This weekend in my garden

Hello, blog friends!

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Happy dang Monday to ya'! It was a wonderful weekend around here and felt much too short for my liking. I took a lot of photos, but most of them are for future blog posts, so today I give you garden photos.

August is probably my least favorite month in Arizona. We are tired of the heat, and my garden is over it too. You can tell by these sunflower photos that the heat is taking its toll.

And it's apparent when looking at my garden that I have been a busy girl with little time to tend to things outside. Busy schedule plus avoiding being out in the heat...it happens every August.

 

My first couple of classes for yoga teacher training were awesome! I'll attend classes every Thursday and Friday evenings through the end of the year, and I know I'll get in sync with my new schedule as the weeks progress, but this week I was off. It's a challenge to get home at 10:00 p.m. and then try to go right to sleep - my head was still spinning, absorbing all the great information and words of wisdom from my teachers.

It's typical for me to want to be organized during times of transition, so I spent Saturday in my craft room cleaning and purging some things. I needed to make room for the new stack of yoga books, and just feel like things were in order.

 

Saturday afternoon I looked outside and noticed sunlight on this year's blood orange crop, so I grabbed my camera and braved the heat. The results are photos in this blog post.

 

Let's see...what else...

I was busy in the kitchen this weekend. I've been seeing roasted garbanzo beans on Pinterest and finally tried them this weekend. They are just ok - a weird little snack that I would eat if I was starving, but not something I'd go for if there were other options! Kind of disappointing like roasted cauliflower was. Lesson: don't believe everything you see on Pinterest.

I made a batch of homemade granola that turned out fairly well - it will be good on yogurt this week. And! I made a batch of crazy delicious brownies yesterday afternoon. {Thanks for the recipe, Sue!}

Oh - and there was a scorpion in our silverware drawer. EEK! {Doug saved me.}

Carrie and I went to a yin/restorative yoga class yesterday afternoon that was really nice. As part of my teacher training I must attend a certain number of yoga classes and journal about them afterwards. I was much more mindful about postures that were practiced and thinking about remembering them for journaling later. It feels like every little part of my personal yoga practice has shifted. I'm glad about it, but my head doesn't seem fully wrapped around the whole thing yet. I'll get there!

Lucky, the dog.

And before you know it, Monday morning rolls around and it's time to work our way toward a new weekend. This is one of those Monday mornings that I wish with all my might was actually a Sunday morning, but what are you gonna' do? Time stands still for no one, my friends.

 

Shifting gears into corporate mode and wishing you all a happy week ahead!

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