Walking is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside. Elizabeth von Arnim

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Monday, August 06, 2012

One Strawberry

Quite hot and humid out there this morning.  The temperature was 75 and the humidity was somewhere in the 90's and as you can imagine I was soaked by the time I got home.  Still it is great to be able to be out early in the morning and walking AND I do come home to a nice cool air conditioned house and a nice big glass of cold water : ) .
It had rained last night and looked like it would again but it never did while I was walking, though it would have been welcomed.
I walked around the lake and there were quite a few other people there as well.  Saw a few deer, the usual rabbits and that is about it.
My friend Lin is back in town and she called so we talked and walked 'together' for about 2 miles.
I walked 6.4 miles.
Sunrise 6:13
Sunset 8:13
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A while ago I mentioned that a coworker of Ken's brought in some strawberry plants and gave them away.  We got three plants and I planted them in a pot on the deck.  One plant died right away, one looked as if it was about to die and one looked so so.  Well I am happy to say that the two plants have survived and one plant produced one strawberry which I picked and ate yesterday.  I shared it with Ken.  It was only one and we only had a taste but what a taste it was.  So sweet, it was like candy. : )  Of course it deserved a picture. 
The first strawberry.
Ken holds it in the palm of his hand.
Maybe next year there will be lots of strawberries for us.

This morning I made a three bean salad which will be part of supper tonight and also made a loaf of bread.  It smelled so good that when it was done I cut two pieces and had them for lunch with butter and raspberry jam on them.  Yummy!
The rest of the afternoon I'll be doing a little cleaning, ironing and then reading some more of my book.

Hope you're having a great Monday.
Happyone
We have a choice every day regarding
the attitude we will embrace for that day.
~ Charles Swindoll

7 comments:

Vee said...

Oh this made me laugh because my daughter gave me a blueberry bush last summer. I planted it and it survived. Just two days ago, I ate the one and only little blueberry on it. It was a tasty little blueberry and I did NOT share. Ha!

Beth said...

That was really nice of you to share the lone strawberry. I do hope the plants give you lots more next year.

Your lunch looks so good, homemade bread and jam. Yumm!

Nellie said...

It sounds like you have had a super day!

We had some rain overnight, as well as a little shower this morning.

Laundry has kept me busy today, too.

Kerri Farley said...

Oh what a sweet little strawberry :)
LOVE that quote you chose too!!

Cheryl said...

I think it's kind of perfect that there was just one, to share. And that it was perfect.

Auntie sezzzzzz... said...

Precious!!!!!!!!

"Auntie"

Anonymous said...

Nothing tastier than freshly baked bread, butter and jam - (except for your lovely strawberry which looked just perfect)