The Race, A Change in Plans, A Windstorm,

The next two days are shifting ...

But, first, the car race. 

I enjoyed it -- much more than I expected. Marking our calendar to go again next year. It's not a spectator race, so we were part of the crew entrance. There was a weather hold and my BIL's car broke, but we hung out, watched other races once the storm passed. Met people. Festive group. Lots of laughs. No crowds. 

Couldn't get it to start.
Parts ordered, but not in time
for the races this weekend.

I packed a fancy picnic and it got knocked on the ground.

Goodbye, fancy picnic. 

So I ate chocolate for lunch.

It was an oddly ill-fated day that was still a lot of fun. 

We joked about a curse. 

Now the shift ...

It's a bit of a long story, but we were meeting the kids at a park this morning --  no football. Hubby had playoffs for pickleball and I have bookclub. Pickleball got canceled and now kids are over all day for football (from 11-7).

Of course, I LOVE getting to hang out with my grandson, but now I'm losing late morning, late afternoon and evening to truck playing. Don't get me wrong, it's fabulous ... but I scheduled that time for things I need to get finished ahead of our trip and a little quiet time for me. I'll be gone for a few hours at bookclub (while he naps, as it turns out). 

I wish we had stuck to the original plan. 

Park and breakfast was perfect ... fun for all and easy for me. 

My morning is now figuring out food for a day of football and squeezing in a couple of errands. 

Rush, rush, rush before bookclub. Dang. 

Monday changed too. A weather front is coming in with high winds and heavy gusts. The afternoon mountain hike is at a national park that hasn't had trail maintenance since the shutdown. There will be trees and large branches down and I'm not taking a chance. I never like dangerous. 

This opens up the afternoon so I guess I can shift some of today to tomorrow. 

Trying to keep my mind in a good place. When my schedule is this tight, I need everyone and everything to hold steady and be (do) what they say. I need to CONTROL the world and the world never listens.

It's got a lot of nerve. 

The weather is a bugger too.

FIRST FREEZE tonight.

Eeek, my garden. 

My outdoor pots.

My redneck garden cover of old sheets will struggle against the wind storm.

Can I go with the flow?

I have no choice.

Can I go with the flow with ease?

Probably not, but I'm trying. 

Have a good Sunday. I'm determined to -- because it's all good things. There's no excuse for anything less from me, given the suffering happening everywhere. I'm lucky and privileged. I know it and I need to remember it. It's never a chore to make time to help. 

I'll leave it at this before I get going on the suffering and those who do so much and those who do so little.

Later gators.

P.S. On a growth note, haven't complained once about bookclub. 6 scheduled. I think 3 will come. Doesn't phase me this month. Progress (at least this month).