Yard work, jogging, eyes, pillows....

Hello,

How is everyone this fine, warm, sunshining day?  It's absolutely beautiful outside today.  It's in the 70's and not a cloud in the sky.  Love it, love it!  Yesterday afternoon we spent 2 hours working in the yard and my landscaping.  We have 3 different types of Maple trees in our back yard and if your familiar with Maple trees you know they are notorious for dropping small twigs.  We had a ton of them in our yard so we picked up 3 very large yard debree bags full.  Also, I trimmed some bushes and picked up pine cones from one of our pine trees in the front yard. It was nice to do some outside work.  After we finished the yard work we decided to take a motorcycle ride.  It was a little chilly but we enjoyed the ride.   Terry is going to come up in a couple weeks and help us pull out our deck furniture and also get my pots ready for planting.  Terry loves doing home projects so it's nice to have him help out.

As most of you know I hurt my back a few weeks ago and I've been restricted on what I can do at the gym.  Thankfully, my back is better, so this week I started back to my normal routine.  In my cardio class we are now jogging 2 miles.  I would never have thought that I would be a jogger but I really like it.  I'm still using lighter weights than before in my weight lifting class but I plan on moving back up in weights hopefully by Monday.  I want to make sure I don't do anymore damage to my back.

I went to Columbus today for my eye check-up from my surgery and all is going well there.  I don't have to go back for another 3 months.  We went out to lunch (Yum!) and then we went to Polaris mall.  Bob loves Down pillows and his is so old so we went to Bed Bath and Beyond....OH MY!!!!!!!  I have driven past that store many times but I've never been in it.  Just to sum it up, I am in LOVE!!!!!  That store is great....It has everything!  There is so much to look at and so many unique things that I've never seen before.  The prices on some things can be rather high but I am so glad to have checked it out.  Right down from that store is Kirklands Home which I have shopped at before and also Catherines.  I've never been to Catherine's but I know several people that shop there so I plan on taking a day and heading back down.  Watch out credit card here I come!!!!!!!!!!!!!  By the way Bob did find a new Down pillow so he can now part with the one he's had for like 15 years.  Bye, bye pillow!!!!! 

That's about all that is going on up here.  Have a nice day!

Time Change!!!!!!

I have a question....How many people forgot to change the time on their clocks last night? 

It's March...

Is it just me or is this year flying by?  Can't believe it's already March.  We are still having snow in Central Ohio.  Supposed to get more in the next few days.
Of course, on one of the coldest mornings this past week I get up and it's really chilly in the house.  I checked the thermostat and the temperature was lower than it should have been.  We usually keep the furnace set at 68 during the day and 65 at night.  Well, the thermostat was saying it was 63 degrees.  Brrrrr!!!  We ended up calling in a repairman and it turns out the Inducer wasn't working.  The Inducer is responsible for closing/opening the flu and also igniting the gas burners.  Once it was replaced we had heat again. Thank you, Mr. Repairman!!!!

I hurt my back at the gym on Thursday...Not sure exactly what I did but it felt a little irritated towards the end of my workout and later on after I got home it just got worse and worse.  I went to my Chiropractor and he said I slightly turned my lower back.  So, for now I can only walk at the gym.  I just started two new classes.  One is a weight lifting class and the other is a cardio class.  I really hate missing them but I have to take care of my back.  So for now I am applying ice for 20 minutes every hour and trying not to do anything to aggravate it.  So frustrating!!!

Sorry, but I couldn't find a picture of a female with backpain. That's the best I could do!!

I have my diet group this evening...not looking forward to those scales.  I haven't done well at all this week.  Oh, well, I will just try harder starting tomorrow. 
Better go.  Have a nice day.