In a year of challenge, I spent the summer of 2020 on the water. With summer travel plans cancelled, my vacation days became long weekends. I was on my paddle board at least once a week, but two or three paddles a week was not unusual. Paddling is more fun with company, so I have two extra boards.
On the first Saturday in February one of my paddle friends and I decided it would be fun to check on our usual paddle spot, Percy Priest Lake. The Volunteer Trail in Long Hunter State Park has great views of some of the lake’s main islands.
The Yoga Cowgirl 
What a lovely place to catch up with a friend, remembering the summer in the depths of winter. I love the picture of you and Jolene on the bench. 🙂 Your paddle boards are so bright and colorful. I’m guessing you paddle out to the islands for your lunch? Sounds like fun. 🙂
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Yes! Friday lunch on a island is the BEST!
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Cheers to your joy for the outdoors. Hi Jolene!
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What a lovely place. I haven’t tried paddle boarding. Yet. Bench yoga. I like it. It’s good to see you and your pup. 🙂
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Thanks
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What a great challenge, the views you have there are spectacular and serene. What fun!
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Tennessee is pretty cool.
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It’s a beautiful place, I have 2 cousins there near Thompson Station.
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Not far from me at all.
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Fabulous. Great pics. It looks like you are in really great shape from your yoga and paddleboarding. Great pic of your dog too! I have always wanted to try the paddleboard thing. I first witnessed people paddleboarding during the summer in Juneau at Mendenhall glacier lake. Can you imagine standing on the paddleboard looking at a huge glacier off in the distance? They wear cold water suits to keep them warm. And it does sometimes get up to 75 or 80 in the summers up there. It looked amazing.
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Now I have a new like goal! I would love to paddle it to see the glaciers.
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Juneau Alaska is so awesome like that. Mendenhall Glacier. Consider putting it on the ole bucket list :). If you do a google search and select images, you can see the big huge lake in front of it. Dang I miss that place.
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Sounds lovely. Hope we don’t melt it with our greed.
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I love the photo of your pup — she’s a cutie! I admire your ability to operate a paddle board and still get such interesting pictures. You’ll have to share how you did that, Sarah!! 😉
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These photos were all taken from land, put in the summer I shoot from the board. My secret is calm water and sit down!!!
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Does Jolene go with you on the board? There’s a guy who paddleboards up and down a channel that passes by a marina where I work occasionally, and his dog always is on the front of the board, just looking around. It amazes me. I suspect there was a lot of training in the beginning.
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Working on it. She does not like the water, so am am working on getting her comfortable with water and swimming first. Heeler are known for hating water. My previous dog would go with me.
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