another busy vacation week

This week has slipped by very quickly--we have managed several four-hour sessions on earth cellar building, and are now nearing the point where we will be able to start building the framework for the roof. We have also managed to get in some yard work--the first few strawberries and smultrons are starting to ripen, he fixed the ride-on mower (again) and has taken it down to clear something resembling a path between the many black currant bushes, we transplanted a little plant with maple-leaves that had been growing just inside of the carport.

I remember seeing it there early last summer, and wondering if it was a baby tree (there are no maple trees any where in the neighbourhood), but then it got taken out, along with the grass and flowers also trying to grow in that area, when he took the weed-wacker to it. When I saw it again this summer I decided it was cute, and perhaps it should have a chance to live elsewhere. So I moved it to the little triangle of land between the walkways to the house and sheds. Then we set three large red granite old curb stones around it, so that he will remember not to run it over with a lawn mower, and so that none of the paths drift onto it when shoveling snow in the winter. It will be interesting to see if it grows up to be a bush, a tree, or what.

Yesterday afternoon we visited the other local laurel and his family, since lord_kjar had been helping him with some computer repairs, and the part he had been waiting for had finally arrived. They invited us to stay for dinner afterwords, which was lovely (especially as they eat early enough in the evening that I was still hungry!).

Inspired by lifeofglamour's reports of her regular fitness workouts I finally decided this week to look to see if there were a useful phone app that might encourage me to do a bit more exercise than I get from my daily situps, yoga, and concreting rocks into the earth cellar in progress. I am not inclined to use videos as she does, but I was willing to download one of the simple 30-day challenge apps that only provides a list of which exercises it thinks one should do on a given day, and an illustrated description of how to do them. I can now report that starting from "beginner, level one" (which, so far, is taking me 15 minutes to complete all the exercises for a day) is really easy if one is as active as I am, except for the squats. There is nothing like squats in my normal daily movement patterns, so that one actually gets me to break a sweat. Today was day three, and it involved 75 normal squats, and another 14 "wide squats". Makes me a bit concerned about what Advanced, level two will be like. However, if I do the app in order from the beginning, that is six months from now, so nothing I need to worry about yet.

Have I mentioned how wonderful my boyfriend is recently? As I sat here typing this he came in and did the vacuuming. How many other people have partners who do house work after 01:00 in the morning (or at all)? Now I hear him playing the piano in the next room, so I will post this and go enjoy it...