Hello Monday! 10 On The 10th: July 2026

Since Friday was July 10th, I tried to take 10 pictures but it was a very boring day. Instead I am sharing ten pictures from our weekend and linking up with Holly and Sarah for Hello Monday! Holly blogs at Pink Lady and you can find her here, and Sarah blogs at Sunshine And Books, and you can find her here.

Rachel was volunteering at VBS last week and the church it was held at was about a half hour walk from our house. So almost every day I walked her there and back and came home in between. I got a lot of walking in last week and spent a lot of time on my favourite path!

I've spent so much time on the deck this summer. I love it when the laundry is hung and I can relax with a cup of coffee-hot chocolate and some water and just enjoy! The main reason I stopped taking pictures on Friday is that I sat out all Friday afternoon and read an entire book. And then Rachel and I watched Legally Blonde (which I'd never seen) and Legally Blonde Part 2.

I needed a plan to tackle the last of the boxes from the renovation so Dave worked at the office this past week and I took over his home office and unpacked (and sorted) boxes. On Friday, I unpacked the boxes with our games. I've made good progress on the boxes but there is still more to do. I will be so glad when this part of the renovation is over!!!

On Saturday, I ran some errands with Rachel and baked an Earl Grey Tea Cake with Blueberry Cream Cheese frosting for an event. Rachel and I went to a "cake picnic" at one of the cafes in our downtown. There were about twenty different kinds of cakes and it was so much fun!!! Rachel and I definitely got our fair share of cake! And while we didn't win anything, we did receive a few votes for "most creative flavour" and "best overall cake" so I was pretty happy.

Yesterday we drove to a beach not too far from us on Lake Erie. Recently, I've started listening to a few episodes of the Acquired podcast. I started with the Coke one last week and it got me through a lot of laundry folding and box unpacking. So I suggested we start listening to the Starbucks episode. When we saw a sign for Starbucks, we had to stop! Rachel is holding a bag of their coffee because, did you know that for the first 10 or so years, Starbucks didn't actually sell brewed coffee. They just sold small packages of beans. We're not done the episode yet but it's given all of us so much to talk about. It's seriously fascinating!!!

We went to a beach which imports palm trees from Florida each year! It's kind of their thing and something this beach is famous for!

We had lunch on the patio and enjoyed the view before plunking ourselves down on the beach, and in the water, for a few hours. 

I'm finishing the weekend off with eating a piece of leftover cake and blogging under the solar lights on the deck. I just love summer weekends! I hope you all had good weekends too.