Barefoot Saturday & Garden

City Garden - starting at top Peas, Broccoli & herbs, cucumber or squash & red peppers,
bottom is cucumber and corn.

I have sunflowers and mustard plants that I let come up in my garden from last year.  There is also a vine growing in the same plot as the peppers, not sure but it came up by itself, so I let it be. 

This week I recovered from my hike.  It took till Wednesday before my legs felt like doing stairs again.  Just the one bruise on the bottom of my right foot still hurts, I have to probe to find it and it is now feels like a little bump now.   My sleep has improved and I'm hoping to start jogging again next week.  I am actually looking into hiring a running coach to help me with my form.

This week I've brought the kids to Vacation Bible School (VBS) at the church every night.  They had a lot of fun, but we ended up getting home around 9 which makes for a late night.  Saturday morning was the men's breakfast and us guys went and I let my daughter sleep in.  I've been going to church this whole week barefoot and word has spread of my barefooted hike up the mountain thanks to Fred and George.

After breakfast I came back home and mowed the lawn, did a little work in the garden and cleaned up some bad weed growing in the shrubs.  The garden is growing nicely and was done 100% with bare feet.  After lunch I ran over the to Dollar Store and purchased a card (barefoot) then we headed out to a graduation party for a young man in our church who is heading out to join the Marines.  I thought for sure my mom would ask if I was going to wear shoes, but she said nothing.  So I arrived at the party barefoot.  Most of the people were from church and are use to seeing me barefoot now.  Though I don't think most of them know how much I go barefoot.
 One friend commented on the bare feet in my summit picture I posted on facebook, but other than that, nothing was said.  I don't think most people really notice or probably think your shoes are nearby.

So I managed another 100% barefoot day.  Vacation is coming up soon and I'm anxious to see how many days I can manage 100% barefoot on my trip to New York City.

Low Key Weekend

This weekend I stayed at home.  We had  yard sale in the morning where my daughter sold more then I did.  Which is a good thing cause now I know she has money for camp at the end of the month.  Most of the time while the yard sale was out I was working in the garden plucking out the weeds.  I think I got everything planted.  Still need to find something for the peas to climb up, but the garden is looking real good this year.

You would think that since I stayed home I would have had a whole day without wearing shoes. It was not the case.  My mom had finally finished her floor yet again.  The floor had a nice factory finish, but it wasn't shinny enough and she thought it was worn, so she waxes the floor every now and then.  Now that she has waxed the floor I am not allowed in that room barefoot.  She claims bare feet leave marks on the floor and I need to either wear socks or slippers.  At least she has a reason besides a distaste for bare feet.

Next Saturday is my big hike up a 4,000 foot mountain in NH.  I'm going with a group from church and do plan to attempt the whole hike barefoot.  I am sure people will ask me if I plan to hike barefoot and I plan on replying, "That would be crazy, wouldn't it?"  Of course then I'll head up the trail barefoot.  The total miles will be 7.8 with a gain of over 3,000 feet.  Should be very interesting. 

Sad Shoe Day on Saturday

This past week has not been a good week for being barefoot for me.  It has been cold and rainy just about all week long.  I didn't get much barefoot time in at all.

On Thursday, our city has what is called Taco de Mayo in celebration of Cinco de Mayo.  Many of the business in the downtown district will create mini tacos and sell them for $2.  Each business also picks a charity they are sponsoring during that event.  It becomes a contest of sorts on who can raise the most money for their charity.  They have ice cream tacos from Ben & Jerry's, a Rueben taco at the Queens Pub and I even saw a fish taco.  They do have more traditional style tacos as well, like chicken and beef.  It is fun reading all the different style tacos and figuring out which ones you want to try.  I was very disappointed that I did not attend this event barefoot, it was just too cold.  We even went home early due to the cold.

On Saturday we went to the garden center to pick up some vegetable plants for the garden.  Once again it was too cold and wet for me to try shopping barefoot.  We did buy some tomato, broccoli, red peppers, lettuce, flowers and lots of organic fertilizers.  We had planned to do some planting on Saturday as well, but it started to rain again. 

Sunday, I went to Price Rite and was finally able to leave the shoes home.  My daughter even joined me being barefoot.  Then I stayed barefoot as I planted the tomatoes.  So the new week has started off nice and the weather looks to be improving, so I'll be doing more barefooting in the days to come.