A mini stroll on the deck early Wednesday

Wednesday morning was cool and bright, and the plants, indoors and out, like it.

Catch the monarch butterfly up there?

Lovely second blossom on the orchid.

Then a walk down to the pond, disturbing frogs 

The rabbit is still there, overtaken by foliage 

Home again to online chair yoga AARP style. 

It went about fifty minutes and I shortened the poses here and there, a bit long for my stamina. She addressed practically every body part! It was pretty good. I modified some of the warrior poses, because of a bit of sciatic tenderness. But Wednesday I definitely got back to moving after no walk Tuesday.

Later afternoon tea and drawing on the deck. 

Curry leaf plant in front of Japanese maple, groundcover.

Happy day, everyone, move it! Or don't. It's your body!

AARP at it again, chair yoga, Misfits

After an email invitation, I just signed up for a session of online chair yoga, in a couple of weeks

I do like being grouped with desk workers, I feel less decrepit.

 Meanwhile I thought I'd better get a bit of training before I tackle an hour long session. So I tracked down my favorite fitness duo, mother and daughter, for a fifteen minute session.

they're great because the trainer daughter shows wonderful form and her mother shows the nearest most older people can get, very encouraging to those of us who are quite stiff.

This was a good idea, showing me I need to improve my stamina, since the fifteen minutes were quite taxing, but will be less so each day. At least that's the idea.

This is going into my morning rotation. I still do a couple of eight pieces of silk, and shoulder exercises just to keep functional. And walking. Gentle everything is the mantra at this point. This is a yoga-brag-free zone.

And it's a mending time, the invisible kind this time, repairing, again, the mock turtle neckline of this favorite Land's End cotton sweater

It's the seam joining the neck to the body that gets worn out, don't we all.

Bought in a garage sale about thirty years ago and still worth repairing, along with the other two sweaters long since converted into jackets. I didn't do fancy visible work because I like the simplicity of this sweater.

I put together a seasoned flour mix to coat, enrobe (maybe that's just for chocolate) the cod we all snorted about last week 

I ground enough coriander seeds for a small container, then in the midst of this 

Misfits arrived 

Change of pace, here comes coffee so I can have an occasional cafe au lait, since I can't seem to get cocoa at the moment.

The red onions are to pickle for a thing next week.

And I can't bear to use valuable dyeing material for stock. So it's in the freezer for the next time I feel like dyeing.

The scallions are to plant the root ends and see if I can get a homegrown supply. The rest is chopped and frozen, to just eat.

This was a small order with a lot of plans. The Little Order That Could.

Happy day everyone, I do all the things so you don't have to.