July Joys

July was... interesting. A lot of really great things happened but I also had some stuff come up in my personal life and that has been/is hard. However, I want to celebrate the joys, not to ignore the hard, but to put my perspective on the many blessings I enjoyed this month.

My month started in Tennessee, and I spent the last day of June in Kentucky, so I've still been to a different state every month this year except January! When is the streak going to end? Who knows!

We were in Tennessee to get our two Great Pyrenees livestock guardian dogs! It's been an adventure having Glacier and Canyon here and we are working on training them to our property. We also got barn cats! Two new species in the same month! Another farm update is that the guys finished the new woodshop and we got that moved. It was the same weekend that we split wood. It was an exhausting weekend.

Here are my July Joys:

• visiting loved ones in TN
  
• baby shower
  
• grad party
  
• bridal shower
  
• paddleboarding
  
• Adventure Challenges with the family
  
• MY FRIENDS MOVED BACK!!!!
  
• visits with various friends
  

Let's see how the goals went :)

Personal

• Letterboxing. Nope. Between all the things that cropped up and the rain, it didn't happen. When I did have a day free with no rain, I didn't want to go out.
  
• Kentucky trip. A variety of things outside of my control conspired to cancel this trip. We're still hoping to do it... at some point.
  
• Start babysitting job. This will be starting soon, just barely making it in July :) The baby was born late and then the Microsoft thing happened and between the two things, this didn't start when any of us expected.
  
• 1-3 John study. This did happen!!! And is going to continue happening through August. I keep falling behind but I catch up on the weekends.
  

As you can see, not a lot that I planned happened, but I did a lot still! So I don't mind that several of these things didn't happen. Two were outside of my control anyway.

Business

• Well, I hardly did anything with the Composition Course because I attended the Conquer Summit! Three days of webinars, taking notes as fast as I could, and now I am S L O W L Y working through the notes and resources that I compiled to improve my business! Again, not what I planned but super good nonetheless.
  

It's funny because, the rough thing that happened this month has clouded over so much of the good! I'd forgotten about some of this because all I could see was what I didn't like. Doing things like this is a great way to regain some perspective!

How was your July? Did you do anything fun? Or did some hard things happen to you and you need to join me in a perspective shift?

Tennessee was showing off one night. It was breathtaking.

Canyon

Glacier

This is Thor

and this is Myrtle

This was an Adventure Challenge. We made a tray of chips and cheese to dip into our Nacho Olaf :)