Once again our kitchen is overflowing with summer fruits, nothing to complain about there, but they all need to be used up! You know what this means! Yup, fruit salad yet again! I started cutting up all the different fruits, but got distracted when I was cutting up the watermelon. I remembered a tasty sounding recipe on a blog I had read for watermelon lemonade! I had to try it! I followed Miranda's recipe, and tasted. Pretty good, but I remembered I had a few strawberries and raspberries cut up in the fridge, so I tossed those in for good measure. The result was this refreshing icy treat. Not bad!
My strength renewed I kept on chopping. Today's salad had pineapple, watermelon, cantaloupe, peach, strawberries, cherries, coconut, mint and lime juice. I thought it might be good with some lavender too, so I tried it out on a small bowl.
Um, yeah. Not so much. The flowers were too intense, bitter, and kinda tasted like cleaner. That idea was a bust. Oh well, at least I didn't put it all over the whole bowl of fruit!
It was a good fruit salad, very fresh and light.
I wasn't very good about taking pictures last night. No pics of dinner. But we had the fruit salad, Yves veggie dogs and fresh buns heated on the grill, and some baked beans. The perfect summer meal.
B and I watched a few movies last night, keeping to our late schedule for work. This means that on the weekends we watch 2 or 3 movies a night and staying up until about 3am, but during the week we don't watch anything. So, we started with Cop Out, Kevin Smith's newest movie. It was funny, I always love Bruce Willis. Not one of Smith's best though. Worth at least one viewing in my book. Then we put on Ben Hur, as I had never seen it. We only made it through the fist disc because it's about a million hours long. We'll finish it tonight. And finally, we watched the new Death at a Funeral. I personally liked the original with Hugh Grant much better. Chris Rock seemed like he was trying too hard to actually act. Oh well, it was good for a few laughs.
Before our last movie B and I went on a nice walk out to the ocean. The moon was almost full, and all the surrounding islands were illuminated. It was so mild out, and the stretch felt good after sitting so long. Very pleasant.
This morning I slept in again. I LOVE weekends! I made myself breakfast: another banana spelt muffin, yogurt with a peach on top, and sliced casaba melon with lime juice. I ate the muffin, and drank my tea, and started feeling kinda full. I wrapped up the bowl of yogurt and peach for later and just dug into the melon.
Casaba melon is my all-time favorite melon! It has so much flavorful juicy sweetness! My dad used to serve it chilled, with lime juice. SO refreshing and amazingly good! Oh, just talking about it makes me want more! This specific melon was perfectly ripe too, adding to it goodness! (I guess all those years picking out melons for people in the grocery store produce department paid off!)
I folded the laundry and helped B clean up our room. Then I tried to get in some much needed exercise. I just bought a new exercise ball, as my last one ended up like this...
It was a victim of our new cat Andy. He's kind of a spaz, being only a year old and still kitten-y.
I got the new ball all pumped up, and tried out the dvd that came with it. They had some pretty good exercises on there. Lots of leg lifts, pelvic tilts, and crunches. I did about 30 minutes worth of work with the big yellow ball, then some core stuff with my little medicine ball. It's about 3lbs.
I also did about 15 minutes with my 3lb weighted hula hoop. I love this thing! It gives a kind of massage to your midsection.
Andy cat was interested in the goings on in the living room.
I made myself a smoothie with the left over yogurt and peach from breakfast, adding a handful of frozen raspberries, and a big handful of fresh spinach, plus a slosh of vanilla rice milk. It was just what I needed after my workout.
Now to go wander the garden with Izzie, and enjoy the evening. No ideas whatsoever as to dinner. Oh well.
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