Flowers, Cookies, And Dunes...

Well, get ready for another super boring blog post..  My African Violet keeps getting more flowers on it! 😁 It has more buds, too.

And, I made cookies. 😱 Oatmeal Raisin. I hadn't made those in a long time. I know why, they never turn out good. I tried a thing I saw somewhere, where you form the cookie dough into a tall ?? tower? instead of a ball. Then it will bake up thicker. I don't even know where I saw it, I just spent a half an hour looking.. I don't know how to describe it either. It did help a little. The cookies were just flattening out and getting almost burnt before that.  

~Anyway~

My youngest son and I went to a dune state park last Saturday. I almost didn't want to go. It's two hours away. And two hours back...)  And I knew it would be a lot of walking...  But, I brought a crochet project and a book to read. And I wore my tennis shoes. 😝 These are just a couple/few of the pictures I took. The trail with a view of the lake.

The dunes at the top. I wasn't going to go down. It wasn't super far, but... It's sandy and hard to walk in. And I knew coming back up would be even 40 times harder than going down. 

But I went down. 👀 Not for the view... My son had gone down with Elsie. And I was getting nervous standing up there by myself waiting. (Like going down on the beach waiting would be any different...? I don't know..)  If you can see a black spot down the beach by the water, that's about where he was. Then he disappeared and I started to walk back to go up.  Well I couldn't remember which trail up to go on to get back to where we were! I started to panic. I was walking in the sand which was hard enough. Then I walked back ("I know I didn't go this way that far").  Ugh, I am losing my mind. Then I remembered I took a picture of some logs that were laying on the dune..

This is the picture. See? Taking pictures of everything does help! OMG. I am losing my mind. I was bad before chemo...   Anyway, I saw the logs and went back over to that trail and started to walk up. Just then I saw Eon walking down the trail. ?? He had walked in a big circle, back up another trail and over to the trail we were on. Kid has no fear. (He didn't have his phone with him, even though I told him he should bring it-and I didn't want to get separated in the first place because of that.)  So, it was all good in the end. I just about died going back up the dunes, though. I am still not back to normal/in shape from my surgery. 😟

I'm glad I went, though. We went into town nearby and walked along another (small) lake, and went to a Farmer's Market. We got "natural" treats for the dogs, and Eon got some goat soap (there was a goat there, too)

I think she said it's a Nubian goat? That has to be a lot of work. Not only going to the Farmer's Market and setting up your stall, but bringing a big fence and straw ? hay? (I don't know what goats eat), and your goat! 😐  

We got some lunch (even though it was 3 pm, we hadn't eaten though..) at a food truck, too. 

I finished the crochet project I brought, too. (Four hours of driving, I would guess...) It was just a hat. 

~Well that's all for now~