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We have had a crazy weather day. It was very still & humid, with low creepy looking clouds until 3:00 in the afternoon (I know the time because I was driving home from a talk I had gone to). My phone put out a tornado alarm, so I zoomed home; got the car in the garage & the hanging baskets of flowers into the garage before it started storming. We didn't get a tornado (yet, anyway), but hail, high winds, thunder/lightning & buckets of rain…..for 3 hours! It's stopped now, although I can still hear some rumbles. Kind of scary.
I did 40 minutes of dancing with Marshall Fitness on the computer.
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Today is gonna be a catch up day for housework that I let slide over the weekend. Was exhausted from the 2 hour trek to the wake on Friday and the 2 hour return trek.
Saturday I just lounged around the house. Yesterday got my hair dyed and a trim, then hubby and I took Nugget to a dog park near an old Navy friend of hubby’s who also has a dog and the two puppers played until they were exhausted.
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Here's something interesting: A study of 1/2 a million people found those who climbed the most stairs had a 24% lower risk of dying from any cause, and a 39% lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease. So, keep climbing!!
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Zumba this morning, worked outside this afternoon, HIT tonight.
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Ruth: Goodness, I'm glad you didn't have a tornado. 3 hours is a long time for scary weather. Interesting statistics about stairs. I have a full set of stairs leading to the basement. Need to walk them more.
M0mmy: I also did some catch up housecleaning yesterday. It's easy for me to let things slide and that's not a good thing.
Mowed for 80 minutes today.
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Swept and mopped the kitchen floor
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I went to Barre and Zumba yesterday. Here's today's picture of the Wednesday Walking Women. It's avery windy day!
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School is out for the summer! I have a PD on Monday and then nothing school related except submit my paperwork for renewing my CDE (Colorado dept ed) license for the last time ever - it's good for 7 years!
Going to the mountains today till Sunday morning. The weather is HOT in Denver so 70s will be wonderful.
DD and GD are coming for 10 days later this month.
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Yea, on the end of the school year, Karen! It's a good feeling when you renew your license for the last time (after 35 years, I 'earned' a lifetime certificate, so I guess I can never not be a teacher!). Enjoy the mountains. It's still really, really windy here; but not hot. I went to HIT this morning & will do Dance2fit and probably Yoga tonight. We're going out of town this weekend, so I am 'pre-exercising'.
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Ruth - I'm not sure if CDE has a "lifetime" certificate, but my national school psych does have a retired certificate if you no longer work in the field. It got my initial CDE license in 1987 a year after moving to CO. This year is 47 years since I got my BA, and 34 since my doctorate which seems unreal!!
Denver is supposed to reach 96 today - glad we are in the mountains where it will be in the high 70s. Yesterday the weather was perfect - blue sky, sun and not too hot to hike. The mountains were glorious. Got some great shots.
Today we are going to do our hard hike - labeled on the map as "difficult", but when you get to the top the views are magnificant. It is 4 miles round trip with elevation gain of 1,372 feet so at the summit its about 11K above sea - not a 14er but amazing anyways. It is the hardest hike I've ever done. We will have tomorrow to recouperate from this hike. We take our time and stop as many times as needed going up and coming down which in some ways is harder. I'm always spent after doing it.
Our favorite hike is much easier which we do every trip and a couple times each trip. We did it yesterday and will do again tomorrow.
Have a great day
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Enjoy your hikes. I'm sure the views are magnificent! I worked in my yard for about four hours today. The two days of 50 mph winds gave me lots of twigs & branches to pick up, and also dried up the soil so much that I had to water everything. Tomorrow we go off on a three day weekend ourselves. We will be in Medora, which is right on the edge of Theodore Roosevelt National Park (and where he came to recover emotionally after his young wife & mother both died on Valentines Day 1884). We will do fun tourist things, some hiking & some just enjoying the Badlands. I am so tired from all the yardwork that sitting in a car for 4 1/2 hours sounds quite delightful to me! (I went to a mat pilates & stretching class this morning.)
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Karen: Yay for the last day of school! Have a fun in the mountains. Your hikes sound amazing.
Ruth: Have a great time on your trip. You deserve it after 4 hours of yard work.
Met a friend this morning to walk. Then this evening I went for my regular walk.
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Walked this morning.
This afternoon dh, dd, and I went to see a Harry Potter movie that was accompanied by a live symphony orchestra playing the soundtrack along with the movie. It was such a unique and awesome experience!
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Pretty day. I sat outside and read this morning. Walked later this evening.
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The movie with the symphony does sound cool!
We just got back from a great weekend in the North Dakota Badlands. Lots of hiking, wandering around (and also lots of food). Last night we met up with my college suite mate and her DH, which was very fun!
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Ruth: That picture is gorgeous! You need to have it enlarged and framed.
