#PoolLife on Sunday, too!

Weekend goal: accomplished! ...No, it wasn't "clean the house" or "sweep and pull weeds on the patio", though I did wash a load of laundry each morning. My goal for this past weekend was to spend both afternoons at the pool. I already posted about "#PoolLife" for Saturday. Here's Sunday.



Years ago my father would critique my photos, "Son, the picture's empty. You need people in it." Well, aside from the fact that landscape photography is a thing— and it's always been my thing, whereas his was portrait photography—there are people in this photo. Two of my neighbors are sitting in the deep shade off the left, and those are my feet at the bottom center. My feet are in the frame on purpose because this is a photo I made while floating around on my back in the pool, barely a care in the world on a warm weekend afternoon.

I seized the opportunity when I saw the weather would cooperate with us this weekend to lounge around by the pool all afternoon each day. I cleared the schedule and said, "Let's plan to stay home and enjoy the pool." Still it took a smidge of effort each day to get out, versus lounging comfortably inside the house, but I'm glad I did it.

I didn't just float around on my back sipping margaritas all afternoon. I mean, I only had one cocktail, and it wasn't a margarita. 🤣 Before floating around lazily I did aerobic exercises in the pool. I got my pulse rate up for 30 minutes or so then treating myself to lounging around. Oh, and I didn't drink alcohol in the pool. That was for after, while sitting on the deck. I'm responsible that way. 🤣

May and June Blogging. What's Still in the Backlog.

It's been a while since I checked in with my blogging stats. To be particular, it's been two months since I posted March and April stats. Two months seems about the right frequency for this meta-blogging.

• In May I nearly hit my stretch goal of 2 posts/day. I came in at 1.97 with 61 entries in 31 days.


• In June I slowed down but still achieved my intermediate goal of 1.5/day, with 47 posts in 30 days (1.57/day avg).


• I thought June would be another 2-a-day month like May— and March and April— because I was still catching up on my trip to Italy and had other items, including catching up from earlier trips, in my backlog. Instead, many of those things remain in my backlog because I ran out of steam for blogging. From the middle of June on I struggled to post even once a day.


• But I did keep up with my baseline goal of posting something every day. That streak's been unbroken since February, and if I overlook that one off day my streak of writing daily goes back over a year at this point.

So, what's still in my backlog as I go into July?

• I have a scattering of blogs from hikes from a recently as a week ago Sunday (Alviso slough) to a few months ago (e.g., Pinnacles National Park).


• I still have several blogs stuck in backlog from our trip to New Zealand— which is now 14 months ago!


• This isn't backlog yet, but I'm about to leave on a vacation trip to Oregon, so I'll have a lot to write over the next week-plus.