I don’t think I’ve shared anything here on my blog about my summer this year, just on social media. I do plan to share someday…hopefully soon. But short version, at the beginning of June I had surgery to repair an umbilical hernia that I’d had for many years. Which means, it was a pretty extensive surgery. For other reasons that I will also dive into at a later date, I had been walking 1.5-2 miles after every meal since January. So to stop after five months while I healed made me a little stir crazy. It’s amazing how a habit like that can affect you.

Healing took longer than I thought it would. And while I have been working my way back up, generally walking a mile a day, it’s nowhere near what I used to do because I would still get little–or bigger–pains while walking. A mile was my safe zone…until yesterday when I walked 2.1 miles in Texas. (Here with hubs while he works.)

I tell you what, it felt marvelous! The past few days I hadn’t been really having any of the random pains that I’d been having so I decided it was time to expand the walk. And the beauty of walking early in the morning (out of necessity in the middle of summer in Texas) is you get to see some pretty incredible sunrises. Loving it!

I brought a stash of supplies with me to Texas and was very much inspired to create a page about all this in my ‘anything goes’ journal. This is the first physical page I’ve made since before my surgery. So yesterday was a really big day for me and it felt great! :)

 

 

Stamps: Growing Wild, Franklin SM, A Normal Day (note block), Street Stories (early morning) Keeping Record (saved in a photograph) and Prompted (feeling good).