Went to my true crime club today. Then took advantage of low humidity and low dew point by sitting outside to read my book.
Walked in late afternoon.
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Went to Dance2fit this morning & Barre this afternoon. DH & I went out to dinner to celebrate our 36th Anniversary. Hard to believe!!
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The Wednesday Walking Women took a tour of the new campus of a school for medically fragile children. This school was originally founded in 1941 for what were referred to as 'crippled children'. Now that most children are educated in the public school, the mission of the school has changed & a campus designed for kids who need more space for medical equipment, adaptive technology etc. was needed. The statue we are standing by is of Dr. Anne Carlsen, who originally founded the school way back then. If you look closely, you can see that she was born with stubs for arms & overcame a lot to become a national, and international, advocate for the disabled. I love her quote, "I am too positive and too determined to be defeated."
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Hey friends, it has been two weeks since I have been here…of course I have lots of excuses!
- summer school
- got a new office computer, which actually means I have had no computer for over a week
- bought a new car, our first in 8 years (Toyota Venza our first SUV styled car)
- celebrated our 32 anniversary
- ….whatever!
At any rate, it has been busy here in VA. Tuesday was the midterm for my summer school class, two weeks from today is the final…a whirlwind.
I have two more PT sessions, one today and the last next Tuesday before I am released from that (hurt my lower back in March catching my mother from a near fall)
If I consider PT my gym for the day, have been making it to the gym 4-5 times a week.
Our weather has been up and down temp wise with a lot of down (for us that is high 70's/low 80's) but the forecast looks like we are turning to summer…some stretches of 90's ahead.
Beautiful pictures Ruth
Wonder, I love those movie and symphony events, have been to a few.
Karen, enjoy the summer and seeing your daughters.
Now that I am up and running again on the computer (of course lost all passwords in the transition) I'll stop by more frequently. TT
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TT, I had to get a new computer too. What a pain! I think you will love an SUV. We bought a subcompact SUV after we got Bruno....the Brunomobile, we leave the back seat down & it's his car. 😆 We liked it so much that when we replaced the second car, we bought another one just like it (different color) for us & our human companions.
It was 90 here yesterday, which is much too hot for us northern girls, back in the 70s today. I'm off to HIT & will do Dance2fit tonight. I need to do yardwork this afternoon. Happy Summer!
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It’s gonna be a warm one today and warm and muggy here tomorrow. So I am just puttering around doing little things.
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Ruth: Dr. Carlsen sounds like she was an amazing woman. She would be excited to see her new campus.
TT: You have been busy! Enjoy your new computer, new car, and Happy Anniversary!
M0mmy: Our hottest day of the year so far will be tomorrow.
Mowed for 1 hour and 45 minutes today.
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We had the grandpuppies over this afternoon while DS's air conditioner ws being fixed. Animal House!
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If I do anything today, it will be early. Gonna be a hot one again. Our hottest days so far come next week.
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Went to Mat Pilates and took a dog walk.
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Yoga & a long dog walk. It was a beautiful day here!
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Last night dh and I went to an outside event with live music and dancing at a local winery. Dh doesn't like to dance but he will dance a slow song with me. I was able to enjoy other songs with my sil and bil. It was a hot night but lots of fun.
This morning dd and I met for coffee then went to the Farmers Market. Our garden has been producing yellow squash, zucchini and cucumbers so I only bought green beans, cabbage, potatoes and onions for our Father's Day lunch tomorrow. Going to make potato salad, Cole slaw, and green beans. Will be grilling hotdogs and hamburgers. Will also fix a squash dish and slice cucumbers.
Walked this evening. I finished at 8:15 and there was still plenty of sunlight.
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Hope everyone had a nice weekend! I went to Zumba this morning & will do HIT tonight…..cleaning the house in-between.
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It's brutally hot here in Denver - 96F! Thankfully we don't have the humidity like back east. At least tomorrow it will only be in the high 70s.
I walked early this morning with a gf and since then I've been in the house all day. I've been cleaning out my son's old bedroom and the closet. Still lots more to go through in the closet. We had World Book Yearbook encyclopedia from 1962 to 1973 that I'm finally taking to Goodwill. We've been in this house for over 30 years and they've been on a shelf in my son's closet since we've moved in. Hopefully someone can put them to good use. Next is to give away all his college text books and throw out notebooks from high school and college. Threw out the broken computer desk that had been sitting in his room. He left at least a dozen empty shoe boxes on the closet shelves!! Gotta love that kid! Well, he's not a kid, but he's my kid. Lots' more to do, but that will be for another day.
20K steps from walking and all the steps in the house.
DH and I just went for a walk and we melted. Will wait till the sun goes down to walk this evening.
Hope everyone is out of harms way with the heat and rain.
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We might have severe thunderstorms tonight, so I am trying to decide if I should drag all my pots and hanging baskets back in the garage again.
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