40+ Club : Where the Cool Kids Are

Hello everyone. I have done 30 min on the elliptical this morning (last 3 mornings) and went out and weeded in the garden. It felt great to get it done, then mowed a lot and helped my hubby get the hose drug out to the garden, quite a ways from the house. He is getting some of his tractors and saw mill ready to go to a local tractor show. He and Jared love to go each year, so hopefully it will be nice and have lots of participation. We have seen 3 times now, bear poop in our yard. It makes me nervous. We have a raspberry patch and they are still white and brown berries on it. I am jokingly saying he keeps checking to see when they're ripe, when he probably really is. I really don't want to come close to a bear. Now everytime I go outside I am looking all around for it.
Hope you all have a great weekend.

"Day: 41 of P90X/P90X+ hybrid Kenpo Cardio Plus"=Done!

Larro, never hear of parched corn? looks good though. And yes a bear does poop in my yard. Still haven't seen him though, thank goodness.
It's a super beautiful day here again today. Tomorrow is going to be a washout though. I tried 2 places to pick strawberries, but they were all picked out at 7:30 am. they had a radio station there at one of them yesterday and got so many people out, there are no more berries for a few days now. I got the stuff to make jelly though so when they're ripe I will be ready.
I went to a card class at a friends house today, I hadn't been in a few months. Had a nice time. Had a piece of cake she made that was very yummy and within my calories for the day. No snacking tonight for me though.
I planted some flowers, dalias (not sure of the spelling) you have to dig them up every fall and plant them in the spring in our area. They were a relative's mothers, and was weeding them out. they are some kind of oblong bulb. Anyway, we had just tilled the garden, and it being later planting them than they should be, I just stuck them in where some cukes didn't come up for this year and see what happens with them. The relative I got them from had them for awhile and hadn't planted them either. They were trying to grow right in the box. Poor flowers.
Glad of the good report from the eye dr. Peeps. enjoy your trip.
Welcome to all the new folks, logging really helps. Keep track of your calories, and knowing we are all in a similar spot, trying every day to make good food choices. I have been logging for almost 6 months now. Yea.

Nataliegetfit wrote: »

Larro, never hear of parched corn? looks good though. And yes a bear does poop in my yard. Still haven't seen him though, thank goodness.

When I was researching 1718 North Carolina, I learned there was only one public gristmill in the colony. Rich folks had small hand mills, but most people had to grind their corn by hand with wooden mortar and pestle. Eating bread made from this was a risky prospect, so most people parched their corn. You can just crunch it, crush it or add it to soups. The Indians had taught them how to do it. I learned that it was still a common practice when Mamma was a little girl. I had always wanted to try it, and I had some corn that had got too hard to boil. It is very good, but if you try it, just eat small amounts. I went a little crazy for several days, and it played havoc with my digestion.






I got three rows of Crimson Sweet melons planted this morning before work. Then mowed the graveyard after work. Or at least most of it. A big thunderstorm gave me an early shower. It's a 1/4 mile down to the graveyard, so I was soaked when I got in.

My 2nd planting of peas, corn and Sugar Baby melons are all coming up nicely. But the Armenian cucumbers have only one here or there, and the squash and Charleston Gray melons have not made an appearance at all.

I'm off tomorrow and we are thinking of going shopping. Had an idea of going to Panama City, but it's just too close to the 4th. It will be a madhouse down there. So likely going to Marianna instead.

Welcome to the new guys and hello to everyone else.


Hope everyone is well,

Larro

since July 11th is "core synergistics" AND my Spartan race, it's unlikely i'd do both. so..."Day: 55 of P90X/P90X+ hybrid Core Synergistics"=Done! I know, it's all out of order, but this is how it needed to happen.

allenpriest wrote: »

Larro thst looks like a barn swallow nest.

The nest is right, but the birds are drab looking. Not near the color of a barn swallow. And the split tail is not as pronounced either. But then there are tons of swallows, all with differing airspeed velocity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2R3FvS4xr4

I would love to join! I'm 45 years old, married, mother of two and grandmother to one. I have a daughter who is 27 and a son almost 20. I'm hopping back on the bandwagon looking to lose 20 or so pounds.

gam3rguy wrote: »

glad it's not leg day. went on a trail run with bro yesterday. I messed up the tracking because I paused it at a water fountain and forgot to un pause it for a bit so it didn't track part of it. it counted 9.63, but I think we went a little better than 10 miles.

"Day: 43 of P90X/P90X+ hybrid Back & Biceps & Ab Ripper X"=Done!

I hate leg day lol today is back and biceps for me

"Day: 44 of P90X/P90X+ hybrid Plyometrics"=Done!

I love walking! It'll be especially fabulous when you are walking in Europe!

Hello everyone, happy hump day. I got up to go pick strawberries again today and they were closed, so I got some out of my cousin's fridge that she had picked a few days ago and made strawberry rhubarb jam, two batches .My house smelled so good. I will have to go pick another day. Got a lot of laundry done and cleaned out some old freezer burned food out of the freezer before the garbage truck comes. I finished a mini quilt for a gift, still need to do the binding. Has been a productive day, but the house is a mess. I got my elliptical done too, so that was great. I usually do my excercising first, but did it before lunch. I was trying to get the picking done before the rain today. Anyway, I hope you all had a great day.

Well it's Canada Day here, so not much got done exercise way. I did ride my bike home from work (15 min) since I left it there yesterday and I visited with a friend and then primed 6 huge book shelves and primed and painted a dresser I bought so it was productive. Oh and I drank beer! It's weird having a Wednesday off, tomorrow it's back to work. Wish sometimes the holiday didn't have to be celebrated on the actual day!

Newbie here. I will be 46 next week. I wax and wane on my fitness. In 2001 I lost almost 50 pounds with Weight Watchers, and other than the period of time around the birth of my 2nd child, I have maintained my weight pretty well. But I am always looking to be more fit. I started running in 2008 and have done so off and on since then. O am currently in an "on" phase. I get motivated in the summer when it is warmer, and light outside longer, but then my interest fades when it gets cold, dark and rainy.