It’s time to sit down once again with a beverage of your choice and chat – I’ll remind you that I don’t like coffee or tea so my drink of choice today will be water. Let’s chat about things other than just running, cycling, strength training, yoga, and complaining about our most recent injuries. Sound good? I’ll go first…

 

If we were having coffee…..

I’d tell you that today we’re driving home on our final leg of a just over a 2-week vacation and I’m not quite sure I’m ready to get back to reality. Once we got into Naples, Florida the cold snap the south had experienced moved out and we had nothing short of perfect weather for our stay. I wish I’d thought to set my water bottle somewhere with a palm tree backdrop to use instead of the above picture.

 

If we were having coffee…..

I’d tell you that I liked the way Kim posts her monthly stats and asked if she minded if I copied it. She gave me her blessings and here’s my first edition.  As you can see, I spent a lot of time on my bike, both inside in cold Virginia and outside in warm, sunny Florida.

In addition to cycling, walking, and strength training, other recorded activities included snow shoveling, but not enough time worth adding it to the stats. I’d like to think that’s behind me, but our weather forecast for next week when we’re back home isn’t looking so good.

 

If we were having coffee…..

I’d tell you that I recently completed a long overdue project. Last year, my mom gave me two shoeboxes full of our family slides to digitize (within the shoeboxes were 38 boxes of either 24 or 36 slides). I bought a Kodak scanner (which also scans negatives) and spent a couple of days organizing and scanning slides. What a wonderful walk down memory lane!

One of my favorites was of me on one of my early bike rides. I love the way my mom is looking at me.

 

If we were having coffee…..

I’d tell you that we’ve had more snow this year than the last three years combined. I don’t believe our part of Virginia got any snow while we were in Florida for two weeks, but there’s lots in next week’s forecast.

 

If we were having coffee…..

I’d tell you that before we left for our trip, Using dry cleaner bags, I tented a few of my house plants that like twice a week waterings and hope they survived. Fingers crossed!

 

 

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Today I’m joining Deborah at Confessions Of A Mother Runner and Coco at Running With Perseverance for their monthly Ultimate Coffee Date linkup which goes live the first Friday of every month.  Be sure to stop by their blogs for a cup of coffee and to say hello; and while you’re there, be sure to check out some of the other bloggers who are participating in the linkup.

 

  • Questions:
  • • How’s your weather been?
  • • Do you have copies of your childhood pictures?
  • • If we were having coffee, what would you tell me?