It is Sunday, July 27th...and I am woefully slow in posting on my blog!! Please excuse! I need serious help with a few things I don't understand about blogging (pictures,etc.) and time to sit and write. I do have good intentions...but other things tend to end up priorities. But Dad, aka. Jim and Grandpa, is fixing Sunday dinner and I had a few minutes to write so thought I would.

On Pioneer Day I ran my first race of the season...a shorter training run...and did the 10K. I was thrilled as my time was (according to my trusty watch chronograph...I hope to get the "official chip time" soon) was 1:08! The last time I ran it a few years ago I did 1:06. I would have liked a faster time (but talk to any runner and no matter what their time they will invariably say "I sure wish I could have done a faster time!!") but am actually thrilled as my times had slowed with an injury I ran on for a long time and with...oh, should I say it? Could it possibly be that I am getting a little older?? and I felt like I would be lucky to run a 1:10-20! So I did better than I expected! My next race will be August 23rd and will be a 1/2 marathon...Hobble Creek...then the St. George Marathon in October!

I mentioned awhile back that I would post the reason for the choice for my blogsite...Sailors Rest! I wish I could post a ship/ocean background with it but I don't know how...later, baby! Anyway, when I met my darling he was in the Navy...gotta love the guy in uniform! We fell in love through letters (he was serving his first Vietnam tour of duty) and later married. I then became a Navy Wife and loved being so! Stephanie, Brent, Greg, and Cheryl joined our family and became wonderful "Navy Brats". Jim served...and we all served alongside him. He served 24 wonderful years. In Bremerton, Washington I served at the Red Cross with a wonderful lady. We knew her husband, a Captain, and their son served under Jim on the U.S.S. Ranger, an aircraft carrier. At one of the Officer Wives activities we went to her home and they had a sign out front at the entrance "Sailors Rest". I loved that designation of their home and property and wanted to use it sometime. Now we are retired and in our own home we have created our own "Sailors Rest" and although we don't have a sign out front...I thought we would use this on our Blog. So there you have it!! My "Officer and a Gentleman" has dinner ready (and no, he was not a Navy Cook!!) so I must retire to the family room and enjoy the delectables he has created. Cooking is something he enjoys and now he has the time to do it! Retirement has it's benefits! So, for now, so long...and I will try to get back before too much time passes! Happy Sunday!

It is a few days later and I still don't have the time to really sit and compose an interesting post...but thought I would still just write a few lines for fun. One of these days I won't be brain-dead with it being my bedtime and having had a busy day...and I will actually write something useful?? Thanks to Cheryl and Karen for their comments! Karen, I love your patriotic background on your blog! One of these days maybe I can do that,too! This weekend (Friday afternoon through Saturday) I am having a girls night out with my mom, Jennifer, and Maureen and we are watching a 5 hr. movie (can't remember the name) written by the same authoress that wrote "Wives and Daughters" and "North and South" (not the civil war series). If it is good I will let you all know. I did a 14-mile training run this morning. My time is not great but with the injury I was running on the past 1 and 1/2 years it played havoc on my form and times. So I need to do alot of track and speed work. Well, I must go for now and get some shut-eye! I was hoping to go on Story-Sorority tonight but it is after 10 p.m. and I want/need to get up at 0400-0430...so goodnight to you all! Sweet dreams!

Beginning

I really want to spend more time writting my blog but I thought I would just put a few notes on to get it started (since Karen helped me get this set up quite awhile back and I was just too busy to take the time to write. This past week my "sailor boy" and I spent the week in Cedar City and St. George at the Utah Shakespearean Festival and Touchan to see plays and musicals. It was so much fun! In a few days I will write more and tell you why we decided to come up with our blog title of "Sailors Rest". As I get a bit more familiar with blogging I will get some neat backgrounds to put up and some more pictures to put on. For now...have patience with me!! Thanks to Karen for helping me get this set up. (And to Cheryl for her help, too. She set up a blog page with two dancing bananas!! And I never did write on that as I was still too confused with blogging! I think "Sailors Rest" will work better!!) So till my next blog...have a great day and know you are loved!