A lazy Sunday hike with friends followed by a most yummy dinner. We spent the afternoon hiking the trails in Mandeville Canyon, something I need much more of in my life this year. It was such a lovely day, there was none of that nasty L.A. fog to impede our view, you could see Catalina Island so clearly. This was two firsts today, hiking a trail I've never been on and hiking with Little Man. He added a 20+ lbs of resistance so it was also a good workout. The workout of course was completely negated by the rich dinner I ate of halibut with crab and a herb butter sauce, red cabbage with goat cheese and of course there was an artichoke dip to start. I've only eaten at Houston's twice now but I was quite impressed. Top it all off with good company and it was by far one of the better Sundays I've had in a while.
(Little Man really did not want to wear his hat but unfortunately for him he inherited my Nordic fair skin and a sun burnt baby was not one of the firsts I wanted to experience today.)

On another note Elsie over at A Beautiful Mess is treating herself to a reward if she completes her goal of 10 paintings this week. She's inviting everyone to challenge themselves along with her and I am ecstatically/hesitantly jumping on that bandwagon. It's a good way to motivate, I just hope I don't drop the ball on this. So my goal is to get my garage cleaned out this week. This will help check a few things off my list like getting organized and being able to park in the garage (which will hopefully motivate me to wash my car).
Now the reward for completing this goal was inspired by ROOTMIX. It's been quite a long time since I last worked with my encaustics and I found myself longing to dig them out again. So once the garage is finished,which will yield boxes of said encaustic equipment, I have the perfect spot picked out to set up a workspace. A reward that will hopefully inspire more creativity this year.