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Howdy all y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! Another nice morning, but I took the day off from exercise walking. I did get out to Kroger for some shopping though. The lawn guys are here now, and from what I can see are being careful of the newly laid sod.
This afternoon I need to take Lilo in for a recheck on her kidney function, and urinalysis, as I think she has another UTI.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
As always, take all videos wth a grain of salt. Or two, or three...
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Lilo's bloodwork was outstanding. I just need to keep doing what I am doing for now.0
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Howdy all y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! It looked cloudy and felt sticky when I started my walk, but had cleared mostly up with bright sunshine by the time I got home, an hour and twenty minutes or so later. FitBit says I have walked 4.48 miles so far today.
I got a laugh yesterday, when I noticed that my 50 minutes of blueberry picking was recorded as swimming and it awarded a day of exercise for that. I guess between the shopping and the blueberry picking, I may have actually earned that. Picking berries IS exercise but not as strenuous to me as walking (or swimming) would be.
Speaking of swimming, our group hasn't had any pool parties and, for now, aren't scheduling any, which is kind of a mixed deal. We won't get to see our friends, and the lack of socialization will not help my anxiety levels when we do get back to normal. The pool parties can be a bit rough on the social anxiety part of my general anxiety disorder, but I cope by having a "job" to do, keeping the food sorted out and arranged, and showing any new guest around, which forces me to meet people in a less stressful way.
On the other hand, my social anxiety is getting a rest, and I am saving money, time, effort, and electricity by not preparing a huge dish of baked beans every couple of weeks. And I am not being tempted every couple of weeks by big plates of cookies, brownies, cakes, cobbler, and pies.
Not a lot on the agenda today. Hopefully a nap, as Lilo's vet visit ate that time yesterday.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy all y'all. It's fabulous Friday! Another nice morning for a walk, and I took one. I need to do a bit of housework today, including folding those towels and such that are still in the dryer.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy all y'all. It's satisfying Saturday! I have done my walking, and am resting now after breakfast, and sipping my morning tea. Not a lot NECESSARY on the agenda today, but a bit that I SHOULD be doing. LOL. I will think about it after tea.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy all y'all. It's sumptuous Sunday! I am taking a day off from walking today. I may go out in a moment to pick blueberries.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy all y'all. It's marvelous Monday! Cool this morning, with a small chance of rain, but a much bigger chance of rain this afternoon. I might do a little light housework.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy all y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! Too sticky outside to walk and there's too much chance of getting drenched. I do need to find Lilo in a bit for her Tuesday shot, which I have ready near the stove. Perhaps some light house cleaning today.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Today's wine delivery to help restock the wine racks. Two or three old favorites and a nice selection of new (to me) wines that I look forward to trying.
My wine club mostly sells private label wines from relatively small wineries, though I do have fond memories of the year I was able to snag a case of Pat Paulsen California Red from them, at a good price. Never saw it on the website again.
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Howdy all y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! It was sticky out there again this morning, but I needed to get to Kroger anyway, so I went early to take advantage of senior shopping hours for Wednesday morning. Not many shoppers in the store at all, but a lot of shelf stocking going on that was somewhat in the way.
Our Kroger has apparently stopped carrying bran flakes (any brand) and we really don't want raisin bran, so I guess I will have to look at Ingles or Publix soon to get that item. After the first, when I go to Petsmart for more canned cat food, I can try to get to a grocery as well, for the bran flakes.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy all y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! Another sticky morning, with 100% humidity out there right now, and it looks like rain, so no walk this morning.
Maybe a bit of housework today.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
Howdy all y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! Another sticky morning, with 100% humidity out there right now, and it looks like rain, so no walk this morning.
When I went out about 5:30, it wasn't technically raining, but I could hear it "raining" in all the trees. I think the 100% humidity had met the dewpoint and the water in the air was condensing on the leaves and dropping off. As my walk would have taken me under many trees, and the humidity was so high that my clothes would have wicked moisture and gotten all damp and uncomfortable, I just came inside and ate breakfast instead.
Maybe a bit of housework today.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy all y'all. It's fantastic Friday! It was a bit sticky this morning, but only wispy cloud fragments in the sky, despite the Weather Channel claiming it was CLEAR.
I headed out about 5:40 and the sun was nearly over the horizon as I returned home about an hour later. I picked up the pace a bit this morning, as my muscles seemed well rested, so my walk took 15 or 20 minutes less than usual, though I went the same distance. No breaks or sit downs this morning and no long waits at traffic lights either.
My wine club finally got back to me, and gave me a $20 credit for the "bad" substitution in that one order, and, coincidentally, they announced a summer special of 15 bottles of assorted red wines for $89.95. As I had another $5 in credit (points built up from prior orders) I ordered one more crate of wine, to bring my collection closer to filling my wine racks. I had already let it go down a bit before the pandemic, and then in the first few months, I didn't feel I could afford to order more, but still continued to consume what I had on hand, so the rack was looking pretty bare by the time I felt solvent enough to buy more, and they have had some really good specials during the last month or so that I have been taking advantage of.
