Ten on Tuesday, and a Wave to Sian a Day Late

I’m joining in today with Ten on Tuesday, and I think this qualifies for Sian’s “Me on Monday” meme, though a day late.  The prompt seemed perfect: 10 Things You Did This Weekend. This weekend was a holiday weekend, and it seemed like one. The weather was lovely, and we made time for some special activities.

1. I started my weekend with a meeting with my personal trainer. Since we’ve returned from our winter travels, I’ve been great about going to spinning class and/or walking regularly, but I was not getting back to the weight room. A half hour review was all the motivation I needed. Went back yesterday as well.
2. We’ll be away again for part of June, and nearly all of July so I needed to get a head start on making cards for the upcoming birthdays and anniversaries, as well as several special events. I finished 14! Some of them will be forthcoming on blog posts.
3. We watched the Blue Angels fly over our house for three days during the Rochester Air Show. Almost (but not quite) got a great photo of them flying right over my head while I was walking home from the library.
4. Saturday we made our annual spring trip to the Ithaca Farmer’s Market (and a few other fun stops along the way). I bought some French Breakfast radishes, some green garlic, a loaf of Zatar pita bread, some curly parsley to plant at home, a cherry filled scone, and a gift for an upcoming birthday.

        5.  For the second year in a row, we managed to pick graduation weekend to go to Ithaca. The
             Cornell campus was busier than usual, and there were lots of families celebrating at
             The Boatyard where we had a wonderful lunch overlooking the inlet to Cayuga Lake.
        6.  Saturday night we had dinner with our good friends, ending it with a delicious piece of
             strawberry-rhubarb pie.
        7.  Sunday morning Tracy dropped me off in Canandaigua to join the Rochester Sketch Meet-up
             group at the pier on Canandaigua Lake to sketch the boat houses. It was a perfect day, sunny
             but not too warm with a lovely breeze coming off the lake. While I sketched, Tracy drove
             to Naples to visit the cemetery.

         8. When Tracy returned we went to lunch at the very best Mexican restaurant in the area,
              Rio Tomatlin. It was our first visit since they moved into a much larger (and nicer) place
              following a fire about a year ago. The food was, as always, outstanding, and it was nice
              enough to eat outside.

        9.  I finished the planting in my cutting garden, adding some new perennials and filling in
             with some zinnias, snapdragons, and dahlias. Some of them are budded already so maybe
             there will be some flowers on the table earlier than usual.

        10.  Unexpectedly, but delightfully, we had dinner with Matt, Betsy, Skylar, and Ella two nights
                in a row. Once at our house, and then at their’s. Here are the cuties all dressed up for the
                annual Memorial Day parade their neighborhood hosts every year.

I’m off to Buffalo tomorrow to meet Melissa and Robbie from Texas, so the fun doesn’t end here!