i kind of fell off the blogging wagon after last sunday. here's what i remember of what i've been doing since.
on monday, after a 12 hour shift with OB (saw a cesarean!) i made myself bike 12 miles since i knew rain was in forecast for the next couple of days. i was really not into it ;( partly b/c all day in OB i was thinking about a new project i wanted to work on...just in time for the rain to come! after biking i drove up to cloquet, where there is a walmart, and bought my materials!
tuesday and wednesday were pretty rainy, so i began my project. my friend kalie is getting married in august, and this coming saturday is her bachelorette party. the concept is wearing an ugly bridesmaid dress, but most of us don't have that, so it became an ugly prom dress concept, but then really it just became an ugly dress party. i didn't really know what to wear, so i decided to make something! tuesday night i made an electric blue pleated skirt completely from tulle! the next night i made a short hot pink skirt with satiny material layered over a lot of tulle! i couldn't decide which one i wanted to wear.
wednesday i had planned to bike with the pharmD student but it was super rainy. fortunately the weather cleared up by thursday, so we biked about 20 miles (to willow river and back)!
friday i did my favorite route, to mahtowa and back (25 miles)! thursday and friday i also continued to work on my "ugly dress". i started making a top, and also a matching clutch purse!!! i will post pictures when it is all done! basically i don't know how to make actual clothes, so it all just wraps around and ties. and i've discovered the fun of pleating and volume!
saturday, ellen, patricia, and kalie came up from the cities and visited!! i gave them the grand tour of moose lake, we did some great thrift store shopping (ellen bought an amazing ugly dress, and i bought some suspenders for a quarter!), we drove down to willow river to check out willow river days, had some sweet corn, saw part of the parade, ate at gampers (which i would really not recommend), and "hiked" in moose lake state park (also not that thrilling).
i've always wanted to wear suspenders but never sure if i could pull it off. there wasn't a mirror that i could find, so the girls took a picture of me so that i could decide if i wanted to make the 25cent investment.
part of the tour of moose lake was the moose lake city park, which i didn't make it out to much. there are two docks, a playground, and a bandstand; next door is the camping grounds.
in willow river we all had some sweet corn!
everyone looks like all smiles but the misquitos were deadly and we were miserable. patricia and ellen are poking out of a detour we made to avoid a bog. we are not good hikers ;(
our detour is on the right and the bog is on the left!
they all had to leave in the late afternoon, which made me kind of miss the city. i made myself bike about 12 miles, through the moose lake state park bike trail and a bit on the munger trail. i didn't really like that route. earlier that day, an anesthesiologist on call at the hospital, who was staying at mercy, had pumped up my bike tires. i had no idea what bike tires should feel like, but apparently mine were really flat. it made a world of difference!
i had a nice dinner of candy strip beets and beet greens! beets are so fun!
