos that take time.
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One of the many things I love about this thread is that we share snippets of our lives with each other!
I did Dance2fit & Yoga yesterday. I have gone on one dog walk already this morning & I think we will do a little hiking this afternoon since the weather is pleasant.
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We are having glorious rain here! So lovely, though the press isn't quite accurate about the duration of the "dry spell." We had a rainy morning a couple of weeks ago, and we had storms the other evening. This is much needed and it's the type of slow rain that soaks in.
I am almost done with the 200 miles, only 12 more to go which I may do this afternoon, or over the weekend. I am definitely feeling cycling 120 miles in 7 days as haven't done any really long rides this year. I look fitter and a lot more buff. Really, really interesting how this can make all the difference.
Very glad I got in my adventure last weekend as a lot more fun cycling and camping when not raining.
Need to get to the small project I am working on. This money will fund my fresh oysters consumption plus perhaps a new pair of cycling shorts. No more bib ones for me for reasons you can most likely imagine.
I think my next long ride will be from a park to Taylor Shellfish Farms which is right on the water. But not for a couple of weeks. Then a working weekend at the vineyard over Labor Day. More fun times ahead.....and then I will be done with my nonprofit work at the end of the year. I can't wait to have this freedom. - Claire
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I have also been enjoying all the pictures.
Well, I did it and finished the 200 miles yesterday!!! Admit to gloating a bit and I am headed into Seattle for some more oysters, some tinted moisturizer with a high SPF, and to visit a different wine bar where a friend of mine now works. I think I will have him pick the selection.
My butt is ecstatic to be seated on a chair and not on a bicycle seat, so will give it a few days' rest
Loving the rain. So nice to have the earth come back to life. More later. Those oysters await.... - Claire
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I am loving everyones photos and reports of travels near and far.
edj: I am so sorry for your loss!
Claire: My butt hurts in solidarity! I wish I could find a comfy bike seat for our bumpy roads.
As for me, well, it turns out trying to pretend I am not sick and forcing myself to push hard hard hard when I think I "should" have recovered is, it turns out, not the best idea... But I have had fun. I signed up to row 6 days in a row! Was also supposed to do weight training 2 of those days. Along with working full time. By day # 4 of rowing I was already feeling pretty spent, yet somehow, even though my neuropathy is acting up terribly and I was nearly falling over on shore and my hands were all shaky so that I knocked a good water bottle right off the dock (where it promptly sank, of course, as it was full) and I was completely clumsy getting my foot stretchers set... Well, I didn't say, "Kate, you still are not over the anaplasmosis, take it easy" No instead I declined pontoons and rowed off in a racing single. The coach even said I looked "far less confident than I usually do in a single" which I just (still) attributed to it being a different boat than I have rowed before. Until we had time to "go around again" and for no good reason at all I tipped over at the far point from the dock and couldn't get back in on my first try. Sigh. So I took day #5 off, but I did row again this morning. Day # 5 coach rowed up and teased me about missing the night before.* I can be remarkably thick-headed at times. May take a bit of a rest day tomorrow....
*Claire: On the Connecticut, Kendall Landing off the Lyme road. Lovely day, though hot even at 8:30 in the morning!
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Wow, YeslamaDragon, you've had quite a week!
We are home...arrived back yesterday a bit shellshocked...the week overall was good, but also very stressful and my husband and I both felt fried. My son and I had had a couple of intense conversations in the car on the way home -- not bad, just the type of thing where I had to be all in while also making sure to keep focused on the road and not get us killed, y'know? Anyway, we all arrived safely and sprung our dog from doggie jail, which made us all happier.
Went on a nighttime walk last night with Little Miss Beagle and a neighbor. Managed to avoid the somewhat irritable cowlet (she's a young adult cow) from the "animal rescue" neighbors next door -- who had broken out of her enclosure for the second time in two weeks to eat our apples. Last time I helped corral her back in, but last night I was just too exhausted and decided she could eat our apples; I didn't care (enough to put myself in harm's way).
Took Daisy out for our morning constitutional, and we did close to an hour, soaking my hiking boots and pajamas in the dew.
Came back and told myself that doing ANY of my PT exercises would be better than none of them, and to stop letting the desire for perfection keep me from doing stuff that's good for me, so I did a half hour of PT.
