DreamOn145 wrote: »

There is something about August that feels like the beginning of Fall to me.

I agree. It's always been like that for me. The shortening days, the angle of the sun... a few yellow leaves here and there..

We were gone a couple of days last week and I had some other scheduling conflicts.. so didn't get to the gym as many days as usual. It's hard when it's hot; even tho the place is air-conditioned, after 30 minutes I am so drenched in sweat I just don't care anymore. Can't make up for 50 years of unfitness in just a month or two, I guess.

Meanwhile, the crepe myrtle trees are blooming..

Cris when I was doing home health in Mobile, Alabama I used to say that if I have an accident and am killed I will know when I come to that I am in Hell if I see the Crepe Myrtles blooming. lol Nearly everything else is burnt out by now and then we will have the Fall flowers, but those Crepe Myrtles just keep on blooming right in the midst of all this heat! I have two in my yard here.

Personally I love the impending Fall. From the first football game until the beginning of the New Year, this is my time! I am loving this increased energy that I suddenly have, something about the Fall stirs my creative energies and I am looking at not one but three painting projects - including an armoire in my art studio and a 48"x60" canvas that is sitting in my garage and I do not believe I managed to drag down here when we moved. I have the picture in mind for it, still debating on the armoire, and going to do a small painting first to clear the cobwebs out of my creative drive! I can't wait!

I went out with friends for lunch today.
I thought I'd done pretty good... afterwards I went shopping for awhile.
It was HOT; 96-97 degrees.

I'd had water with my meal but at the end, the waiter asked if anybody wanted a "to go" drink, and it didn't have to be water. So I asked for a diet coke. I thought it tasted weird, but everything tastes weird to me now. I figured, it wasn't coke, it was probably Pepsi. ((shrug))

Now I think I was given regular sugary coke, because when I got home, I measured my blood sugar and it was 360.
WTH

I'd gone to the gym this morning, I had a Ruben sandwich for lunch. I didn't eat all the bread, didn't put dressing on my salad.

However, after lunch, I was in the fabric store I walked past a display of candy.

I didn't buy any, but that must've done it. *weak laugh*

I am very annoyed: it had to be the drink. (I don't drink much diet soda. Maybe 1-2 a week)


Then I go to make dinner.. grab a pan, cut up the chicken, start sauteeing the chicken and oh look!!!
There are little black flecks on the chicken that are not pepper: they are dead ants that had been exploring the pan. I didn't see them because the non-stick inside is black.. Yes I washed them off, washed the pan.

Somehow I just wasn't very hungry.

It's just one wild and crazy adventure after another!!!!

And.. here's how our drive looks now..although this is facing the opposite direction.

Welcome, I'm somewhat new too. I'm 65, married 41 yrs, n have 200 to lose. Please add me to your list. Great group of people!! Gayle Minneapolis

so excited, dropped another lb this week and my waist is down 1 inch.

Hello. 66 yrs old and retired and on the track to better health. Those are gorgeous pictures, I live in Washington State we get beautiful falls too, except we still have a lot of green evergreen trees!

We're north of Raleigh; just outside the city limits, in Wake County. About 20 minutes from the airport.

It's perfect, because it feels "rural" here, but shopping is conveniently close!