Dancing with the Leaves

For the last seven days, we have had sunshine everyday with the bluest sky.  The temperatures have been in the 70's for daytime highs.  It has been awesome weather for being outside.  Laney and I have been taking daily walks and soaking up as much sunshine as possible.  We are headed outdoors again to start pulling up some seasonal foliage that has started to wither due to the cool nights.  The weather forecast is for rain later this week.   I am enjoying looking at the fall colors as the leaves are falling now.

I read some of my blog postings from the previous October and saw we had frost earlier.  We are definitely running a little behind schedule for the cool daytime temperatures and a lot of my flowers are still blooming.   I wish it would stay this way forever.

Hubby and I were out on the bike path this weekend.  It will probably be the last ride of the season as the bike paths were covered with leaves.  It was fun to ride the bikes as the leaves were falling.  I ended up with some in my hair.  I told hubby they were hair ornaments.

It is off to dance lessons tonight.  We are learning the cha cha.  Looking forward to dancing the night away. I am going outside now to cha cha with Laney as we enjoy this beautiful fall day.  Maybe we will dance amongst the leaves.

Life is beautiful !!

Elizabeth

Dancing the Night Away

We had a rainy weekend and yesterday the clouds departed and the sun returned once again.  We are now having some cool fall evenings and the trees are slowly starting to change colors.  We are having a late fall.  The forecast shows some beautiful sunny days ahead of us.  These beautiful fall days remind me of when I met my husband and the first date we had.  We went dancing and we danced our way through our college years.  Literally ever weekend we went dancing and we even won a dance contest. 

After this past year of walking a half marathon, a 10k, and a couple of 5k's, we decided to start another fun journey.  We traded our gym shoes for dancing shoes and we stepped out on the dance floor last evening.  We found a local dance studio and brought back some great memories as we practiced the Rumba.  We took ballroom dance lessons about 20 years ago and hopefully we can bring back some of those skills. 

We came home last evening and practiced our dance steps, while Laney sat perched on the couch watching us.  She even joined us a couple of times with a fancy four step.  She is always jealous and tries to cut in on hubby. 

It's back to the dance studio tonight to learn some more dance steps and more fun.  I am so glad a friend of mine recommended dancing.  It's a good cardio exercise, a way to strengthen our muscles and improve balance.  It also helps strengthen the mind as we are learning new skills.   But, the best thing about dancing is it is romantic and a lot of fun. 

Hope I can get everybody on the dance floor, as I plan on getting hubby to take me out on the town for some Rumba.  Watch out for Laney, she may do a solo.  Life is beautiful !!

Elizabeth