Greetings! Welcome to #WeekendCoffeeShare, thank you for meeting me on this Saturday morning. Depending on when you’re reading this post, I may already be inside, away from the burning sun.

First of all, Hello July!

Second of all, can you blame me? It’s the first 90-degree-Fahrenheit of the year and no doubt, the UV ray will be at extreme levels, not that they weren’t before. Even with sunscreen, I can feel my skin sizzling beneath the sun rays.

Anyway, it’s been a rough week, extra rough. My internet was down during work hours on Monday and didn’t come back on until 8:30 PM. Essentially, I lost a whole day of work.

I was going to make up the hours on Wednesday but a rock hit my car’s windshield on my way to work. Usually, I’m not too worried about that since I paid $500 on rock chip protection when I bought the car almost 5 years ago. I’ve had quite a few rock chips over the years because the roads in Utah are hazardous this way.

Anyway, when I pulled onto my driveway about 7 hours later, there was a crack on the windshield. In my gut, I knew it was too late because rock chip places don’t usually fix anything that’s larger than a quarter and this is more like a dollar-bill. Still, mom told me to take a chance and made me drive to the next town in rush hour traffic to see if they’d fix it. The answer was no but mom didn’t want me to replace the windshield either. She told me to wait.

Until when?

In the end, I had to make up the hours by putting them on paid-time-off.

I have also been battling night terror this week and for a while now. I don’t remember when it began but I’m sure it has something to do with stress. When we were in the UK in May and I had to share a bed with mom, I had a nightmare that made me bolt up in bed and slam my fist into the closest thing I could find. Thankfully, it was the empty space with me and mom on the bed.

Between mom keeping me up at odd hours and I struggling to stay asleep with these night terror episodes, it’s been a month of near insanity. No wonder there are dark circles and large bags under my eyes. According to my Fitbit, my sleep and stress scores have been in the low 70’s for the past month.

I have begun learning Japanese, like seriously learn Japanese, in the last few nights, starting with Hiragana. I am finding it easier to learn the pronunciation than remembering phrases. Mom is currently learning the same thing but she’s doing it her way and I have my own way.

Overall though, I can’t complain about June despite all the craziness. There were some ups and downs but that’s normal, because otherwise, this would be called life. I had lots of harvests in the garden from potatoes to carrots to peas and greens. There were also lots of colors for me to enjoy in the form of flowers.

The dill and coreopsis (tick seed) have started flowering this week. It’s my first time growing dill even though I got the seeds in the fall of 2021. If I knew them to be this beautiful, I would’ve grown them last year. Pollinators are loving their large umbrella-shaped blooms.

The coreopsis is incredibly drought-tolerant. I don’t usually give it a lot of water and yet, they continue to thrive. Plants never ceases to amaze.

Here are a few of my favorite garden pictures from June.

I’m not sure what to look for in July yet other than the 4-day long weekend I’m currently enjoying. Maybe this is my tired brain talking but I hope to recharge on my rest and in the meantime, enjoy my garden because there are less than 3 months before first frost.

#weekendcoffeeshare is hosted by Natalie of Natalie the Explorer. I appreciate you stopping by. Until next we chat. 🙂