Plus many other exciting things in July…
On July 27th, my friend Gena and I were taking a walk through the lovely Lincoln Memorial Gardens, and we came upon a squirrel who ran way out on to the very tip of a branch on a tree. He looked like he surely was going to fall, but of course he didn’t because he’s a squirrel, and he proceeded to pluck a big nut off the tip of the branch and then scurried back to polish it off.
I took a video, and looked up the tree and it’s a paw paw and I’d never seen anything like that, a squirrel gnawing so fast and furiously. They obviously have very sharp teeth.
That evening we saw a rainbow down at the dock. Beautiful.
When I went for a run a couple of days later there was a cluster of Surprise Lilies. I though they didn’t pop up til August, but I was wrong. I sure would love some of them in my yard sometime. Hmm, maybe they’re something that deer don’t eat? I could plant a bunch of them out front.
There was a triathlon on the 27th and I took this picture at 6:15 in the morning! We went down to see if we could see any swimmers but didn’t see any. I think they weren’t going to start til later, so I went back to bed. Oh well, I’m sure they had a fun time out there.
That evening we went to a “white party” at the fabulous Danenberger Winery. You were supposed to wear all white, and this is as much as I had. I’m sporting my Harry Potter purse, which I’ve only worn one time.
Because Amy hadn’t ever been to Danenberger, her reaction was just like mine was the first time I saw it – she ran all around like crazy, marveling at how cool it is. We took a selfie out by an outside water feature that I hadn’t seen before.
Here’s all of us who went. A good time was had by all.
It was a great evening, but as I drove home it started to rain. I was with Randy and I should have had him drive because suddenly the rain was a huge deluge and I couldn’t see the road and was panicking big-time. We somehow made it home. Whew.
When I woke up in the middle of the night I was having Afib. I think it’s because I’d done a vigorous weightlifting workout earlier in the day, then lots of dancing that night and then the anxiety from the scary pouring rain. I’m going to try not to have all of that going on in a day, and will hopefully be able to stop having the Afib episodes.
I actually had another one in the middle of the night on August 22nd, and I attribute that to getting up in the morning and immediately running around and fixing lunch for a little luncheon party and then giving a massage and then hosting the luncheon and then going for a run afterwards because the weather was so good. Was that why it happened? Do I need to stop doing so much? I kind of think that’s the reason. It’s disconcerting that it happened only a few weeks apart.
It’s always something. Meanwhile…the end of August is rapidly approaching…
Ok then,
Mrs. H.