The Bunch Go Swimming and Play Dress Up

Iris is FINALLY 🙌 ready to start exercising again

We have had a wonderful time with our "Fun Jar". This week some of the highlights drawn were going swimming and having a timed costume party. We decided to go swimming at the lake by our house, mostly because it is the closest, but also it has a great swim beach and is usually not very crowded. We had so much fun. It was enjoyable to sort of do something that hasn't really been changed by the Corona Virus. The biggest difference was that now only so many people are allowed in per day and when you go to the bathroom you must wear your mask. However, I can count on both hands how many people besides us were at the beach when we went and we were in no danger of being too close to anyone. I pretty much just took my kick board and exercised for an hour while everybody else played volleyball in the water with a beachball. I am not sure why, but they usually don't like to play with me. Maybe I get too competitive. Either way I had fun and good exercise and they had fun and good exercise. I have sort of a reputation (not for being too competitive...ok maybe for being too competitive, but more specifically I was referring to technology). D and I are both fairly technologically challenged. Case in point. As I was resting in my beach chair, tired from my kickboard excursion, I saw my family playing with their beachball and decided I should capture it on camera. Now, it is really hard to see a smartphone in the sun outside, especially when you keep the brightness down to save battery power. I have my phone set so when I press the button twice the camera turns on and if I touch the up volume then it will take a picture. This way I can take pictures without seeing the screen. Basically, what I have a reputation for now is not knowing I have accidentally flipped the camera and are just taking weird selfies. Yep. That happened again. I have one pic of my lovely family playing and several of my ear and myself making faces while I try to see if the camera is on. I keep living up to my reputation. Oh, well. One day I'll get it.

The one photo I took of my family.

Now a photo my ear

Yet another of me. As you can see the beach was pretty deserted.

I ended up with one of the fam and 10 of me😂

The timed costume party was fun. Basically, we each picked a theme and whoever picked the theme was the judge of that contest. We had 10 minutes to use only things from our rooms to dress up in. The themes we had were blue, Downton Abbey, animal, and Jumanji. It was definitely different and not something we would normally do. We had fun and laughed a lot.

Downton Abbey Theme...A won this one.

Animal Theme. T was a cat, A a polar bear and L a flamingo. L won.

Jumanji Theme. A won this also.

The Blue theme. I technically won this one, but T's was super awesome!

After more than year, the horse is finally super sound on her feet and ready to start working. We started today just having her walk at a fast pace for 15 consecutive minutes. She did so good that next time we will saddle her and try a short brisk walk with the saddle on. I think she really enjoyed getting out for her walk today. She did not spook at all even though a couple of cars drove by and the neighbor's horse was calling to her. Her little donkey sister is doing really well also. We can't take the donkey on walks though. She is pretty stubborn about walking with her halter.

She looks mad, but she was just trying to figure out what the camera was going to do to her.

Our daily dog walk.

I hope everyone is doing okay during in this pandemic and know that we really miss seeing you!