Tolentreasures

No blogging. Where did the time go? Painting. Trying to rid my house of black ants. Some funky painting. Another battle with the ants. Some funky stitching also. Another ant battle. Some of the weapons of the war. The last of the bunnies. And a few carrots. Die, you stupid ants. A different battle... Several days of the flu. and a little more stitching. Some cleaning. I know, maybe if I would do more of that I would not have the ants. A wonderful surprise My girls took me to see Mamma Mia for an early birthday present. It was great! Some more ant battles. The first motorcycle ride of the year. Nightmares about ants. Spring early morning walking with a fun friend. We walk before 6 AM with flashlights and talk and laugh!  What fun! JWS had a battle with the flu. I fought some more ants. Some rearranging of furniture. And the ants. I finally broke down and went to the hardware store today to buy ant spray. I am not a huge spray chemical lover, but I could not take it...

What a varied weekend that we had! Friday night we rested...we both needed that. I am working on another t-shirt rug, this one to go in my entryway and I have enough t-shirt yarn cut to do a bathroom rug for our bathroom....which would lead into the 5K story of the post. John has lost close to 70 pound since the first of the year. He has really worked hard at it and has been so diligent with it. He has exercised and eaten right and done it the right way. He has had this thought to run the local 5k in his mind for at least 10 years. He started to train for it this spring ( I trained with him for about 1 mile and realized it was not for me) and after having some knee problems did not keep up the training the last month, however, Friday night as I noticed he was loading up on carbs, I kind of figured that he was going to try it. Saturday AM he was up and circling and ready to go. I think he arrived at the site ahead of the organizers of the event. I had big plans to stay at hom...