Lets Post our Daily Exercise

Happy 4th everyone. I mowed again today 40 minutes and then a bike ride 1 hr 20 minutes. This is weird but I also fell on my bike today. Ginger we are just determined to be laid up! Thought I may have whacked my knee pretty hard but I continued to ride for another hour so must not be too bad. It was pretty skinned up. Carb loaded at dinner so I'll take Cheryl's advice and try not to feel guilty. I had to have a piece of red white and blue cake right? Resting with my feet up until fireworks if I don't fall asleep

trying to catch u on over three weeks of posts! A good 15 trips up and down the stairs today hauling summer deck furniture back outside. Also DH and I helped some friends put up a new gazebo they bought, then they came to our house to help put up our new gazebo, then back to their house for drinks, snacks and a grilled steak dinner under their gazebo. A good day with friends.

Had a blood draw Thursday for BRCA genetic testing. I will be having a hysterectomy later this summer regardless of BRCA results but hoping for negative for my daughter's sake.

Hi, did an hour water jogging in friend's pool. Then reminisced about the past as her mom passed Friday and so we just celebrated her life. She had 3 girls and 10 boys. We all grew up together so that was a lot of remembering - over 60 years we've been friends.

My sister also turned 70 today but we cannot see fireworks from here as this estate has a long, winding driveway to get to the house and sits back on at least 25 mostly wooded acres.  Her husband does so much of the outside work himself that he has his own backhoe!

Not leaving until Monday so will have chance to swim again tomorrow. 

Night sculpted friends.

Nisa, Firecracker 5K is a walk/run held on the 4th of July. Like a Jingle Bell 5K held in December. :-)

Beautiful morning and will get out and walk in a bit but having some BCO time while DH is still asleep.

Didn't care for Spy. Plot idea was good - girl behind the scenes goes into the field - but they went campy instead of smart. Also way too many f-bombs. I wish it had been made in Mel Brooks-style of sly humor instead of in-your-face crude.  Oh well...

Happy Sunday! ♥ to all

Sorry about the scrapes Ginger and Twohobbies. Hope they heal fast.

Patoo, 60 years of friendship, wow! Glad you could spend time with her.

Went for a little walk around the hotel where we spent the weekend for a family reunion.

Did hill work in this heat, but only about 20 miles. This makes it 130 miles for the past week, Monday-Sunday. I am fit and ready for the Big Ride. I think one short weekday ride just to keep things supple.

It's supposed to cool off a bit towards the end of the week. I may go swimming later, but drive to the spot. But need to get some work in...nothing major, but a few odds and ends. Plus mend the snazzy trousers that somehow developed a hole  - Claire

On a good note, I just won the large oval cast iron Le Creuset baker on eBay, so have something large enough to do grilled trout. YUM!!!!

(shyly) Half an hour on the elliptical trainer, and a round of Nautilus...but then this speaks more to recovering from spine fusion than anything the cancer treatment's thrown at me for now. (on the mild end of the spectrum, in any case). I hope to manage through any side effects this time.

welcome queenmomcat! 

I walked about a half hour with my husband late this afternoon. I'm banged up but I wanted to get out of the house and it really doesn't hurt much more to walk than sit.

Paton that is a long friendship. what a precious gift. Queenmomcat welcome. I hope your surgery was successful.

The problem with all this exercise is my appetite! I'm eating like a pig and not healthy food either. I've got to get back on the wagon next week

Walked another 30 minutes around the lake today. I appreciate the forum here that let's us share these successes and encourage one another.

To a healthy, more active week for all!

Welcome to all the new fitness friends!

Ginger and Twohobbies, hope you mend quickly post bike spills. Cheryl, your day is exhausting to read, ha ha. Claire, one week to the big ride...Can feel your excitement. Ruth, great story how your holiday picnic tradition started. Love that you are so considerate of those without a place to go as we often get caught up with our own holidays and forget those less fortunate. Patoo,what a special friendship to last so long. Guess you're a keeper! Badger, way to go on the 5k. Sounds like fun.

My exercise over the last 3 days consisted of a variety of chores. Friday I did alot of walking while shopping with a friend but undid most of it when we went to lunch. . Saturday I again got plenty of steps while running errands and helped hubby install a new kitchen faucet. Today was laundry, swimming and lots of weeding. All this rain lately has the weeds going crazy. Luckily so is my garden. Got my first cucumber today. Looking forward to fresh veggies over the next couple months.

Good night all.

Welcome to the new ladies. Wonderland it looks very windy at the beach and the water looks so choppy and glad you didn't become shark bait. Odie can you send us some of your rain. Ruth what a lovely 4th of July tradition and good luck with your packing. Patoo how fantastic to have such a lasting friendship and how wonderful that you were together at this time to share your memories. I spent last night holding a very terrified and shaking dog, they allowed fireworks back in the city and my gosh it was a madhouse, my neighbor and I watched the city fireworks from our backyard and the streets around us gave the city a run for their money and to top it all off at 2.30am the poor dog woke me up to let him go out and wouldn't you know it the idiots in the next street over let of a huge firecracker the poor dog almost had a heart attack and scampered back inside and today while I was out he has bitten himself raw, off to the vets we go tomorrow as the tranquilizer obviously didn't work.

This morning did U Jam dance class and this afternoon went to see the movie Max, it could have been a 'made for TV' movie but I enjoyed it.

Hi All! Been here in Atlanta and the weather has been iffy, meaning rain yet still very warm. I'm flying back to the UK tonight and enjoyed my time with friends. Lots of walking, eating and laughing. Can't believe it, got my film marked quickly and received a email Friday that I passed my Body Balance/Flow and full certified to teach - YAY! Thank you (((ALL))) for you support and encouragement Amazing that after surgery in 2012 it took 9 months to do a up dog in body balance and now I get teach it! Anyway, long day/night before me as I have a red eye flight out of Orlando to Heathrow. See you on the flip side!

Pilates (trying new gym closer to work). OK, especially one of the ladies with whom I chatted in French However the instructor was also chatty and detained me for 20 minutes after the class so I missed 2 trains and will now be hme at 9pm, 1 hour later than planned. I still need to go to the supermarket (which closes at 10pm), coook a meal (I had planned a bolognaise, but will need to chop the onions), and reconcile my bank accounts. Got up at 5am today and getting up same hour tomorrow as attempting to cycle to work. Not happy. Why do people alwasys think that if you are single you have plenty of spare tijme?

Had a wonderful weekend with our long time friends. Will see them again this weekend when we go for the funeral. Will have to drive 5 hours from the mountains which are on the west end of NC and our friends are on the east and then will drive back to the mountains the next day.

Ruth nice of you to have the open-to-all picnic. I'll have to remember that, just in case! I know you heard there was another shark bite today in NC. I think someone is trying to scare me (because you all know it's all about me, right?) Not only will we be going to NC beach next month but will be renting a house on the beach, similar to the one with the deck collapse. Yes, we will be checking the deck (it's a multilevel, wraparound deck) and not have too many on it at once.

Have not been getting as much exercise as I would like recently but that will change in time.

Night sculpted friends.