My weekend continues...

At times in these past few days it was difficult to tell where the heavens stopped and the earth began.

As quickly as the flakes fell to earth they gathered in numbers upon their terrestrial bed. Quickly and almost completely, the line blurred between the two.

Beautiful from the inside but wearying from the outside. We waited, we watched and then we shoveled.



© A Sacred Longing 2009-2010

My front steps after round 2 of shoveling:

My front steps 4-5 hours after round 2 of shoveling and waiting for round 3

Thank goodness for fancy electric shovels!  (especially for round 3 shoveling of the driveway)  Rounds 1 and 2 wreaked havoc on the conventional shovel.  We had to bid a painful goodbye to that old friend.

Yes, that is snow...up to his waist!

Great exercise for the Maggie!

Sammy loves it, too!

Now, this is where you will find me...

Keeping warm in the Blizzard of 2010!

Happy Birthday to me!

Here I stand with my birthday gift ready to log in a few miles to celebrate.

Our little suburb has created this beautiful bike/hike trail by converting old train tracks into a amazing cross county trail. I couldn't wait to check it out. Since an injury last summer, my running has been haphazard at best and my weight has crept up and up. This seemed like a great way to have some fun and get back in shape.

Here is my husband enjoying himself on his new bike.

Thank goodness we went early. It started out nice and cool but considering we were out there almost two hours the sun really started beating down on us.

Two hours later and almost 15 miles (pretty good for the first time out, I think), I couldn't pass taking a picture at this sign...a good way to end a bike ride on my birthday, don't you think!

'Cuz goodness knows...I am feeling like an old woman!

© A Sacred Longing 2009

It's Monday...I'm Crabby...You've been warned!

It is Monday. I'm not sure why but I am not a fan of Mondays. In fact, I get crabby early on Sunday evening just in anticipation of Mondays.

See....this is me...okay, not really but close, real close.

Not only is it Monday but July is almost over - it's the 20th for goodness sake! I mean, really, how did it happen! It seems like only yesterday we were just watching the trees budding and the flowers blooming and now summer is almost a memory. Yikes!

I hope that you have done something fun and exciting. We haven't a plan made yet for a vacation. If things keep going like this, I doubt that anything remotely exciting and fun will grace our calendars at least before the leaves start changing colors and falling off the trees.

**HEAVY SIGH**

Some days I just want to be 5 years old again. The days seemed brighter and longer. The only only worry I had was if I could stop the ice cream truck as it drove down my street. Catching lightening bugs was a twilight favorite and almost as fun as sitting on the porch drinking sweet tea and watching the cars drive by.

Life unscripted.

Simply lived.

I'm wishin' for some of that -- or at least for Tuesday!

© A Sacred Longing 2009