Outdoors

If you pay any attention to my blog, you know that we moved into our forever home in January 2020. The only positive thing that seems to have happened this year. I've always been an outdoor person, preferring to be outside rather than in when weather permits.

Our new home has a trail system right out the "back door" and we have spent a lot of time utilizing it throughout this whole Covid Calamity. At least they haven't taken the outdoors away from us.

I finally got a pic of the outside of our home, after we spruced it up a bit. When we bought it, the bushes in front were out of control and there were many bald patches in the front yard. It still needs more TLC, but it will be a work in progress....

It's apparent the previous owners never gave the yard much love, so Toby and I started by building a little flower bed around the otherwise drab looking shed, which they had made the focal point of the yard...

Here it is with a beautiful sunset setting behind it the other night...

This picture does not do it justice, but every morning the sun shines through the little colored panes in the window and cast a colorful glow into the living area....

It's wildflower season here in Central Texas and the wildflowers have been showing off  beautifully this year...

Lake Pflugerville finally reopened the other day, so me and Skye took a hike around the three mile loop around the lake. It really is a beautiful hike, but it was also blazing hot as there is not much shade on the trail. And we are not "permitted" to swim there yet per whoever is making up the stupid rules we are forced to adhere to these days. I'm a rebel though, and sat down on one of the forbidden benches and took some beautiful pictures of the lake...

 

Well, that's all for now folks. This is about as interesting as it gets these days.

Colorful Covid

Since moving to Pflugerville and amidst the pandemic, we have not traveled much out of a 3 mile radius from home in the past couple of months.

Yesterday me and Toby decided to venture downtown Austin to see what it looks like as a ghost town. Street artist had taken to giving it an even more colorful flare than what it already has. I hope they will keep some of this art when everything gets back to "normal"....

Deserted Downtown

 

Passing Time Through The Pandemic

Not much has changed for us during the COVID Pandemic...oh, other than NOBODY in my family has a job right now. I'll refrain from giving my opinions on how senselessly this whole thing has been handled and move on with the post at hand.

Me and Toby have taken full advantage of our local hiking trails and have utilized our bikes more than ever in the past month. Wildflower season has been beautiful and I love the flowing creek that runs through the trail system. It's been the perfect form of ecotherapy for me.

I thought this was a cool looking little church we passed by on one of our evening walks through downtown...

There's an old historical church across the street from our neighborhood, it's really cool and I absolutely love hearing the bells toll on Sunday mornings....

Bo loves our new home just as much as we do because he gets to go walking on the trails for his morning walks now, and the bonus is getting to dip into the creek to cool off....

This is how Skye spent her 19th birthday this year. It was really not that much fun, but we made the best of it....

Me and Toby made us a mini date day by ending our bike ride with a refreshing Sonic drink. It's really cool because there's a bench off the trail that's right across from the Sonic where we enjoyed our drinks..

In true grandma style, I'll leave this post with a few of my favorite grand baby pics....