Even though I've been blogging steadily for the last month I feel like I've been away from blogging for a long time. During April I had a focus each day and now I need to get back in the rhythm of thinking of ideas for posts and taking pictures. To prime the writing pump I'm going to jump back into blogging using the Random 5 Friday format I've so enjoyed.
1) Sadly, that's past tense. Random 5 Friday is now officially over as my blog buddy, Nancy, has ended her blog, "A Rural Journal." I miss Nancy's writing and photographs and I miss the companionship of the Random 5 link and the wonderful bloggers I met through linking to Random 5 Friday. Thanks, Nancy!
2) The very wonderful "Sunlit Sunday" link ended at the beginning of April. Between these two links and "Pink Saturday" I had a very fun weekend structure. I'm still sticking with Pink Saturday and will be posting my Downton Abbey costume pictures for it tomorrow.
3) I had hoped to meet my goal of forty bags of clutter out the door by Easter and I have discarded/donated/recycled twenty-five bags as of May 2. Not quite the goal I had hoped for, but probably twice as much as I would have done without attempting the Forty Bag Challenge. There was one casualty of the project. I looked for my black leather flats last week when I was packing for reunion and I could only find one of the pair. I believe in my zealousness I discarded the other one accidentally. I wore these shoes a lot and they were my most comfortable shoes besides my sneakers. I'd worn them for a number of years and they were getting close to their last days, but I think they had another year to go. I actually need to go shoe shopping -- not one of my favorite activities -- and replace them.
4) I'm still basking in the glow of our class reunion and also having difficulty getting back into my regular life at home. I'm not sleeping quite as well and feeling a little more tired than usual. The weekend was such a success that there are plans to do another reunion next year. These are not the usual reunions of thirty or forty years at the college, but off-site. I'm not sure where we'll go next year, but I'm thinking somewhere South might be a nice choice.
5) I've got lots of pictures from last weekend and I'd like to share a few more Longwood Garden photos.
1) Sadly, that's past tense. Random 5 Friday is now officially over as my blog buddy, Nancy, has ended her blog, "A Rural Journal." I miss Nancy's writing and photographs and I miss the companionship of the Random 5 link and the wonderful bloggers I met through linking to Random 5 Friday. Thanks, Nancy!
2) The very wonderful "Sunlit Sunday" link ended at the beginning of April. Between these two links and "Pink Saturday" I had a very fun weekend structure. I'm still sticking with Pink Saturday and will be posting my Downton Abbey costume pictures for it tomorrow.
3) I had hoped to meet my goal of forty bags of clutter out the door by Easter and I have discarded/donated/recycled twenty-five bags as of May 2. Not quite the goal I had hoped for, but probably twice as much as I would have done without attempting the Forty Bag Challenge. There was one casualty of the project. I looked for my black leather flats last week when I was packing for reunion and I could only find one of the pair. I believe in my zealousness I discarded the other one accidentally. I wore these shoes a lot and they were my most comfortable shoes besides my sneakers. I'd worn them for a number of years and they were getting close to their last days, but I think they had another year to go. I actually need to go shoe shopping -- not one of my favorite activities -- and replace them.
4) I'm still basking in the glow of our class reunion and also having difficulty getting back into my regular life at home. I'm not sleeping quite as well and feeling a little more tired than usual. The weekend was such a success that there are plans to do another reunion next year. These are not the usual reunions of thirty or forty years at the college, but off-site. I'm not sure where we'll go next year, but I'm thinking somewhere South might be a nice choice.
5) I've got lots of pictures from last weekend and I'd like to share a few more Longwood Garden photos.
Everything was beautiful at Longwood Gardens, but this may be my favorite picture from our visit there.
We've had two glorious days of spring weather and I'm happy to say I'm officially back to iced coffee season, one of my all-time favorite parts of the summer. I'm also back to wearing my spring jacket, packing my gloves away and actually thinking about air conditioning. Somehow I went from wearing my winter coat on Wednesday to thoughts of air conditioning today. Beyond comprehension...
Wishes for a sunlit Saturday. As ever, thanks for visiting. I'll be back tomorrow with a visit to "Downton Abbey," and hope to see you then.
