I love this time of the day in summer when the sunlight is so horizontal that all the colours looked drenched in some kind of super-yummy syrup. It also helps that my kids are in bed and Dan is off on his motorcycle enjoying all our leather gifts for his birthday and there is this lovely hush. Even the dishwasher just turned off.
This weekend I went on a terrifically lovely horseback ride with one of my great friends from her place to mine - roughly 16 kms. It was funny because I tried very hard to slow down and enjoy the journey, knowing my tendency to go faster and faster when I am on a horse as the adrenaline and endorphins make me happy and that makes me want to accelerate. Apparently I was still a little rushed from her perspective so that is something to continue to work on. Slow. Breathing. Look around. Stop even. Ha ha. We had a great time and hopefully we can do it again a few times this summer and perfect our pacing. I took Chess of course to keep me confident for the first time in even seeing if trails existed, but I really want to start riding Jetta who is a little less of a cement-mixer in terms of feel. Now that the last of the spring birthdays are past I am feeling a bit more optimistic about time with her. She has calmed down considerably even in the 12 or so hours I've put into training her on the ground. I think that she'll do great now that I have a solid program to follow that makes sense to me and obviously to her as well.
Seth was off this w/e to a full-fledged bowyer course "tillering" a longbow. He came back tired and glowing with one more full day to go. I'm so proud of him and his bizarre interests. He's been making his own arrows all week and they actually work.
Levi on the other hand has come up with the interesting and misleading hobby of finding, cleaning, sterilizing and using old cast-off beer bottles. He is constantly on the lookout now and nothing will induce him to actually cash them in. Oh no. This is a collection with a purpose. Unfortunately I have now become so used to rows and rows of empty beer bottles lining horizontal surfaces outside and inside that I fail to remember to get him to clean them up when people come over. So I think our reputation for clean living and sobriety may be taking a steep down turn. Also if you happen to see my kids reading Calvin and Hobbes and sipping occasionally from a brown bottle, that's homemade lemonade they are enjoying. Really. :)
So far Heidi's hobbies continue to be normal, like trampolining with a hula hoop. And painting all our deck chairs, lamps, etc. with chalk drawings.
The garden is half planted now - hooray! I am in the enviable dilemma of trying to decide whether to priorize going bike riding, running, doing weights with Cindy (Crawford), finishing the garden, working with Jetta for a couple hours, or (wait for it) vacuuming the living room. Probably that last one is by far the most necessary but I'm thinking if there is any sun at all it will not happen. Maybe I can do ALL of them! By noon! No, just kidding. I really am learning something. I will definitely only do half of them by supper. Which will be leftovers.
Ah, the magic is fading outside. Now it's almost a sunset but not quite. Gotta go, here comes my biker husband!
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