Vacation Over…. for now!

I had a nice 10 days out in the middle of no where. Unfortunately I am still sick with that cold that I came down with 2 weeks ago. My sinuses and lungs are infected and so I’m still very stuffed up and coughing a lot. There were a couple of times I felt like I was getting a cold all over again as I was out of sorts a couple of days in the last 10.  Achy and low energy. My body is having a tough time fighting this and I have also broken out with cold sores. When I go down, I go down hard. The only thing that I can think of that put me this low (other than the cold) is because I had stopped exercising about a week before I got sick. Doesn’t make sense to me but it is what it is….

Now I’ve just got to focus on eating right, exercising and getting enough sleep to try to get my body back in perfect health. I think a visit to the doctor is going to have to happen this week as I don’t know of any natural way to clear up sinus infections and if I don’t get on some antibiotics soon, I will have this for another 3 weeks. It’s hard to exercise when you can’t breath and when you do, you just cough.

Here are some pictures from my week:

  This is where I lived for 10 days. There is no service at this campsite so we relied on what the trailer could hold. We were fortunate to almost have the entire lower section of the campground to ourselves once the weekend was over.






This is Kiwi, she is about 4 months old and is a Chesapeake Bay Retriever. She is a very lovely girl and her and Katie are best friends now.  She belongs to Mr. Sandra’s oldest son who came out the first Friday and stayed with us for 4 days. Along with him came his fiancé from Japan and her father who is visiting Canada right now. He stayed in the trailer with us. His English was Ok as long as you spoke fairly slowly. He loved it there and took tons of pictures.

She is pretty much the same size as Katie. We had them tied along ropes between the trees and they could just touch and play. They could run back and forth along the ropes on pulley’s. They had fun.







When there was no one around the campground, I left her off her leash. She was such a good dog. I was very impressed. She barked a few people and dogs but generally just ignored folks. It has been a challenge for us/her to get her used to people.




 

Just a few feet from our campsite was this view. It is such lovely country I live in.  The below picture is where we took Katie for her daily training session.




Because we have had such a wet spring, and a cool one, the Mountains still have some snow on them and we are still experiencing spring run-off. This makes the rivers and creeks swollen, fast and a bit dirty so fly fishing isn’t at its best. But the view is well worth just getting out there.








These scraggly goats can be found on the same stretch of the highway all the time. It doesn’t matter how much traffic is on this highway, they just stay near that center line and force you to go around them. They just stay there licking the roads.












When I had the energy, I tried to walk at least 45 minutes every single day up and down through the campground. Some of the hills were challenging so I felt it was a pretty good walk. A couple of days I took out my tubes and bands outside and did some strength training.

I’m pretty sure I haven’t lost any weight and probably haven’t gained any either so I’m just fine with that. I hope to get up tomorrow morning and get started back at hitting the treadmill and weights. I’ve only got 8 weeks left to get in shape for the Kidney March and so I had better get my butt in shape – and fast!

Hope you enjoyed the views…

ttyl
Sandra

p.s., Happy July 4th my American Friends!