500 Miles

Well since starting to wear my Fitbit , I made it 500 miles.  I started wearing it Dec 25, 2013.  So as a reward to myself yesterday, I decided to walk the length of Birch Bay Park. I ditched my walking partner, Tigger the wonder dog and did this one alone.

Bald Eagle I saw on my Walk at Birch Bay

Lately, it just has been me and my dog walking.  I prefer to walk with a partner and I prefer to vary the route.  I get bored easily. It is something I feel I have to do.  I try every day to reach my 10,000 step goal.  I guess I am evolving in that I don't need another person to walk with or push me to reach my fitness goal. So, I am hoping to reach 1,000 miles before my birthday in November.

African Violets and Water

I have been having trouble getting my African Violets to bloom.  I had one that in the recent past was a prolific bloomer but lately hasn't has any blooms.  I have usually watered my violets with tap water.  But I noticed that when the city changed from getting our water from the river to well water that my plants stopped blooming.  So, I decided to do something different when watering. I switched to distilled water. My Grandma always kept African Violets and only used distilled water to water and had beautiful blooming violets. So for the past few weeks, I switched to watering with distilled water.  Now, I have blooms. The violet pictured still has a way to go to full health but it has blooms.  I still have one violet that still hasn't bloomed at all.

The Traveling Stache

We got little mustache stickers on our fancy coffee's the other day.  Well, Charlie has had loads of fun placing the little mustache in various places. So, the traveling stashe was born.

 

 

 

Dollar Store Origami Kits

At my local dollar store they had origami kits.  This past week was teacher appreciation day and on one of the days students were encouraged to bring flowers.  So I thought Charlie and I would do some origami flowers.  These flowers were challenging.  My husband made the morning glory.

Charlie and I attempted lotus flowers. Charlie crafted a lily pad (instructions not included).  Below is the results.

The kits came in paper airplanes, animals, and flowers.  I also bought the airplane origami kit. I think origami is a great craft for grades 3rd and up. 

Here are some links to other origami projects we have done
Suncatcher
Origami Yoda
Hearts

Holy Rhubarb Batman

My Rhubarb plant is out of control.  I found out last year how much I love Rhubarb. Rhubarb is the plant that just keeps on giving. I discovered this Orange-Rhubarb Breakfast Bread from Taste of Home.  This has become my kids favorite. The only draw back is it only makes one loaf so I doubled the recipe in that I made it twice. Here is a link to my post about regular Rhubarb Quick Bread.

Before Baking
No pictures actually exist of final
product because they didn't last
long enough for that - That good!

Happy Cinco de Mayo

 

My youngest styled this picture on a taco Monday a couple of weeks back.  It just so happens that Cinco de Mayo lands on a Monday too. Just had to share.

Time to ......

 

Time to break out the old Blazer's T-shirt.  Pappy is a die hard blazers fan even at 93 listens and watches the games.  I can't believe they won their series with the Rockets.  On Friday, you probably could hear the screaming at our house and at Pappy's.  Way to Go Blazers!