38++ Weeks

Just wanted to take a minute to give thanks for the break in the heat up here in the 'Cuse.  While having our bedroom air conditioned has been like manna from Heaven, being cooped up in one room for days on end was starting to wear me down a bit.  Yesterday I was able to go for a walk in the afternoon for some vitamin D and then Jess and I took a stroll down to our corner convenience store - Sabastino's - where they are now selling soft serve - WITH SPRINKLES!  I can't walk very far these days as it is (without having to make a pit stop/rehydrate) so it was a very sweet little walk down to the corner and back.  The clouds were rolling in and it was a good thing we brought a big golf umbrella because just as we stepped back onto Fellows the sky cracked open upon us!  Nice to be safe and dry, licking ice cream cones, watching the storm develop from our lush front porch . . . Today is even cooler so I was able to go for a bit of a longer walk just now - thank you thank you for these walks!  I get to sniff the flowers, clear my head a bit, get a bit of exercise - all good stuff. 

Now that my ode to neighborhood walking is completed, what have we been up to for the past week?  Jess has been plugging away at the sun porch windows.  As we speak, all the weights and windows and bits of wood and paneling have been put back into place - today the focus is any last scraping, caulking, painting the trim.  Once that is done we can give the windows a quick paint touch up (they got a bit grimy/fingerprinty in the replacement process) and the glass a good cleaning.

After last week's pedicure was so lovely (Bday present from Jess - wanted to use it when I was UBER-pregnant, which is right about now) I decided to treat myself to a manicure and a haircut on Tuesday!  Throw in a shower earlier that morning and it was a BIG day for Caitlin's personal grooming ;)  You can see some pics of that decadence here  . . . also pics of me in the kidde pool staying cool on Tuesday - great idea Momma Lo!

Weds afternoon we fled Syracuse for the night on a little "Baby Moon" to Skaneateles (skinny-ATlas), NY.  It's a small, cute weekend getaway town - only 35min from our door - on beautiful Skaneateles lake.  We stayed at a B&B (the Hummingbird House) and were even able to meet up with some friends of ours who live in nearby Auburn - thanks Walt and Liz for squiring us about town!  Though the heat was still pretty bad, it was nice to get away for a bit and explore a new (to us) finger lake town and eat lots of good food in the process :)


Not sure what we've got on the burner for this weekend - more house work I think.  Hopefully Jess will be able to get out to the golf course while the weather is so nice. . .



Love to you all!