Sucking on blogging.....

I have been so slack, pretty much all year on blogging

UGH

here are some things I need to remember to blog about

maybe while on vacation I can catch up

**Myrtle Beach with our great friends Jerry and Glenda

**Johnny and his eyes! haha

**my terrible experience with nail salons

**Our daughter and son-in-law purchasing their first home

**how this year has been one hell of an emotional year

**Planning retirement

**37 years with the love of my life

**Pippa Lou turned 5 years old

**Bella Boo will turn 6 years old on July 28th 
**my thoughts on Game of Thrones
**a snake....seriously, I have to document when I see one
**22 drafts of post I have written...going all the way back to 2007!

later.......

Fitbit ...

I love / hate my Fitbit!

I've been wearing Fitbit for a long time

Johnny gave me a new one this past Christmas

one that tracks more things plus you can read your results

on the band itself vs always having to go to the app or web site.

So that's really nice

But I have not worn my Fitbit since June 7th and today 

is June 28th!

here is my hate.....

• I have a permanent dent in my wrist. After not wearing it for 21 days, the dent is still there
• I become a little too obsessive about how many steps I get in. It really annoys me if I don't get in my 10k steps each day
• Now have become obsessed with my resting heart rate AND my heart rate while exercising
• I get very aggravated with the Fitbit taking forever to synch with the phone app
• and lastly......why can't battery life be longer!! 

and here is what I love.......

• I love that I have become obsessed with my steps. I'm not getting any younger and I need to keep moving so I think that is actually a good thing.
• love that I can see how many calories I burn as I sweat my butt off in Jazzercise. Even though I know it's not 100% accurate, it's close enough for me.
• I guess being aware of my resting and exercising heart rate is a good thing. Even though I know it's not 100% accurate like the calories it still could alarm me to a problem. (ie: the getting old part)
• I really love the tracking my sleep feature. Not that it gets me any more sleep but when I'm really tired, I can look at my app and see that I only slept 5.5 hours......there's the problem! haha

So I guess some of the things that annoy me are actually things I do love

about the Fitbit. I guess like everything else, being aware

of your physical activity overrides the annoying things!

Now if they could just make that battery life a little longer!

later.......

Blog anniversary ....

today is my blogs anniversary

my very first post was on

June 2, 2007

wow!

I have written 1,246 blog post!

wow

I talk about the beach a lot, my family, new things I buy,

new recipes I try, exercise, my home

just my life

I've grown older

and I think I'll just keep on posting

later.....

Nature just kills me ....

I really love animals

I love the birds in the spring and I always feed them

even the dang squirrels, for them I buy a big bag of corn on the cob

and I have a feeder that the cob fits in

They are just fun to watch

We have a lot of the little yellow finches and the gray,

black and white finches. And the cardinals, they are my favorite

this past winter we had some snow and I had filled the feeder

with the seeds that the cardinals love and wow I had

about 25 cardinals out back, male and female.

their brilliant red against the snow was beautiful

I had to stop putting a wreath on the front door in

the spring as the birds would always build a nest

and then it would just worry me so badly that they 

wouldn't survive or a dang snake would crawl up my

front door to get the eggs.....arghh! 

if that happened, I would have to move

back a few years ago a baby robin fell out of the nest

and we couldn't not get to the nest. The momma robin was around

so we put the baby in a shoe box hoping she would feed it

but she didn't.....so we did! We researched what to feed it

and you have to do it all day long.

we were taking vacation days as we had family here from

out of town. So everyone pitched in taking care of the baby

eventually it was able to fly and the momma bird returned

so that turned out well

And now again, a whole nest fell out of the tall pine tree

3 babies and one egg unhatched.

the babies are older though because they are covered in feathers

and you know I have to take care of them

I just don't have it in me to ignore them and let them die

so we put them in a box with some papers

I put seed in there for the momma bird

and she has been bringing them food every day, all day long

it has been 3 days now, they are getting bigger and stronger

and momma bird is still feeding them all day

now here is the most sad part....poor little Pippa Lou wants

to be their mother! (remember the Dr Suess book, Are you

my Mother) one of the birds fell out of the box and sweet little

Pippa Lou stood guard over it until Johnny came outside and saw

what was going on. Johnny put him back in the box. We can't

leave her outside even though we have the box up high

she just wants to stand guard and it scares momma bird.

that's it for now

later.....