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6 month check-up

Well, by next Wednesday this year will be half-way over. While swimming laps this morning I realized I was listening to Christmas music. The range-of-motion teacher had her class stretching to it! It was quite funny, and also a little startling as someone asked me this past week if I had started my Christmas shopping yet. And for the second year in a row, the answer was no. (For new readers, I'm one of those strange people who normally shop all year long!)

This year's project list still does not have anything checked off. And I can honestly say that doesn't bother me. Life has been chock full of exciting, wonderful and even some boring things that have kept me very busy.

Some of the more fun things that have happened during the first 6 months of 2010:
  • shopping at a nursery for church plants - I have always wanted to visit the Campbell's nursery on Tryon Rd, and searching for drought-proof plants gave me the perfect opportunity to do so. Even more fun was returning with Rahmatu to thoroughly check out the place. It's nice to have a friend who likes plants just as much, if not more, than I do! Next we're heading to some place downtown Raleigh. The not so fun part of this was digging out all the root-bound ivy in the old planters! I dare not count how many hours were spent on this!
  • gardening & chickens - these on-going, food producing hobbies provides both entertainment and work! I could probably post something every week about the critters at our place, whether it be deer eating our pears, rats in the garden or broody birds!
  • Apples of Gold - this 6 week class usurped my reserved quilting time and kept us up WAY past our bedtime, but the lessons learned where worth the very rough Friday mornings. I enjoyed the time, but was also a thankful when it finally ended and life became a little less hectic. I'm one of those strange people who really does not enjoy having every night of my week filled with something.
  • And more classes! - I took a few quilting classes the beginning of this year, and thoroughly enjoyed them.
So what's coming up (Lord willing) for the last 6 months of 2010? Hopefully you'll finally be seeing pictures of some completed projects, as well as various stages of others. And of course they'll be a few more trips sprinkled in, along with classes, ramblings, and Christmas ideas. Onward 2010!
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Lydia said…
It's TOOO hot to think about DOING anything. Ugh.

On another note....did you get my email? :)No pressure:)
June 25, 2010 at 2:10 PM
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