Fun Day

I had a super Mother's Day yesterday.

Youngest and I hiked the 4 mile lake loop, up and around the dam.  It's my favorite local hike and it's been over a year.  I forget how much I enjoy it.  Beautiful views, water from lake, river and streams.  Nice balance of big hills and easy paths.

Love this water stream.  It's so loud for a little stream.
Standing on a little bridge over the "falls."

After we stopped at a local coffee shop and I got a peach-ginger iced tea.  Fresh steeped over ice -- my favorite kind.  Youngest got a cold brew (I passed because of the caffeine).  I'm trying to support local business I like after this hard business year.

Home for lunch.  Made a monster egg sammie for my son (all the fixings on a roll).  I had chickpea and lentil salad.  Then we polished off the GF pound cake.  Spoiler -- making it again for this weekend.  

We spray painted the table and it looks good.  You can see the black a little bit through the paint and I like that look.  Between coats, youngest gave his car interior a spit shine using hubbies potions and gadgets.

Youngest came with awesome gifts.  Game for our Asheville house -- wanted some fun stuff for rainy days.  AND ... a hand held steamer for clothes.  Great idea -- knocked it out of the park.

The shade porch plant I ordered arrived overnight.  I repotted it and fingers crossed it's happy in the new environment.  Turns out it's a garden plant.  I hope it likes a pot too.

Today is a hair appointment and the cleaning crew.  The house and I are both getting a spruce up.  I have lots of kitchen cooking and baking this week, a few errands and some house chores to get finished in time for our drive on Thursday.

I didn't sleep well at all last night.  Big thunderstorms (had no idea rain was coming).  Woke me up and then I had hot flash after hot flash.  Finally asleep about an hour before the alarm.  Guess what's due to come this week?!?!  Hope it comes early in the week before our weekend plans.  I feel yucky enough that it might come today -- pretty please!!

I'm looking forward to a good week ahead.  Lots of stuff to do, but stuff that qualifies as alone time.  We're set for a fun weekend of social stuff, so this is a nice balance ahead of family time together.  Have a good Monday.  Stay well.  Later gators.