Since we've recently been having beautiful weather on the weekends, I've decided to start going to bed earlier (for us), meaning going to bed at the same time as we normally do during the work week. That allows me to get the best of both worlds: the 8 hours of sleep I've been craving all week, AND waking up at an earlier, more respectable, SUNNIER hour. My plan was thwarted last night by wild urges to do the horizontal mambo. My head hit the pillow at 1h30am, but my eyes only opened at 11h30am! I was alone in bed, I never heard Steph, Loki & Chanel leave the room, and my plan to sleep with the curtains open to be awoken by sunlight obviously didn't work. I guess I needed it!
I got up, put my hair up in a messy bun, put on a short strapless girly summer dress, slathered sunscreen on, grabbed my sunglasses, and went to loung on the deck, in the sun, reading Saffron Skies. Steph eventually came outside for a few minutes and brought me a coffee in a travel mug, to keep the bugs out. How sweet! I stayed there in my lounge chair on the deck, which I totally adore, all afternoon. I was reading slowly, because I kept looking away from the book everytime a hummingbird came to eat some of the sweet nectar that I put out for them, or whenever a bird or a squirrel approached the bird feeder, or when they went for the bird bath. I also look at butterflies, puffy clouds, leaves rustling in the wind, and I daydream. Sometimes I read the same paragraph three times before really absorbing it. But I like it this way.
Around four, we went for a Costco run. Costco was packed, there was a line up at the propane station, but it's kinda worth it. BBQ propane tank refills there are 11$ and they're 20-25$ everywhere else that we've been to! I got some CHERRIES!!! Remember my cherry addiction? I got huge strawberries, fresh blueberries, three different kinds of cheeses... you know how it is when you go to Costco for a couple of things, right? 300$ later... We came home and had a really delicious BBQ together, en tête-à-tête, me, Steph, and Bill Maher. hehe.
Now I'm sitting here listening to Ella Fitzgerald and working away at a strawberry and rhubarb piece of pie from the big Costco pie. I swear, it didn't look nearly as humongous at Costco as it does sitting on my kitchen counter!
I love slow, sunny Saturday :)
Oh and BTW, the thing yesterday went well, I think. It lasted an hour and I walked out with huge armpit sweat rings. They're supposed to let me know next week! :)
I don't know what's going on...I've been checking your blog every day...wondering why you weren't updating and then *poof*...like 6 posts showed up today!
I'm jealous you have hummingbirds. I have a feeder and filled it this year but the wind just blew the nectar out and it puddled on the sidewalk and drew ants. :( I still have it hanging up but the hummingbirds will never visit if it's empty.
LOL okay that's kinda funny!! hehe
Do you make your own nectar or do you buy the bottled stuff to dilute? I find that I have WAY more luck with the bottled stuff, there must be hummingbird crack in there! There's a hummingbird every 5 minutes, and sometimes 2 at a time!
LOVE Saffron Skies. Lesley Lokko is my favorite author, and I've read everything from her I can get my hands on. I hope you are enjoying it!
I did like it! And I picked it especially after reading something about it on your blog :)
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