Let's Post our Daily Exercise

Gorgeous pictures Claire! Thanks for posting them.

Karen: Safe travels. You have had such a exciting trip!

Ruth: OMG! Stella is adorable! I want her! Your kitchen will be so pretty.

I finished mowing the yard and luckily no more bee stings. It is so humid that I was completely drenched.

At Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. Flight was supposed to leave at 11:50 am. Delayed till 4:00pm. As a result missing my connection in Toronto back to Denver as I only had a 2 hour layover! By the time I land, no more flights to Denver tonight. hopefully I can get on a flight Tuesday morning. They can't book the ticket till I arrive in Toronto. I called the airline after they told me that here! It's already been a long day! I was up at 5:30 so I could walk and went to bed way too late! Hope to sleep on the plane. Air Canada gave everyone a voucher to get lunch. They will put me up in Toronto. My DD#1 and SIL live there so I could stay with them but depending on what time I get through customs and re-book my flight to Denver I might just stay at the hotel. I had 2 appointments on Tuesday that I needed to cancel. It's been a royal pain the the you know where!!! Waiting for phone to chart then going to walk around the terminal for 1/2 hour or so. Have a great day

Karen - what a wonderful trip you've had. Thanks so much for sharing the pictures. Just saw you were stuck at the airport, and now with no connection after you get to Toronto. Hope it doesn't diminish the vacation glow too much. Ruth and Wonder - ouch!! Those wasp stings are nasty and hurt for a long time. Stella is adorable! Beautiful pix Claire, and hee hee on the sign.

Escaped the heat with a nice weekend at the cabin. Spent Saturday chasing away a particularly persistent black bear mom and her cub. She tore down a couple of the bird feeders before we spotted her, so we chased her off, but she kept coming back about every half hour or so - I guess to check for spilled seeds. The cub was totally adorable tagging after her, and we'd love to watch them, but for their own safety we always chase them off because we don't want them getting too used to humans. We keep old metal pots next to the doors so we can grab them and bang them to scare them off. Black bears tend to be rather shy and just want to be left alone, so even just shouting at them is usually enough to make them take off. I managed to grab a few pix on my cell phone.

Here she is eyeing a hummingbird feeder before we took it down. You can just make out the baby cub climbing on a rock in the woods behind her just behind where her ear is pointing:

And here she is walking across the front lawn towards where another feeder usually hangs:

Mary, we must have been posting at the same time. Oh my, those a great bear pictures!

Welcome hsant! I also have been trying to exercise in the morning bc of the heat. Sometimes I have to wait until late evening, though.

Nats: The bears are so cute! I would want to watch them all day but glad that you try to scare them away.

Karen: Sorry about your flight being delayed. Sounds exhausting.

Ruth: My stings hurt a little and then itch a little. They aren't as bad as a wasp sting. Hopefully yours will start feeling better soon.

Hi All! I walked/ran this morning in a tiny drizzle. Felt good on my face. I have a long meeting tonight so I made sure I went this morning.

Hsant - welcome!! Nice to see a fellow hiker on the thread. Karen - hope you finally got home. What a mess. Ruth and Wonder - hope those stings are clearing by now. Forgot I have my annual MO appt this afternoon - I just checked my calendar for today and there it was. At least I'd already put in for leave when I made the appointment last year. Those appts are a bit stressful, so maybe it worked out well that I haven't been thinking about it till now.

Standard 2.5 mile run this morning along the golf course. It was blessedly cool and lovely, with a beautiful sunrise. I even had some spectators to cheer me on!

Been MIA for a bit. Went on a couples golf trip this past weekend. 22 people in all. Have only played 2 times this summer due to Rads and the heat. Did manage to do both days of 18(I'm more of a nine hole girl!) and dinner but had to beg off evening activities. When dear friends will I have my energy back? I'm getting discouraged.

Love the pictures of the bear too cool!

Ruth so much progress can't wait to see it done.

The lake house purchase is making progress! We should be able to close by end of month! So excited and still stunned we did this!😃 I have been painting furniture to bring as there will be no new purchases until we decide to sell our current home.I do love repurposing older things so it is fun. My DH coaches the high school girls Varsity ball team and don't know how much longer he might want to do it.

Tomorrow pilates

Mary- those are some cool bear pics! I have never seen one that up close. I think I would be scared to death.

Sorry about the bee stings. I got stung last week too. Just once and it hurt!! I am allergic to yellow jackets so I was concerned but no reaction (just localized swelling) so it was probably a wasp. How can one little insect inflict so much pain

Today I did my LIVESTRONG program which included weight machines and a yoga class. Then I hopped in the pool and swam a half mile. Finished it off with some stretching in the hot tub.

We spent the evening watching the Olympics. Enjoyed watching swimming and gymnastics.

I can't take credit for being brave around black bears as they look a lot scarier than they really are. We've had our cabin for 8 years and I've learned a lot about them. They actually are shy creatures that want to be left alone and are quite easy to scare off - even just shouting at them will do it it most cases. They're also mostly vegetarian, preferring seeds, berries, twigs, and much to farmers' dismay, they like corn and other crops. Although they will eat some meat, it's mostly things like insects and carrion - they tend to not be raging hunters like grizzlies and polar bears. But that's not to say that you can treat black bears casually. You still need to respect them and their potential - as Cheryl said, those claws alone demand respect! I feel very lucky to be able to experience them - from behind the safety of our windows!

Thankfully it was a very uneventful MO visit yesterday. She's going to try to see if she can order the BCI genomic test to be done on my original tumor to gauge whether I'm at low or high risk for recurrence. I did my 5 years of Femara and have been off it for 3 years, but as we all know there are still unanswered questions about whether 10 years might be better. These new tests are amazing - so many things are available now that weren't around when I was dx 8 years ago - progress is really being made.

Making progress in the kitchen remodel........my assignment today was to make a couple runs to Menards, and stay out of the way!

Idid a Zumba class today with my two daughters. Ages 21 and 24. It was fun and very sweaty. When I had no idea what to do, I just kept moving till I caught on.

Hi All! Just a quick note as I'm ready to go to bed.

Ruth: I really like how your kitchen is progressing!

Ginger: these little insects really do create a lot of pain! Sounds like you caught on quickly in the zumba class.

Nats: Yea for uneventful MO visits!

Walked/ran this morning before the rain. Had a late night meeting to attend.

Thanks for letting me barge in.

Today is a travel day, so exercise will be going through 2 airports. And handling the heat.

Ooo Ruth - wow - the kitchen looks great. And I love how your big window just floods it with light. Kaption - welcome! And yes, travel these days definitely counts as exercise! Ginger - I did a Zumba class and that's pretty much what I did too - just kept moving even if I wasn't doing what everyone else was. Hsant - I'm impressed that you got out there in that kind of weather!

I was going to run this morning, but it was 79 degrees and super-humid at 5:30am (!), and I just couldn't make myself get out there. Instead, I hauled out the foam roller and did a good session with it and did a lot of stretching as well, so at least I did something. The weather is supposed to be even nastier this weekend in DC. We're going up to the cabin which is normally cooler, but even the forecast for up there is hot and humid. Yuk.

Ruth, your kitchen is looking great. Wonderland ouch, so sorry.

At the gym feeding the Fitbits and hoping for clear skies. I'm exhausted but sooo want to photograph the Perseid meteor shower tonight. I can sleep during PT tomorrow.

Scottie