Planting flowers..

I'm up at the lake and spent the day planting flowers. My hubby is very outdoorsy and was doing alot of landscaping too. And then there is the brown lab, my other helper. Although helping really isn't her main goal, getting her face into the stream of the hose water is her really her only goal. Into any water really. Dirty. Swampy. Muddy, it doesn't matter to her, if it's water, she wants to be one with it. LOL. She's a great dog.

I'm not sure how this post will turn out, I've never added multiple pictures before. But you can see my flower bed behind Meg, the brown lab in this picture. Hubby helped me plant some of the ones in the center and back because my port (lapband access site) started hurting. I guess bending over too long and straining to dig in the hard soil started to bother it. So hubby dug about the last 10 holes for me. I thought that was nice of him to offer to help me.

Here she is with her face wet.
Geraniums! I am not much of a flower person, so I tried to pick easy things to grow! I went with nice easy flowers to grow: Impatiens, Pansies, Petunia's and Geraniums. I saw some Verbena that was pretty and I bought it but I haven't planted it yet as I don't know how big it grows, I'll have to look into it a bit more. I always thought Verbena was just the flowers that grow on a Lime tree, LOL. You always see fragrances like Lemon or Lime Verbena mentioned together. See? what do I know about flowers?

This is one of the Gerbera Daisies I got for Mother's Day. I love them!

Hubby built me some flower beds, the greenery in the middle is a Hydrangea we've relocated from home up to the Lake. I hope it likes it up here. Weight stayed the same this week. I'm not upset, that seems to be my pattern. Lose a few.. then plateau a few weeks.. then lose again. I am at 164. AND.. I am no longer obese. Still overweight.. but still working on it.. I was wearing shorts the other day and hubby came in and said, "are you wearing my shorts" I didn't know why he would ask such a thing and then after I said no he said, " well then, it looks like you need some new shorts!" They were big on me, looked pretty ridiculous apparently. So I went to Kohl's and hit some great deals. And I got into a 12 in one of the brands. Still a 14 in the others. But I was so happy to be in those 12's.. I bought one in each color they had.. LOL!
Okay.. hubby is wanting me to get off of here so I can get dinner going. See yaaaaaaa.

Feeling Fantastic

I saw my Band Doctor today for a check-up. He says I'm doing great... I've lost 60% of the weight I need to lose to get to my goal weight. I weigh 164.5. I'm trying again with the whole 5K/podrunner thing. I'm on week 2 of consistent exercise. And I have to say, I really feel great. As hard as running on the treadmill is, I am starting to 'get' why people do it. I feel such a sense of accomplishment when I'm done. And this time I have a partner doing the couch to 5k program with me. I think that's really helped too. So if you are reading dear 5K-Lapband-friend, Thanks!

In other news.. my daughter was supposed to go on a school trip to Washington DC next week. And now, because of a swine flu outbreak at our middle school, it looks like they may cancel it. But the stupid thing is, they aren't planning to close the school, just cancel the 8th graders trip. They've been planning this trip for 2 years.. I've been paying for it for the last year and a half($800..ouch) and now they may not get to go. What a bummer.
Have a safe Holiday Weekend...