Friday Thoughts #17
We went hiking in the Glasshouse Mountains last weekend. We started with a steep but concreted walk up to a lookout. I forget what this one was called, but the view was pretty good.
Next we headed to Mount Tibrogargan. We started on the circuit walk, then decided to give the peak trail a go. There were a lot of warnings at the turnoff. The first section is steep, rocky steps, but then it changed to climbing. I decided to pull the pin here. I wasn’t feeling like challenging my fear of heights.
Two of our party continued while the rest continued the circuit walk. It soon started raining pretty heavily. Back at the car, we were pretty soaked, and we all decided to skip our final planned hike and head to a craft brewery for a drink and some lunch.
Yesterday I went to the main beach to get some shots of our friend surfing. It was an excellent opportunity to get some practice at some action shots. Unfortunately, the sun comes in from the ocean all day because it is a north-facing beach, which makes the light tricky.
My attempts to get into more of a routine have fallen a bit by the wayside this week. I have been running four times a week, taking pilates reformer class Wednesdays and getting the cooking, washing and paid work done, but my other habits have been a bit hit and miss. Our daughter is coming up for a holiday tomorrow. So that won’t help the situation, plus we have a Victorian public holiday next Monday. I am looking forward to having our daughter here. We’ve planned a few activities and meals out,
Fill me in on how your week’s gone or any fun weekend plans in the comments.
10 Comments
Elisabeth
That’s a great surfing picture!
Our weekend. Hmmm. My daughter has a dress rehearsal for her play and I have all sorts of odd jobs to get done around the house. Church. Taking my husband to the airport as he’s heading to Las Vegas for a conference. It will be busy, but hopefully relatively relaxing, too?
Melissa
That sounds like a good weekend. I can’t believe you drive your husband to the airport for his work trips. I think I pulled the stopper on that when I had my first child… although flights from here to overseas that he was on often required a pre-dawn drop-off. You are dedicated!
Elisabeth
I don’t always drive him; he takes a hired car if it’s early/late, but we can claim mileage, so it’s actually a “good deal” and I needed to go to IKEA (10 minutes from the airport), so it made sense to do both things at once. I’d say I drive him 60-70% of the time, but not after dark – had a BAD snowstorm experience and vowed never again – and never early, early in the morning.
Plus, I like to have the extra time with him and I actually think it’s easier on the kids to transition to him leaving like this. There is a sense of closure seeing him walk through the airport doors that they just don’t get if he walks out the door and into a taxi?
Melissa
THat all makes sense. Hubby’s flights would generally be really early in the morning so the kids would say goodnight and he’d be gone the next morning. Him being away so often never seemed to bother the kids much, of course they were always very excited to see him when he got home.
Daria
I enjoyed reading about your Noosa trip! My week… Was good. Tons of smoke in New Jersey b/c of wildfires in Canada (on Wednesday it was especially bad), my husband was away so I was solo parenting and that was challenging at times but not soul-crushing. Balanced and harmonious weekend: some activity but also white space for body and mind.
Melissa
I saw some pictures of the smoke. It looked awful. We had a bit of that in the summer of 2019-2020 here and it was not pleasant.
Jenny
I love all the photos, including the surfing pic. That hike does look pretty intense! I don’t have a fear of heights so I would have continued up.
If you’re running 4x a week and doing Pilates, I would say you’re doing great. I don’t know what habits you feel are falling by the wayside, but I hope you felt like it all balanced out while your daughter was there!
Melissa
I have kept up my running habits while here but I’ve been trying to build in some better routines which haven’t really stuck. I’m considering a different approach as that is not really working for me.
San
Great pictures. Action shots can be hard.
Melissa
Thanks San. I’m fortunate that my camera has a sport mode, the only problem is to sort through all the photos taken in a single burst.