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Five Things Friday
Good morning!
Let's just get started, shall we? No time for preamble today. . .
1. If you haven't seen this Instagram video yet, you might want to click on it for a view of my terrace garden in the pouring rain yesterday afternoon. I'd have thought the skies might be rained out by now, but nope, there was more Wet coming down in abundance this morning. And our weather forecast suggests the only break we can look for now is that next Wednesday it might be only cloudy all day rather than rainy.
2. At the park, during the last week of her visit here last month, my granddaughter looked across, from her spot halfway up the slide, at some kids who had climbed another, riskier apparatus in the "big kids" section. She commented on how high they were, almost in the sky, and I agreed, and we talked about whether the kids were almost as high as planes flying. That must have been the prompt for her to say, a bit later, "Nana, I'm going to Ee-taly." And when I acknowledged that indeed, she was, she looked at me very solemnly, and added, "and you goin be really sad."
True that, darling. True that. . . .
3. So I'm very happy that we've now arranged to spend a few of our Croatia days at the beach with our Roman crew. Who know? Perhaps we'll even find a slide.
4. I was doing so well with my new fitness regime, rebuilding my running time/distance through a program drawn up my physio, complementing those carefully scheduled runs with strength-training sessions under the guidance of a Personal Trainer. But somehow, last week, I did too much of something or everything. My knee is telling me, forecefully, that I've got to slow down on the running and wait for the strength-training to build more support. Luckily, my Trainer loves a challenge and she's so encouraging. I'm just back from a session of productive stretches and ball- or foam-rolling (for fascia release), and we're working out a plan to get me to and through my three weeks of travel. My carry-on might have to make room for a mini-roller and a few fascial-release balls, and I'm learning a few good hotel-room stretches. Much as I love my running, it's more important to me to be able to walk, and to look forward to walking well into my old age.
And if the weather ever changes here, cycling is a reasonable substitute for running and makes a nice cross-training balance as well. . .
But that's a big "if."
5. And in case you're interested, my personal writing project continues, and I've found a reader for my emerging draft, someone with considerable experience as a (published) writer, and as a teacher of creative writing. We've set up a schedule that should result in my amassing a book's worth of chapters over the next year. My partner already has a contract for hers, while I have no idea what I might do when I've completed that first draft. But at least I'm daring to commit to the process, which is a big enough step for now.
5b, if I can sneak that in, is that I posted another belated, catch-up, too-slapdash-because-I-don't-have-enough-time posts on my Reading Blog, in case you're looking for a few new titles.
Now, if you'll excuse me, we have our first adult overnight guest coming this weekend and we have another opera to attend tonight (the last one in this year's Opera Festival, and a guaranteed crowd-pleaser, The Marriage of Figaro, with costumes by Canadian-international fashion star, Sig Neigum. I'm also determined to finish that promised garden post (the photos are all loaded but we need some words. . . )
And you? What are you up to? Or have you a comment about any of my Friday Five? Or perhaps you have a random Friday One or Two or Three of your own. The mic is all yours now. . . I'm listening.
Let's just get started, shall we? No time for preamble today. . .
True that, darling. True that. . . .
And if the weather ever changes here, cycling is a reasonable substitute for running and makes a nice cross-training balance as well. . .
But that's a big "if."
5. And in case you're interested, my personal writing project continues, and I've found a reader for my emerging draft, someone with considerable experience as a (published) writer, and as a teacher of creative writing. We've set up a schedule that should result in my amassing a book's worth of chapters over the next year. My partner already has a contract for hers, while I have no idea what I might do when I've completed that first draft. But at least I'm daring to commit to the process, which is a big enough step for now.
5b, if I can sneak that in, is that I posted another belated, catch-up, too-slapdash-because-I-don't-have-enough-time posts on my Reading Blog, in case you're looking for a few new titles.
Now, if you'll excuse me, we have our first adult overnight guest coming this weekend and we have another opera to attend tonight (the last one in this year's Opera Festival, and a guaranteed crowd-pleaser, The Marriage of Figaro, with costumes by Canadian-international fashion star, Sig Neigum. I'm also determined to finish that promised garden post (the photos are all loaded but we need some words. . . )
And you? What are you up to? Or have you a comment about any of my Friday Five? Or perhaps you have a random Friday One or Two or Three of your own. The mic is all yours now. . . I'm listening.
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