summer goal re-cap

With less than 3 weeks left of "official" summer - The Autumn equinox falls on my bday (the 22nd) this year - I am checking on my progress. I am a perpetual slacker so I better get my rear in gear. Here are/were my goals:

- Read at least 3 books

Shit! Why is it so hard for me to make time for something I enjoy so much? I read Case Histories, so that is 1. I finished the 2nd half of Me Talk Pretty One Day so that is 1 1/2. I am currently reading The Devil in the White City (CREEEEEPY!!) so I know what I am doing tonight! Then I better find another book.

- Knit every week (I have a lot of gifts to make for the future and my skillz need some refreshing and refining)

Um yeah, not even close on this one. But I am signing up for a socks class that takes place October 4th. I think I will change this to a Fall goal (what a cheater!).

- Help Trevor more with our garden

Success! I have also been helping eat stuff from it a lot :)

- Make the back yard pretty and fix the fence

Nope. Grass is dead. Fence is still white trash.

- $Pay off debt$

Hmmm I would say this is a partial success? We paid off our home depot account and I have been making steady payments for the TV we bought but unexpected car problems, vet bills and other costs of homeownership have hindered some of our progress. Such is life!

- Go camping until I have had my fill of it

We did Calf Creek, Topaz Mountain and Strawberry. A fair amount of camping. I will be happy with this because it's 300% more than we did last Summer.

- Ride bikes...a lot

You betcha! Still goin strong. We rode bikes to the Tuesday evening Farmer's Market last night thank you very much.

Going out with a bang!

This last weekend we were supposed to camp at Bear Lake with some friends but I got really sick last Tuesday and Trevor had another obligation on Saturday night. Long story short, we bagged the camping trip (waverunners and all) and decided we would maybe try to go some time in September before the weather turned real chilly. Thursday night rolled around and our friends that we were going to camp with called and said that we had to go ahead not only to stay at their parent's cabin at the lake but we could also take out the BOAT!! This was an unprecedented event...cabin and the boat to ourselves!?!? I'm so glad we got to be part of it! We left on Thursday night after Trev's last regular season hockey game and finally made it up there about 1:30. The drive was only about 2-2.5 hours from our house but we didn't leave till kinda late. We had an absolute BLAST! Friday started out with pancakes followed by a quick 10 min drive to Idaho for a bee double eee double arrr you ennn. Nothing like the outta state fat tire! Mmm. After farting around and grocery shopping and stuff our friend's SWEET little boy Sylas needed a nap and we ended up getting out on the boat around 5. I haven't done a lot of boating in my life but everyone kept talking about how fab the water was and everyone had pretty much cleared off the lake so we really lucked out. Over the next two days we got our fair share tubing, wakeboarding and I even ended up riding the waverunner too.

This is Duke and little Duke OR Dexter and big Dexter. Seriously. Same dog, different size.

Hey! This picture makes it look like I actually stood up on the wakeboard!

Yeah, this happened like 10 times :) Next time! I'm gonna do it next time!

Trevor became Sylas's good buddy (He can play "blue blue's" on his phone) and they hung out while mama drove the boat and dada wakeboarded.

Favorite quotes: "dada down!" "dada boat?" "vrooom"

My FAVORITE picture of trip

Finally got the Strawerry pics up!

Well I am still figuring out how to do this photo adding stuff...don't know why I'm struggling with the concept? HA! Anyway these pictures are about a month old but we had a blast at Strawberry...fishing...beer drinking...mountain biking ...ahhhh summer.

You had to have a white car to be at our camp :)

Lil tired pups

Making progress

I finished my first book for my summer reading. It was Case Histories by Kate Atkinson, and was really good! Kenzie loaned it to me like a year ago and I never have any time to read but I am really glad I read it. If you like mysteries and aren't bothered by some foul language and sex than pick it up.

Trevor also planted 18 tomato plants yesterday...well I guess 16 since I helped and planted 2! So I helped Trevor with the garden and met another goal! Ha ha. I also planted some herbs and have been seeding and watering the lawn for most of this month. I hope it starts to grow better soon. Watering it a lot has really helped fill it in, but we still have a few big bald spots.

I am working on talking Trev into a camping trip, but he is hot to trot on the house and yard so it is proving to be difficult to convince him to stop and go play. I forget what some of my other goals are...good thing I wrote 'em down! OH! I rode my road bike for the first time yesterday and am going to again tonight. Look at me go! Crossin' shit of the list left and right! We rode our bikes down to Living Traditions and had some Sudanese food and $5 beers. We saw some really neat stuff, like bonsai, pottery, weaving and a man was doing metal and iron working. I love the nice weather and this weekend really felt like Summer to me.