weekend warrior

The boy and I worked our rear ends off this weekend on house cleaning and general sprucing up of the outside.

I have a lawn mower, but guess what? It's not motorized and is an old fashioned reel mower. With no grass catching nifty bag bringing up the back. So we mowed and mowed and raked and raked. And fertilized and weeded. And my god, I am so tired, I sit here with eyes half closed.

Then, we went swimming.

Is there a more perfect exercise? You burn a crapload of calories and you get to do it in water! I am a total water baby and love, love, love it. You can tell by the state of my hair.

In addition to the river (our kind of river, more like a creek to all you Easterners), we have a chlorinated pool on the ranch and we spend a bunch of time in it and will spend even more once we get the solar cover on it. At the moment, it's a tad bit chilly.

I am teaching the boy to swim and once he got over the skin-tearing of mama's arms kind of fear that he might "ground" (his version of drowning; because you sink to the ground), he is a little otter. I'll try and get a pic of him in his trunks, hat and boots - precious.

Take care.