This and That, Days Turn Into Weeks

Made some headway with my scarf.  I finished the heather section and started a gray section which will be the middle.  This has been layed aside and I've not knitted in almost a month, which is a bit odd for me; but for some reason that's just the way my time has worked out.  Can't believe how much time has lapsed since my last post.  Days just seem to blend into weeks for too quickly these days.

Yes, another WWII book, by Pam Jenoff. Sadie Gault age 18 lives in the Krakow Ghetto with her parents, until The Nazi's decide it's not cruel enough to live in the Ghetta and liquidates the ghetto's forcing people to flee, to hide if possible. But, where?  She and her family lived in the tunnels/sewers under the city.  An unlikely friendship blossoms above and below the ground.  LOVED this book and highly recommend it.

A very different topic for me.  This book, The Four Winds takes place in Texas back in 1921 and takes you from a country with abundance and happy lives to 1934 during The Depression.  A young woman coming of age when women had no choice in the lives.  They were expected to be married and race children, or be a spinter and live unhappy lives.  Love, betrayal, hardship and how hard people worked to stay alive are all strong emotions in this book.  Add it to your list.  We all know about the dust bowl, but maybe we really didn't know how bad, how desparate this time in history was.

The Paris Wife is an historical fiction complied through letters and diaries of Hadley Richardson, the first of 4 wives Ernest Hemingway had.  I must say reading this book made me think entirely different about him, as a man.  He was despictable, in my opinion.  He was a womanizer, and a user.  But, at times I was furious with is wife for enabling his horrific behavior.  Read it and let me know what you think.  I decided he's in a category like Frank Lloyd Wright.  Two famous people that got respect they did NOT deserve.  Neither was a good man, neither treated friends or family well.  And both were takers and self absorbed.

May was a better month for me for exercising than April.

I upped my planks from 7 to 13 (4 rounds of 45 seconds with 13 sconds of rest between).  AND I managed to do side planks (2 x 20 with 6 seconds of rest between) in May, compared to zero in April.

Mowed 5 times vs 3 in April.

I added high steps (knees to chest) 60 repeats 4 x during May.

I found an abd workout through Silver Sneakers that connects to Burnalong and did that twice in the last week of month.

Cardio Mix through Silver Sneakers gives me quite a work out for 45 minutes, and managed it 4 times during the last 2 wks of the month.  I also did a Yoga Pilates Infusion class once the last week of the month.

Steps (which is both going for a walk, mowing, up and down steps for laundry and just all around what you do in a day.  April was 0 actual walks, but 97.28 miles for the month, while June I recorded 5 actual walks and 104.94 miles for the month.

I was out of town for the first week in June, so we'll have to see how that impacts my stats for the month.  Fingers crossed I can continue to increase my numbers.