Beautiful Seehe. Thanks for sharing!

Bisland, don't mess around - evacuate when advised to!!!
Seehee, gorgeous pictures! But how is your ankle? Ice-20 minutes on, 20 minutes off. There are a number of places out west that I have on my bucket list and this park needs to get on the list! We always went to the ocean on vacation, and I was surprised how much I liked Santa Fe and Taos.
Kate, even though it was as if I had to be forced into it, kicking and screaming, I now find that logging food is critical to keep me on track. Once you have been doing it for a while it gets quicker, because most of us do have a relatively small circle of foods.
Snoozie, enjoy the day shift.
Speaking of oceans, while we still have power we are watching the wrath of Sandy playing havoc on our beloved barrier islands. Hopefully Merobi and all of our coastal hatters are safely evacuated.
When our kids were little, losing power was always an adventure, we would play games, a monopoly marathon, one year and a card tournament another time. But now the kids are gone and it is just the two of us and MIL. I really don't know what she will do when the tv goes off. Although I won't mind, because she is driving me nuts telling me to do every goofy thing that the tv tells her to do, when I sign off, I am going around the house to take pictures of everything for insurance in case a tree comes flying from across the street and knocks down our house. I guess I should take pictures of the three of us and post them on shutterfly, so my kids can prove that we were in the house, because if the house is destroyed I am pretty sure we would be too.
Although freaky things can happen. In Anne Tyler's newest book a tree is the reason that the main character is a widower.Speaking of freaky things, a young coworker is in Hawaii on a trip with her parents and when she told me where she was staying I told her to be aware of where she would need to go in case of a tsunami and suggested she go up the hill to the landfill. Fortunately, the tsunami was very weak, but she would have heard the sirens and I hope she followed my evacuation advice!
The only thing that has me concerned is being in this house, with no tv and listening to MIL that I will be sorely tempted to eat anything and everything and won't have access to my MFP pals to help me avoid the temptation.
Until then I am going to taste my new iced tea. I bought loose tea and empty tea bags and used my K cup machine. I am psyched that it worked, because there are so many loose teas that smell amazing and I have never brewed loose tea at home.
Be safe Hatters! Janet

Just checking in to say that we have weathered Sandy. Most of the town lost power and still don't have power, but we have been good with electric, cable and internet service. Still waiting to hear news of family members who live next to rivers. Praying for them and for everyone so impacted. Hope to hear from MeRoBi and other Hatters in Sandy's path, a very wide path!
This morning since I could not get out, I put some music on and did my own makeshift body pump class, when I was cleaning out my closet I found a pair of 3 lb weights and I used them, for most of the exercises, when I did squats I used our fire extinguisher for weight. Not as good as a class, but got me moving. Janet

Good morning everyone. I hope everyone is doing well this morning, and all are safe. Here is middle Ga all is well, just too dry and very cold for us. I have been extremely busy, with all the normal work and family things, adding that this is the end of Breast Cancer Awareness month tonight the "best night of the year" according to my children. At least all of our big programs are over, yesteday being the last day. I don't know about the rest of the world, but here in the south, we can't have any type of gathering without food being involved. That throws me off all my good intentions more than anything. If you don't eat what is being offered it is a true insult. The only good thing is we also added a 1.25 mile walk to one of the events yesterday.
As long as I keep myself from touching the candy tonight, all will be good. I eat one, I know I am done for.

Hope eveyone has a good day, I will try my best to remember Snooozie's rules about candy today. :-)

It's not a white lie Tonya. You are having tummy troubles. You don't want it to stay that size and eating all that food is trouble! lol!:laugh:

Enjoy your day hatters, and let's just say no to the candy and move right away from it!

A good Halloween food possibility. I am going to stop at Target tomorrow on my way to the office. They will have all of their Halloween goodies at ½ price. Most of it is candy and I won’t be getting that. But they have also stocked some healthy treats which were not selling very well and sure to be available pretty cheaply. They have large bags of single serving little pretzels, 50 calories and perfect for scooping up salsa, and single serving kettle corn popcorn, 100 calorie bags. Both of these treats are the kinds of things that I can eat a single serving-IF I have a single serving size bag. They also won’t be going stale anytime soon, so I will stock up.
In the past, I have not had trouble with Halloween itself, but it would usually symbolize the start of holiday weight gain. When the kids wouldn't eat most of their candy, the week after Halloween I would because it would talk to me in ever louder voices! November is filled with family and work birthday celebrations, our anniversary, Thanksgiving and then onto December with the calories of the holiday celebrations.
I decided I need a plan to deal with it all, so I can end 2012 no longer obese and for the rest of my life I will be able to say that I used to be obese, but I have not been since 2012! Only 3 more pounds to get to that magical number. So I am working on my healthy holiday plans and looking forward to sharing my efforts and hearing of your efforts to ending this year on a fitness high.