I'm Back!!! Well maybe...

Its been more than a year since I last wrote on this blog. I t is not that I don't find it as cathartic as I used to it's more that I dont think to write. Which is in fact what a lot of my reservations where when I started this. This year I did so much! And I did document it on my Instagram! (Much more my medium) @mylois and @gizmostripeadventures
I spent a lot of time hiking, doing yoga and oh I did a sprint triathlon! We by hand (200 80# bags of concrete) created a patio with a permanent roof and privacy walls. A retro fit for my hot tub with new surround(in progress). A friend died. Another got married. I visited my son and family! I guess I am saying I am living my life. I am going to put effort into creating the habit at night to put a few words here. We'll see how it goes. Know if I dont for a while again that life is happening and I am participating!

Still Cancer Free!!!

These are the days I like. .. Going to the oncologist and getting good news!!! So now (as I was before) I am preparing for the Komen Breast Cancer race in September... here is what I have done so far...

The payoff!

When putting in a garden you don't think about the payoff... or at least I didn't... it is a lovely calm that comes over you...  I feel like it was exactly what my world needed...

Gardens & Gardening!

Is it not ironic how things that make us think "old person" when we are young. Just make us happy when we are not young!?! I recently to on the project of transforming my sad front yard into a cottage garden! It was crazy hard work tearing out the sod and relocating to the back yard (long story). And after a week and a half of back breaking work, I started planting this evening!  One more step to the right path...

Memorial day weekend is now!!!

My mother and I go every year to put flowers on our loved ones resting places... my father took her before he passed and it fell to me after. But I have come to love this time, as sad as it seems. To see the people, the beautiful cemeteries, the flowers and flags...

Walking walking walking!!!

Been doing a lot of walking lately! Check it out!

Did the Dash ... the Doggie Dash!

Wet and wild! !! We had a great dash!  Very very wet! My boys did amazing. Then we went and had breakfast... then a long soak in the tub... a good damn day!