When I got dressed, I put on a workout outfit for the day so that I am ready to do yoga or some other kind of exercise if the mood strikes. We'll see!
Meanwhile, I need to make myself a new, motivational wall calendar for my exercise for this month.
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Yeslama, you deserve a day off!
Saltmarsh, I always found car rides brought the best conversations with sons, who generally aren't as talkative as daughters. A exercise calendar is a great way to keep motivated. I track my weekly workouts in a notebook.
Yesterday a friend and I went hiking in a National Game Preserve. Here are a couple more collages.
Right after we drove into the Preserve we came upon a herd of Buffalo grazing right on the side of the road. We turned off the car and just watched them for a long time. They ignored us, eventually crossing to the other side where the water was. They had 5 calves (who are always born in April) hanging out with the herd.
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There's a lookout tour (you can get a certificate and sign the wall at the Visitors Center if you climb to the top) and a nice auto tour.
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Some scenes from the hiking trails.
Dog walking and Barre Sculpt today.
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Ruth: Glorious pictures! Love the pictures of the buffalo calves.
Saltmarsh: I record my exercise on my little pocket calendar. Keeps me motivated to see it in writing.
I met a friend yesterday at a State Park for a fun day of hiking and catching up. It was 90 degrees but luckily the trail is totally in the woods along a lake. Taking today off.
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It was 80 here an hour ago (at 4am) so I am not running. This heat is awful.
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edj3, my sympathies!
I have no idea what the temp is here, in part because either a person or a critter seems to have run off with the outdoor thermometer we had screwed into one of the top posts of our porch. Wish we had a video of what happened, because it's a truly odd place for something to go missing from! And who/what the heck would want our thermometer? I can say, it's humid as all get-out here. I put the dog off and didn't go out until 6am but it was yucky by then. I walked the dog for 36 minutes and then she was done and that was fine with me.
Because I am inexplicably stiff and sore -- and can feel myself slipping into my old muscle patterns that lead to injury -- I'll be focusing on my PT exercises today, and if I have the energy, I'll do some yoga.
Wonderland, I'm not sure what it says about me that I seem to need stickers and color and sparkles in order to motivate/validate myself (lol), but I do. *shrug* Sometimes I think the intentionality is key. And I think it both makes me feel better to see when I'm doing well, and can spur me to do a little more when I've slacked off.
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I need all the 'bells & whistles' I can think of to get motivated to do anything! I have a 'to do' list, and if I do a task/errand not on the list; I will write it down afterwards just so I can cross it off!
We had a big wind storm last night which has temporarily cleared the air (but no rain.......so depressing, the trees are dropping their leaves as an act of self-preservation). I'm off to Zumba now, will walk the dog, and go to Barre Sculpt or Yoga tonight.
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I feel for everyone in the sticky heat. A few hot days ahead here, but nothing that dreadful. The nights will still be relatively cool, so I just close up everything to keep in the cool night air. We usually get a few hot days in early August, though this is a week or so later than normal. So hopefully, I get out walking early and possibly a short cycle and swim in Lake Sammamish on Friday. Saturday will be the day that I do a ride along the shore in the Edison WA area ending at Taylor Shellfish Farm for oysters (and then cycling back to my car, about 40 miles total). I have never been to the place that's actually a working shellfish farm, just to the restaurants they operate. No parking problems when you bring your bicycle.
Tonight, I will make another poached salmon side which is so easy and delicious cold. By Sunday, it should all be over with rain Monday and Tuesday. The nights and early mornings will be in the 60s.
This should be the end of the heat for the summer. I have lived in New York and Boston during the summer, and even the really hot weather at the end of June was nothing compared to a good Bermuda High (without AC).
More later. It's a work day as I embark on the last 4 months at the nonprofit. I must say that I am greatly looking forward to being a Lady of (relative) Leisure and to a lot more free time. Next fun weekend is Labor Day. I can't wait. - Claire
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Cool collages, Ruth!
saltmarsh, if your system works, why not?
Claire, I love the way your exercise and food trips are interwoven.
Back from my Italian holiday and to my routine (Zumba, weights, dogwalking). I had my city bike serviced and had to shell out francs for new parts. Rides like new now, probably even better.
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There was a scheduling snafu, so instead of Zumba, the last minute fill-in did a lovely stretching class.....which makes me think that I really should do more stretching!
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