I spent most of my day outside since it was just so gorgeous.\u00a0 I had planned on getting the rest of the pile on the dining room table taken care of, but I guess that will just have to wait until tomorrow.\u00a0 Instead I did a ton of lawn\/garden work:\u00a0 I mowed, and then used the leaf blower to really clear off the sidewalk and driveway; I pulled all of those annoying weeds growing up between the cracks in the sidewalk; I planted a few more flowers in the fenced side of the yard; and I spent a LOT of time weeding and replanting flowers in the giant planter by the mailbox (which after so much work looks better but not awesome.\u00a0 I’m hoping after a few days the flowers will take and start to look a little happier.\u00a0 We had a spreading low vine in the planter there but it just looked like an overgrown weed, so Tim suggested I get rid of it… so I tried to dig it up so I can plant it somewhere else.\u00a0 Then I planted a bunch of impatients in place of the vine, which will hopefully survive in such a shady area.)<\/p>\n
I also went for a nice run this morning (and I’ll have you know I learned from yesterday’s mistake–I was READY before I said the R-word.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 See, she can be taught!)\u00a0 I decided to try the trail by the river again since I really hadn’t been down there since May.\u00a0 Back in March when it flooded the whole trail was covered in water.\u00a0 I checked back in May and most of it was still underwater.\u00a0 So today I thought it would for sure better.\u00a0 I was wrong.\u00a0 But it made for an interesting run.\u00a0 I got to one place and had to turn around b\/c the road was closed due to construction, then I got to another section and it was clear but the whole trail was covered in a thin layer of mud since it had<\/u> been covered with water, and the I got to another section and it was still underwater so I detoured to one of the make-shift trails they made which was quite bumpy for the stroller (Chloe started saying “all done”–I guess it was too bumpy for her!) and I got halfway down that trail and THAT<\/u><\/strong><\/em> one was also covered in water.\u00a0 So.\u00a0 I gave up and ran back home.\u00a0 And I’ve learned my lesson.\u00a0 It will be quite some time before that wonderful trail is back up and ready again.\u00a0 I had never expected the flooding to have such a dramatic effect.\u00a0 Somehow I imagined things just going back to the way they were.\u00a0 Obviously I don’t have a lot of experience with flooding.\u00a0 Tomorrow we’ll just run in town.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n But now I’m pooped.\u00a0 So I’m going to snuggle up on the couch and just veg for a while.\u00a0 All that sun really drained my energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I spent most of my day outside since it was just so gorgeous.\u00a0 I had planned on getting the rest of the pile on the dining room table taken care of, but I guess that will just have to wait until tomorrow.\u00a0 Instead I did a ton of lawn\/garden work:\u00a0 I mowed, and then used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}