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The flowers that my son brought me yesterday for my birthday celebration are still smiling at me today. Such happy flowers – gerbera daisies, roses, carnations, and more.
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I had my windows open for a while this morning. It was lovely. I kept my eye on my air pollution website and closed everything up when the gauge went into the ‘unhealthy’ zone and turned on my air filters and my a/c and fan. It’s much easier to cool off here than it is to warm up!
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(This is the older tote.)
One of the handmade inner bags.
This is the other inner bag. These keep everything from being on the bottom of my carrier for me to have to route through to find things.
I washed my newer tote/carrier in my bucket in the sink this morning. I also washed the little bags that go inside it. All are out on my balcony drying now. I transferred everything to the crocheted bag I had washed several months ago (Pictured) , so everything is cleaned out and organized now. When the carrier and bags I washed dry (it may take a day or two) I’ll put them into plastic bags and put them in my closet to wait for the next switch.
I’m trying to take good care of these because the ladies who made them by hand take pride in their work and I want them to last as long as possible. I turn everything inside out when I put them on the drying rack on my balcony so any fading from the sun will be kept to a minimum.
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I have switched my afternoon exercise sessions to the morning because I am making far too many excuses for skipping the sessions in the afternoons. Yesterday I started by doing my old lady yoga stretches mid morning. I felt good about that all day, feeling I was doing something good for myself and I felt good about not procrastinating or being a sloth. Today I did my exercises with water bottles at 9:00. I did a good workout, so I’m patting myself on the head a bit that I know myself well enough to realize how lazy I am and that I needed to change my focus and schedule to get around that.
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I wish you a happy day.
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i just woke up wondering about the old lady stretches and if I might find examples of some on YouTube! And here you have written about some and included pictures! We are sure on the same wavelength, Linda! Ha!
I also love the sloth and the flowers. Bravo! Oh, and yes, I hear you about washing the totes and turning them inside out to dry. Yay you!
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I don’t have any pictures. I got what I’m doing from a seniors dvd by Cat Kabira. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn6fmkYNF9k. She stresses that you try doing each stress, but don’t obsess over getting it perfect or anything. If you stretch and then breathe into it, relaxing as much as you can, that’s what’s important. I hope you find it interesting and helpful. Thanks for your kind words. The totes and bags are still drying…
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That’s awesome, Linda! I will do some based on the video! I want to change my slothful ways.
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I’m glad you’re going to try it. She is very encouraging, and got me over my feeling unable to even try any yoga moves. She does NOT ask you to fold yourself into a paper airplane and fly out the window.
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Happy Birthday! 😀
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Thanks very much, Debra. I had such a wonderful one this year, and I’m SO grateful to be here!
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