Beautiful weather and the Plant Sale

Friday was the usual hard workout. Sailed through it and spent most of the afternoon setting up for the plant sale. Seemed funny that I was not going to have a booth this fall but I was not alone. Saturday was the sale. Started slow but picked up and stayed busy most of the morning. We did not have nearly the selection of plants as years past but we did fair for the heat and drought. Not sure of the total sales but maybe half of past sales. One thing I do know is it was much easier to carry plants to folks cars across the parking lot. It was good to be my my gardening friends and enjoy the start to fall. Anything beats the heat of the past several months.

It has been a while since I was a smoker and not working out. So glad I made those changes.

Workouts and stress

Yesterday we had our Consult visit with the Dr. It was better news than we expected, Fran will still have a stent put in but less complication than first thought. That is great news and we both are ready for Oct. 4 so we can put this behind us. She will stay one night and be released on her Birthday.
Needless to say this has caused stress. Hard workout have really helped me with this. Kris has really upped the "Wall" and the Pump is still a real challenge. Heidi taped the Pump session for her recertification as an instructor. Wednesday I really pushed in both exercise programs. Very sore today but the exercise does improve sleeping, or should.
May go in for a little work today. Plant sale Saturday, not sure about the turnout or number of members with much to sell. The heat and drought has really taken a toll on most of our gardens. Demo Garden still looks good.

RAIN !!! Wonderful cooling rain.

Saturday was cloudy and misty most of the day which cooled us off a bit. Sunday more of the same but very little rain. Sunday night it started to really rain and rain it did most of the night. This morning the cool damp air was so refreshing almost like the start of fall. A little more than a inch of rain for most of East Texas.
Workouts were cut a bit short this morning as I had a Scarecrow Trail meeting. I did get "my" routine and Kris's Wall. I worked it hard and was tired after the combined hour of work.
Scarecrow Trail is coming along. This is such a fun event and really got lots in the community out. I hope it will be good again this year. The Plant Sale is this Saturday. I am not thinking that many will have much to sell. The heat and drought has killed or severely stunted most of the things I would usually pot up to sell. I do not look for this to be a big successful fund raiser.

Rain, wow what the rain did for the attitude of many.

Finished out the week

I did a "my routine" on Thursday and the the biggy today. The Wall is getting more challenging each week. I think Kris wants us to struggle to get to the Pump class. He has said that if you did his workout you would not need the hour of Pump. Never the less, many of us do both. I was surprised that Frank back down form the Pump today. I was tempted but struggled through it but no additional weight on the bar.
Maybe I am catching up with Frank after all.


Fran will have a Dr. appointment next Wednesday to see when surgery will be scheduled. Concerned and ready for this to be behind us.

Catch up time

With the doctor appointments for Fran, lots of things get put on hold.
The temps shot back up and the wildfires continue. Seems like all of east Texas is burning. Many evacuations and even school closings due to the fires. The heat, drought and now winds have us in a major fire warning situation. Last night for a very short time it rained, not much but it did rain. This is the first in so long I can not even remember.
Workouts have been a bit hit and miss. Last Friday 9/9, we did not have Body Pump but another coach did some cardio and yoga. Not nearly as hard as the pump but using different muscles did have me sore. Missed the workouts on Monday as we were in Tyler for Fran's testing at the hospital. This lasted all day. Made my classes yesterday, both of them. Kris has raised the bar in the Express class. This is almost enough of a workout by itself. Heidi was back after some training on the new Body Pump exercises. This will begin soon. The present one is still a challenge for me. Really hard if you miss a session or two.
Trying to hang in there.
Plant sale coming up in 2 weeks. I have nothing but a few dogwood trees and they even look bad. So much for my sales this year.
My friend Rodney is staying with his exercise routine. Good to see him and see his progress.

Texas burns

Finally the temps of 100 plus days ended yesterday. The tropical storm Lee brought wind but no rain. This strong wind and extra dry conditions makes Texas ripe for fires. The air is so cool this morning with 50's tonight but the smell of fire is also present. The local news is full of the many fires in the area. Some schools are closed and many areas evacuated. These are scary times. No rain fore casted for the next 10 days. I did see more trees down or damaged from the drought and high winds. This will only make more firewood.
Monitoring Fran's BP several times a day and Dr. appointments will have me miss some of the routine M-W-F workouts. I did make it yesterday and worked hard. I have started doing lunges at home to try to improve in this area. I will miss Wednesday with appointments but hope to get answers to why the BP is so inconsistent through out the day. There are lots of questions to be answered hopefully soon.