Primal Stride – Five at Five Day 3

So much for updating a week’s challenges in one blog entry. I changed my mind, and it’s become one entry a day, apparently. 🙂 Apparently, I’m too verbal for it to be just one sentence or something. *le sigh*

Success on both Primal Stride Five at Five goals. Out of bed at 6:31 (okay, so a minute late, but who’s counting?) and 17 laps done in my garden.

I also drank my salty electrolyte water before walking, so this is good. But I also got a bit lightheaded near the end of the walking. That lightheadedness is still with me after making breakfast. I hope it’s not going to be one of those kinds of days.

I also woke with a headache, the kind caused by neck tension, so did my neck exercises. That, as I think of it, is the most likely cause of the lightheadedness.

Ah well. Onwards and upwards, ho!

I’ve also included a photo of our front garden. It’s not a large garden, but it works for us. 🙂

From the left… First there’s the decorative palm, then a jasmine tree with small white flowers. The jasmine tree is small – I hacked most of it off a couple of times to keep the papaya mealy bug in check. Then we have a bush with yellow-polka dotted leaves, then another large decorative palm.

Then a bush which produces clumps of red flowers with my thebu (Costus speciosus) in the middle. Thebu is an edible leaf that tastes a bit like ginger, and we quite like it. 🙂 Then a potted plant with reddish purple leaves and a bush with spiky red flowers. Following that is my clump of lemongrass which I don’t water frequently enough.

Then, off by its lonesome on the far right is a volunteer papaya tree. Still very young, of course, being less than a foot tall. The papaya tree appeared about a month or so ago.