Weekend Highlights

• The fact that the weekend was three days instead of two!

• Finishing another novel on Friday night, and starting yet another on Sunday. . . I am on a roll, people! It is so fun to be reading so much again.
  

• Finally getting around to hemming two new pairs of pants, including some fabulous red ones that I can't wait to wear next week.

• Having dinner with Dan at Schlafly Bottleworks, one of my favorite St. Louis eateries. I had their delicious mac-and-cheese with their field greens salad--I crave their vanilla vinaigrette dressing with goat cheese every time!

• Getting in a fabulous workout on Friday morning, and feeling good that I am getting committed enough to my exercise to head over to the gym on a holiday.
  

• Enjoying again and again a huge fruit salad that Dan made with watermelon, strawberries, red grapes, and cantaloupe. Sooo delicious, and so perfect for a summer day.

• Spending two hours walking by myself at the Botanical Gardens, where I had the pleasure of seeing, among other things, an endless sea of colorful day lilies and the most gorgeous lotus flowers I have ever seen on the water at the Japanese Gardens.

• The paddle boats at Forest Park! The weather finally cooperated. Dan and I took a trip around the water in the park, then had brunch by the lake afterward. It couldn't have felt more like summer.