Reluctant Model

Okay, yes, I know it is mean to make little Sporty Spice model my yoyo shirt craft project of last weekend since he is a boy. I wouldn't make him wear it to school or anything! I just needed a model. And this one turned out to be especially effective as I wanted to point out that I BOUGHT a women's size LARGE at Target to make this shirt and after it shrunk...it fit a five year old boy. Back to the drawing board. Good concept though.

We Have The Fever....Tour De France Fever

For the first time in a few years, I am doing my darndest to follow this year's Tour De France in the way it should properly be followed. At 5am on versus tv, for three weeks. The voices of Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwin have always defined summer at our house. The scenery is so stunning, and the race exciting. Brings back SO many memories of our "Trip of a Lifetime" in 2001 where the Mister and I went on a Breaking Away Bicycle Tour to follow the Tour, ride many of the mountain stages, and be on the Champs Elysees to see Lance Armstrong win his third tour. We waited for the tour to pass through atop Luz Ardiden, we rode the Tourmalet and Hautacam in one day, we saw a time trial, we caught feed bags in a feed zone, we got tossed out of restricted areas by Lance's bodyguard, we chatted with Lance's mechanic, we brought a pound of Peet's coffee and managed to deliver it directly into George Hincapie's hands, we came home and saw ourselves on the ESPN coverage.

A once in a lifetime trip, but watching on tv is a lot less exhausting!

....and in the craft room...

And the week sans-kid was not without a bit of scrapbooking. I realize that the crafty part of Craftytriathlete has been less than obvious lately.

Meanwhile, in the garden.....

With Sporty Spice at Grandma and Grandpa's the week after the clinic, I got finally got to a bit of yard work between workouts! I love these hanging cone planters! And I got six of em at a Tuesday Mornings Store for cheap. And I am so proud of my first rose that I am putting up a picture. The gardening here at our new house is a whole different ball game with the hotter temperatures.

Also spotted in the garden....just outside the little house where my relocated feral cats live (who I'm sure are all hiding inside after seeing these!). Can you see the antlers on these three???

It only took us a year to hang these....

We've been in the new house just over a year now. And we hung our first pictures last week. Again, sad.

Happy Belated Fourth

I guess it doesn't matter how late I am in posting our holiday happenings, as I only have two followers....

We managed to do a little bit of Independence Day celebrating, in Arnold for the weekend. We missed the parade (who has a parade on the THIRD?). Got in a beautiful road ride up to Lake Alpine and back and a 3 and a half hour trail run to wrap up the last of 3 loooong training weeks. Came home the evening of the Fourth, and the Mister and Sporty headed out up our hill to look for fireworks to no avail. They came home, flipped on the big screen, and watched the ones over the capital. Sad.

Look What the Cat Drug In

Last weekend, as I headed out for my long run, already feeling a bit pro-crastinate-y, I fell victim to a yard sale just up the street. I actually ran back home and got the car and some money for these...
I was positively smitten with these little metal children's kitchen appliances! Of course the best part is the perfect pink of the little fridge (I must find some itty bitty magnets), but, get this...the stove/oven...has a cord and plugs in! Now I ask you, in what century, did we allow children to play with miniature working oven burners where they could heat up their own cups of tea?!?!? Yikes!