I know. First world issues and not anything that anyone really needs to worry about, but I feel I will be back to having a better selection now when deciding what wine to drink on the nights I choose to drink wine. And, first world problem or not, that's one less minor anxiety in the current anxiety cake, so I'll take it. LOL
Might do a bit of laundry today, but tomorrow is more likely.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy all y'all. It's satisfying Saturday! I got my walk in early and have been sipping my tea for a while now. The cats are whining for food but it's not quite time and they will just have to wait.
Definitely laundry today.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwKsUs4Bg3c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbH7xithNJc
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Howdy all y'all. It's sumptuous Sunday! Got my walk in this morning despite the sticky, slightly mist (dusty?) atmosphere after last night's storms. I felt like a damp washcloth all over by the time I got home.
Our power (and many others) was out for about 5 hours yesterday, but finally came on to give us light to eat our late dinner of Domino's pizza by.
Not what I had planned for dinner, but it was far enough away to have power. Dinner was late, just a bit after 9:00.
Today, assuming no more power issues, that laundry I had intended to do yesterday.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
Everything in today's videos is vegan!
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GardenKatGardens wrote: »
Wow, no power for 5 hours is a long time in the summer! I think the laundry will forgive you for not getting its bath!
Fortunately, the power went out during the deluge, which brought very pleasant temperatures. J and I manually opened the garage door, set up camp chairs in there, and sat there enjoying mother nature, reading our electronic books, and (in my case) having some of the wine that I had intended to have with the eye of round roast that got rescheduled for my Sunday dinner. But worry not, as I have more wine for today.
I finished off that bottle waiting for the pizza we finally ordered, once we determined which of our pizza places might have power, as the outage was pretty widespread.
The first one we tried was right on the edge of the outage and we couldn't tell for sure, from the outage map, whether it was inside the dead zone or outside but the website/app would not let me check out so we figured they were in the zone with us. Most of the nearby restaurants we might have ordered other food from were in the dead zone too. So we looked again and I figured our Domino's was outside and might have power. And they did, so we managed to not have to eat cold beans and crackers for dinner.
I imagine if the tomatoes end up all ripening at once that your neighbor and/or Jack's family would eat some.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Well this will be the easiest 5 day challenge EVER. If there were an option to bypass this silly challenge and just roll on the the next one, I would, but I have to respond each day to this one before I get a different one.
The app I use to automatically record and keep track of my blood glucose receives my readings as soon as I use their glucose monitor to take a reading, several times a day.
But, there are also automated 5 day challenges. The one that was presented to me today was to increase water intake by replacing one sugary drink each day with water.
I have been diabetic for over 10 years. I don't drink sugary drinks, ever.
In one sense then, I CAN'T meet this challenge, as I have nothing to replace, and I really don't even want sugary drinks, and haven't wanted them in years.
But in another sense I automatically meet it. I guess I will ponder drinking a (made with real sugar!) Mountain Dew every day, for 5 days, and then "decide" to have water instead. Then I can log it as having "replaced" a sugary drink with water.
I guess I could speak to one of the available coaches and point out that this challenge is probably ridiculous to a lot of us "old hand" diabetics, but I can see where it could help someone new at this rollercoaster if they haven't managed to give up all their sugary drinks yet.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy all y'all. It's marvelous Monday! It was a bit sticky out, but the breeze was nice and the temperature decent.
Today will be the first day I need to "replace" a sugary drink (that I never drink anyway) with water, so I must remember to ponder Mountain Dew, and then decide that water would be better.
I need to fold the laundry in the dryer. Maybe...
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy all y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! A bit sticky out there again but that's normal for this time of year. I got my walk in, breakfast eaten, dishwasher loaded and running, and that laundry in the dryer is still waiting patiently to be folded and put away. It's just towels and such so no real hurry.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Today's wine delivery.
I do have room for one more crate plus one bottle, but unless my wine club has another really crazy sale I think I am pretty well stocked now, having bought three big crates over the past two months or so.
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Howdy all y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! A bit sticky out, and they are calling for rain later. I may try to get out in a bit and pick a few blueberries.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy all y'all. Heading out to the Asian/Latino farmer's market. Wish me luck!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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If that box tortoise finds your tomatoes, you can kiss the ones it can reach goodbye. They have a nasty habit of taking ONE BIG BITE from each tomato they can reach and then moving on to the next. We had all sorts of problems with them in the unfenced garden when I as growing up. When we caught one, we would re-home it far enough away that we hoped it would not find its way back.
Well, I made it to and from the market and, being early on a weekday, it wasn't crowded at all. I haven't been in MONTHS because it used to always be a madhouse in there, packed with people, long lines, and impossible to social distance. Most people were wearing masks, though a few vendors and staff doing heavy work had their noses out.
I could understand that, as I don't wear a mask at all when doing my exercise walk, but just stay away from any people I encounter.
I got what I needed and got out and on the way home. I am glad it wasn't as busy as I feared, as I didn't like staying away so long. I went because there are a few things that I seem to ONLY be able to get there, and one of those items had reached the critical point, as in maybe ONE use left in the last container. I bought two, so they should last a while as we only use a tablespoon or two at a time.
