Creative Kimpire: Puzzle-ing, Purple Peppers, and Yoga Poses

Do you know how you know you're getting old? When you spend the evening doing a jigsaw puzzle. I found a Where's Waldo puzzle on EBay for like $3 so I had to buy it. It's only 100 pieces so I thought it would be easy....yeah, no. It took us close to an hour and a half to put it together. We found Waldo while constructing it but there's a whole list of things to find on the side of the box. You know what's not funny to do to someone when you've spent way longer putting together a puzzle than you imagined it would take? Hiding a piece so you can be the one to finish it. I looked for a specific piece FOREVER and was convinced that the person who sold it on eBay was a big fat liar and all the pieces weren't there like they said and they deserved negative feedback; but nooooo, my husband was the liar who hid that piece in his pocket and right when I was having a conniption about the eBay seller he produces it, puts it in, and proclaims "I win." WITH A SMILE ON HIS FACE 😡. I tell you what, if he hadn't gotten me ice cream I would've picked him up and slammed him🍦 ----> 😊. (I can do that, too. He’ll tell you I can’t but it’s been done more than once. Ok, so it might have been like 2 inches off the floor and we were standing right beside the bed but he got SLAMMED 😝).

I'm including a pic of the puzzle and list of items to find so you can play along, too 😉. You'll need to zoom in, of course. We got a bit confused about the men wearing tuxedos. There are several wearing suits, but not sure what constitutes a tuxedo in Where's Waldo world. Is it including a top hat? I don't know but that's what we went with.

Poor Sansa was feeling ignored while we were puzzling so she started throwing her ball at us. We eventually took a break to play hide and seek with her. She loves that game but she's too good at it now. She knows all our spots and finds us super fast. All the fun wore her out though so she plopped herself under the table like this...😂 @ that tongue!

As we were counting down the final days of summer, Phil(ip) and I decided we needed to get some summer activities in before it was too late. We visited Kennywood with my brother and his family and went golfing. Aside from camping, which we didn’t do, that’s about the extent of our summer bucket list, which makes it extra ridiculous that it took until the last two weeks to check them off. We’ve been too busy being gardners and home improvers. Anyway, several summers ago it seemed like we golfed 7 days a week; every evening after work and on days off. The woman at the club house used to recognize us when we when we went but every time she asked for a name Phil(ip) would say Phil and she would write Bill. So that's just his golf name now. I'm posting our score card but I'm warning you, it's not pretty. We aren't even remotely good but we have fun doing it. Oh, and the best part? I won 😋. But with 20 shots over par, that's nothing to brag about 😂.

I'm going to blame my score on the condition of the course. It definitely needs some TLC. Maybe because it's the end of the season they're not keeping up with the greens, or maybe it's been that way all summer, I don't know but they are sandy and some have bald patches. I have a hard enough time putting, I don't need any complications. After the first drive it all goes downhill. I can hit pretty well with my driver though. It's a good form of stress release as long as I don't try to kill it and take my eye off the ball and rip my guts out...

I finally cut into that watermelon I talked about last time. It was delicious! Huge, but delicious. It filled two big bowls!! We may have only gotten one watermelon from that plant but it was a good one at least.

The rest of the garden is slowly dwindling. The tomato jungle is still popping them out but has definitely slowed its pace. The cucumber plant got destroyed like the zucchini by the dumb bean beetles. I enjoyed bagging those suckers up when we pulled the zucchini plants out. I don't ever kill bugs but I admit that I left them in that bag to die and I'll do it again when we take out the cucumber. Gardening has hardened my heart so much! First the rabbits, then the beetles, and then the tomato stealing neighbors (who, by the way, stole more of my big ripe tomatoes. I'm half tempted to net that bed back up out of spite. See? I'm so cold!)

We have purple and green bell peppers that are doing well. They apparently like the cooler weather, who knew? Well, probably lots of people, like the kind who do research on gardening before planting a garden...

I didn’t know purple bell peppers even existed. They taste just like any other bell pepper but look like a red onion when you chop them up.

I’ve started teaching a beginner yoga class on Friday afternoons. I’m finally putting that American Council on Exercise Group Fitness Instructor certification to use! I’ve been working with Sansa and below, she attempts the wide angle seated forward bend but she keeps falling to the side 😂😂😉😉. Just kidding, she’s just a weirdo and likes to sit like this.

Philip bought me a yoga swing for birthday (cough*several months ago*cough) that we finally got around to hanging up today. I watched some videos and tried out a few moves.