30 x 5 Challenge Conclusion

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WoooHooo!!

The 30x5 Challenge has ended! How'd you do?

I did really well the first week, made the whole 30 minutes all five days. Week two went a little less easily. I was sick (very sick) on Thursday and still recovering on Friday so I started by using up my two "get out of moving free" days. I spent more than 30 minutes raking and shoveling on Saturday getting the garden ready for planting. Hit the treadmill on Sunday but then Monday came and honestly, I don't know what happened - I just didn't get it done. I finished the week strong though so I made four of the five days.

The results? I have more energy all day if I just get my rear upstairs and on the treadmill in the a.m. I've lost three pounds between the exercise and the sick thing. Yeah!

I'll definitely be joining the Challenge again when it picks up after Easter.

Visit 2nd Cup to link to other Challenge participants and thanks Linda for the inspiration and for this award!

Thursday Thirteen - Just Randomly

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1. Why aren't there ever guys on What Not To Wear?
2. Why does Indiana get a freeze every year after my lilacs bud?
3. Is there an easy way to clean a George Foreman?
4. An old high school friend has built the coolest "green" house in California.
5. I'm toying with a product idea that I think would sell really well but don't know what the next step should be.
6. I miss some of the people I worked with and some of my customers but I really don't miss work at all.
7. How many less companies would be struggling and laying people off if they hadn't had to pay the exorbitant cost of health care that the insurance companies have caused to soar?
8. Why is it, for some people, so much harder to turn the lights off than to turn them on?
9. The sky was so clear last night that I could see Orion perfectly - the photo I took of it however would be entitled Blackout.
10. Why can't I find a garden row maker thingy (like a single wheel with a single plow) like the one my ex-father-in-law (that word looks way over-hyphenated) had anywhere?
11. Where did the word Easter come from?
12. When and how did the bunny get involved?
13. When Jesus asked Peter: "Do you love me more than these?" (John 21:15), who or what were the "these" he referred to?

Bonus question for Easter contemplation: What is your "these"?

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless is hard when your computer has been down for days!

























Isaac and Great Grandma B.

Sermon in a Sentence

Happiness, in any situation, grows in direct proportion to your acceptance and in inverse proportion to your expectations. (Unknown)

Photo Hunt - Stripes

The obvious Stars and Stripes


Sky Stripes


Wallpaper Stripes

Sky Watch

Go here to join in!

Wordless (not really) Wednesday & 30x5

Sorry no post's until today - I've been a little ill, but I'm feeling much better. So here is today's not so Wordless Wednesday and a 30x5 Challenge update.

This is Isaac discovering that there is an underneath to the buffet.

This is Isaac trying to go underneath the buffet.





And this is Isaac totally honked off that he didn't fit under the buffet.









Okay, I admit I did not make it on the treadmill either Sunday or Monday. We are, however, allowed two days off. Plus, I'm pretty sure if we count coughing as exercise (and I think we should as bad as my stomach muscles hurt from it) that I put in more than 30 minutes each of those days. Did I mention how glad I was to have done the sit ups so those muscles would be nice an sore before the coughing started!!

That being said, I am happy to say that I did spend 30 minutes on the treadmill yesterday. So, it may have been more of a stroll speed than a walk, wog, or jog - but, hey, the rules only said movement!

Today I made Gracie very happy by taking her to walk at the park.



She was one tired pup when we were done.