Lets Post our Daily Exercise

I am also an outdoor exerciser. I hate being indoors in general!

We had heavy rain yesterday so I did weights indoors but today I got out and mowed the sky high yard.

What,I missed National Dog Day? This one would also rather be outside.

I admire those who enjoy running (My Mom was a huge runner: for several years she held her age category in the Pike's Peak Marathon)...but I hate it. Probably because of my knees (which are now both bionic). I enjoy walking and do love hiking (did a lot of backpacking as a teenager and young adult and did way too much fast walking up and down trails in the California Sierra Nevada, often wearing a fifty pound pack, which probably was what did in my original knees...)....but swimming is and will always be my favorite exercise. I love the water and I'd still rather be in (or under, I also love scuba) the water (pool, ocean, lake, you name it) then anywhere else! Biking is fun too, but I don't do it as much as I used to .....

Octogirl

You are wearing sweatshirts?? I'm so jealous. I'm in FL for work, here's how hot it got yesterday. Notice the heat index.

I'm enjoying the cool mornings - so nice to walk at 6:30 or 7 and not be hot - evenings are also starting to be a little cooler. At 5pm its 89 - don't know what the high was today but in the sun it felt HOT!!

Ruth - always enjoying the pictures of your WWW. I haven't been good about walking during the day as I've been going between schools but I manage to park a little bit away to at least get a few extra steps!! Will wait till after dinner to walk.

It was in the mid-70s this afternoon so DH & I took the dogs for a lake walk (while wearing shorts & tee shirts). It is generally not so cool this early!

We are having perfect weather and I hope it lasts for awhile. I am happy to report I am not yet wearing any jackets nor in 102 degree weather. 75 yesterday. Mowed the back yard and weeded. Although this year we had the coldest winter temps I have ever experienced and a lot of rain and nearly the hottest temps for a period this summer, ironically I think we have had the most number of perfect weather days too. Wild swings though, for sure.

Zumba, Yoga & dog walking. I'm going to a college football game tonight & a high school one tomorrow, so it must be fall!

GREAT news on your MIL and yes, you do have amazing children

Happy weekend all. And prayers for those in Dorian's way.

I did a couple hours of gardening yesterday and today, the heavy messy kind. Good upper body work. Weather here is lovely with low humidity. A wonderful rarity this time of year!

I went for my first bike ride yesterday. My bike tire needed replacing so I hadn’t been all summer and I really missed it. I did 48 minutes because I wasn’t sure I should start with the 2.5 hour trip up to my walking lake that I like to do. But I feel OK today. I rode around a smaller lake in town and then through the cemetery. My husband said I am creepy, but it’s pretty and serene and historical.

I hope everyone is having a safe and happy weekend. Dorian looks like a doozy for maybe a huge swath of coast.

Our weather is enviable in the summer; not so much during our long, long, long winters!

I walked yesterday & did some mat pilates (on utube). I will do the same today as my fitness center is shut down for Labor Day.

I am back from my wine dinner and vineyard camping adventures. Not that much exercise as it was too hot after 9a, though delightful evenings and nights. I did walk the vineyard twice and I also got in about 20 miles of cycling prior to the dinner. I missed out on tubing yesterday because I have a busy month ahead and needed the time to regroup plus get back prior to today's traffic. My place feels palatial after two nights in a very small tent.

I did get to help out with bottling which I am counting as exercise. Something was wrong with the labeling machine so I was part of a team soaking off all the mistakes and then drying the bottles so they could be relabeled. Until they figured out how to get the labeler working reliably again, there was lots and lots of work on that end. Later on, it was taping up boxes. We got to taste our wares at the end and delicious!

I got to eat fresh peaches off the tree, table grapes from an arbor (spicy and sweet), and sample many of the ripening grapes in the vineyard. So many colors and flavors!

Came back with lots of wine and fresh fruit from the Yakima Valley. Delicious melon, peaches, nectarines, tomatoes....plus a fresh peach and raspberry pie which I had for a late lunch yesterday and will have again for breakfast in a few.

I have decided to wait until November to return and do a hike. They do an Airbnb so I will stay inside. Much more fun to explore the canyon than in the heat.

The wine dinner was delicious, and great fun. We had it on the terrace with the grape arbor overhead. Last night's dinner was also delish. Made a tomato, basil and mozzarella salad, and was delighted to learn that the local version of fresh mozzarella works just splendidly for this dish.

Much cooler here in the Puget Sound area. Hoping to get in about 20 miles of cycling plus a swim today. I need to go swimming once this year, and think today is the day.

Happy Labor Day! - Claire

Wow! Thanks for sharing those pictures, Hiking! They make me happy too!

We had an interesting evening; a huge 85 mph wind/rain storm blew through town about 5 pm. Semis were tipped over on the interstate. power lines down, branches all over, trees toppled (thank goodness we had our trees trimmed on Thursday, including loping off branches that were rubbing against our roof!). A house down the street had a big tree ripped out of the ground & in landed right on their roof. Yikes!). So we got lots of exercise cleaning up! I went to Pound this morning & am off subbing for the afternoon. Maybe I'll go to Barre tonight.

Denver broke a record high on the 1st with 98 and yesterday the 2nd another record high of 100 - the hottest ever recorded in Denver in September. Today was only in the 80s!

DH and I went to visit his mother over the long week-end. She was discharged to rehab on Friday and re-admitted to the hospital on Monday due to internal bleeding - it has been a real roller coaster - My MIL has been in the hospital or rehab (2 brief 4 day stays) since August 8th. Her pcp talked to her today about palliative care and she agreed - she also agreed to DNR. She told my husband today that she is tired and this isn't living. She was such a strong woman till she got sick in June. It is so hard to see her decline. It was hard leaving yesterday. My oldest niece who lives in Oregon is going to visit her grandmother later this week. My girls were both there - not the visit they had planned but they loved being there for their grandmother.

While we were gone, our dear Mischa lost the use of her back legs - her hips just gave out. She no longer could walk. We have a great dog sitter (also our groomer) who took amazing care of her even after this happened - he slept on the couch to be with her. This happened some time on Saturday. Our vet came to our house on Sunday to check her out. Mischa had been having hip problems and sometimes had trouble standing up on the tile floor - but she was doing okay. We knew that when we cam home we would have to say good-bye. My youngest daughter was getting back to Denver today and was heart broken that she wouldn't get to say good-bye so we decided to wait till today. (instead of last night) Last night I slept on a thick foam mattress in the family room with Mischa. DD#2 loved on her all day after she got home. We made the hard trip to the vet at 5 - it was the right thing to do, but so awfully hard to say good-bye to our beloved Mischa. She was 10 1/2 and we adopted her when she was 3. The house feels so empty. We have a large dog crate in the family room which Mischa loved to sleep in - and I said to DD#2 that I wanted to take it down and she said "maybe not". So the crate will stay for awhile - at least till DD#2 leaves next week. This is the first time in over 25 years that I have not owned a dog - I've had dogs since I was 9 years old - when my big kids were younger, we went 6 weeks without a dog as we were going to visit my parents and my mother did not want us to come with a puppy (my parents were animal people) - so we waited and go a dog the day we came home from visiting. This was in 92 or so.

This has been a hard summer.

Sweet dreams.