Produce prices seemed to be especially high, so I didn't buy much along there.
Maybe I will actually fold those items in the dryer. Or maybe they will stay there until I actually need to dry some more clothes! LOL.
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Howdy all y'all. It's fabulous Friday! Warm and a bit sticky out there when I was walking, but it's nice here in front of the fan now with my hot tea. Breakfast is done, the clean dishes put away from the dishwasher, and the breakfast dishes are in there waiting for enough friends to make it worthwhile to run the next load.
Today. Today I will fold the things in the dryer.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy all y'all. It's satisfying Saturday! Happy Fourth of July! I think I may have heard some distant fireworks last night, but I had a fan blowing for white noise. I expect there will be more neighborhood fireworks tonight.
The cats graciously let me sleep in until almost 6:30 and I decided to take the day off from walking. My Fitbit thinks I have my 5 days of exercise for the week and I am not about to disillusion it and tell it that the swimming it thinks I did was actually picking blueberries. Picking blueberries IS very mild exercise, but not on par with swimming.
I had savory French toasted grilled cheese for breakfast, with sausage links. That was quite tasty.
Later I need to get the potato salad and deviled eggs made, and the broccoli casserole. The barbecue for me is heat and eat burnt ends and pieces in sauce, but I also need to dry fry or bake some tofu to get a bit of a crust on it and make some of my not quite face meltingly hot barbecue sauce so J can have barbecued tofu.
I think there is a can of corn in the cabinet too. J likes that on holidays. Just corn, nothing fancy at all done with it, and OFF the cob, and canned corn is actually the preference, though frozen will do in a pinch. I will also make a small dish of vegetarian baked beans.
And I have a small pan of grilled vegetables I can heat up and a small dish of zesty au gratin potatoes to heat up. That will have plenty of vegetarian options, several with a high protein component, so J can pick and choose. I expect a small sampling of everything vegetarian will be the end plate there.
While we are eating, I can have my cherry blueberry crumble baking in the oven and we can each have a small serving, with ice cream, for a red, white, and blue dessert.
And I might actually really fold and put away the laundry in the dryer.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Final Fourth of July dinner:
Home made honey sriracha barbecued tofu for J, next to broccoli cheese casserole, me trying to get close to J's uncle's recipe for the casserole. I got pretty close.
Home made potato salad and deviled eggs. Grilled squash and onions. The grilled veggies were OK, but pretty pricy for such a small pan of them. Won't be buying that again.
Home made slow baked beans.
Burnt ends and pieces in a slightly spicy sauce, prepackaged from Kroger. This was quite nice and I may well buy it again.
My dinner, as served.
Wine, of course, a nice Malbec.
Mostly home made cherry blueberry crumble. The cherry part underneath is a can of cherry pie filling. The blueberry part came from our blueberry bushes, and I made the crumble topping. We will eat some of it later with vanilla ice cream.
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Howdy all y'all. It's revenge of the fifth!
If it's what I consider a "food holiday" then we usually celebrate it with food. Normally, we might have had a guest or two to help eat it, but not in current times. I had enough food for guests, and there was that can of corn and the zesty au gratin potato casserole on standby, but both can wait for another meal.
I got really close to the right recipe on the broccoli casserole. Considering that J's uncle M gave a very vague "recipe" I felt really proud of myself. I think uncle M cooks without recipes, as I do, so I really didn't have too much trouble filling in the gaps, after asking J a few questions about the appearance of the finished product.
I have never tasted uncle M's casserole, but M's mother (J's maternal grandmother) was a great cook and I remember especially that she used to make great stuffed eggs. We couldn't call them deviled eggs in her house. She was married to a preacher.
J's other grandmother provided the potato salad recipe. I never met her as she passed on many years ago, before I met J, but her potato salad lives on. It's very simple and doesn't take long to make. I would want to sometimes add mustard, but she didn't and J doesn't care much for mustard. I sometimes stir some into my serving.
I used way too many cracker crumbs, but J said that the casserole tasted right, though it was a bit dryer than uncle M's casserole. I will get it closer, and maybe nail it next time.
The crumble is to die for, or, in my case, being diabetic, perhaps to die from. The cherry pie filling and blueberries paired really well, and that sweet, crisp, crumble topping (1 part packed brown sugar, 1 part butter, softened or melted, 2 parts flour mixed until a somewhat damp sand texture, then crumbled over the fruit filling) would be great on any fruit. We each had a small serving later yesterday afternoon, warmed, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
I don't need to make that crumble often. I guess we'll be eating it at least today and tomorrow to finish it off.
I need to get to the regular grocery store soon. Maybe tomorrow instead of a walk.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdZxLetJSZg
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Howdy all y'all. It's marvelous Monday! I have been to Kroger AND Publix. Kroger didn't have any paper towels. I still need to get to PetSmart for cat supplies. I will probably head out in just a moment when I finish this mug of tea.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RySuLKy22WI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlwn6Uc5pCQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqfelz53EyI
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