HAPPY MONDAY EVERYONE! 😀 I had a wonderful, sunny, fulfilling weekend, and I also spent my downtime reading The Four Winds by Kristen Hannah which I am LOVING!!
THREE THINGS:
1.) Wayyyyy more paddle boarding yesterday than last week (which was just a test for me to see how I liked it). Yesterday was full on for a few hours (with mini “sunning” breaks to relax and just enjoy our surroundings). Pure peace. Except when I’d almost flip off the board, or like when the wind and waves wouldn’t let me advance at all. Paddle paddle paddle… still in the exact same spot. Stop paddling… suddenly find myself in the mangroves. 😂 P.S. Unlike last week, I did not fall in the water (though I did fall ON my board a few times).
2.) While I was paddle boarding (and standing and doing pretty great), I saw a “baby” shark swim past me. YES. A beautiful, perfectly obvious… SHARK. Small but big enough I’m glad I was not in the water when he went by me. Still so very cool to see.
3.) After all that workout, we had yummy Filipino food. A new-to-me restaurant that makes me want to make some of my own (because it’s one of my favorite foods – and I used to make a few of my favorite dishes regularly). I think it’s time to start that up again. And yes… there has to be rice. *keto is not rice friendly*
4.) Yes… a 4th thing. My Game of Thrones journey. I reached “The Red Wedding” (and lost my mind there)… and then… Joffrey’s wedding. It’s been a tumultuous weekend. 😉 Though I love this show SO MUCH. Talk about a story that makes me FEEL and makes my jaw drop consistently. HOLY. MOLY.
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1. Maryse, your weekend sounds fabulous…you must be in great shape to paddle board!! At my end, I continued my run of Jane Austen & Bronte book movies…many are vey well done. Lots of fun! 📽️
2. Just got back from buying flowers – a covid experience to be sure…limited number of masked people allowed in open air markets, and yup, lineups. I now have great big hanging baskets with “perfect red” geraniums and lots of ivy. More flowers for the back deck to cheer me up. 😊
3. My grandson is now walking and has learned to make very sophisticated raspberries with his wrist in his mouth. I think he might be a genius.
LOL on your grandson!!!! Sweetness. 🥰
And also, I love anything that has to do with planting stuff. Herbs, flowers, ferns, in pots or out in my yard… it all makes me SO happy.