Ages 70+

Cold and snowy here. Could not walk in it. Wish I had cleaned windows last month!
Made a really good kielbasa and sauerkraut slow cooker meal with my homemade sauerkraut. The recipe is going into the rotation.Also a simple Ukrainian carrot and apple salad. Tasty and different and good for you.
Did a teeny bit of interior decorating today. If the sun comes out will try to add the lights
outside soon.

Left my house at 7:30 this morning and got home at 3:30. Christmas shopping. I finished the granddaughter and halfway done on the baby. The six year old called me and asked if he could go shopping with me to pick out his presents. I am
Fine with that, so I guess we will go after school one day.

A church nearby has a display of 130 nativity sets from all over the world. Tomorrow is the last night so I need to try to get to that. I put up a tree and hung a wreath on the door. That’s about all the Christmas this house is going to get this year. I still need to devote myself to unpacking boxes.

Your kraut recipe sounds delicious. Fermented foods are so good for us. My husband had cancer in his small intestine 13 years ago and fermented foods were on the list of foods to heal the gut.

I feel like my legs get so cold on walks while my upper body is toasty warm in a big down coat. RBX put their fleece leggings on sale today, so I ordered the bootcut ones. I have some that are not fleece lined and practically live in them. Hoping fleece lined ones will help me to walk longer. I wont have to come in because I am cold. Your walk in the woods sounds lovely. Do you see a lot of wildlife?

See wildlife a lot in our area. Moose, deer and elk are frequently seen going through our land and even up to our yard passing through. Always nice to see them. Get a few calls every year from people wanting to hunt on our property but we always say no and our property is posted as no hunting or trespassing.

Doing Christmas decorating in the house today. Time to put up my tree and a few other room decorations.

Put my tabletop tree up yesterday along with my Christmas village ornaments. Decided to set everything up on a folding table that I had bought during the summer. Big mistake. Heard a crash at about midnight. My cat knocked the tree off the table onto the floor along with a couple of my Lemax village pieces. The tree is quite heavy but so is the cat. What a mess. So back to re-decorating this morning. Getting rid of the table and will put the tree up onto a smaller end table. Will use another end table to set my village up onto but will be using the bottom part of the table so the village will not be too far from the floor. Having pets can be challenging at times.

Down a half a pound this morning so happy about that. Sure is coming off slowly.

Took all my breakable ornaments off the tree and put on some unbreakable ones that I had. They are quite pretty wooden balls in gold and red. They are large so I thought they wouldn't look good on a tabletop tree but they actually look nice. No one took the slightest interest in the tree last night so I think it all had to do with the big table I originally put the tree on. It left too much room for the curious cats to explore.

You have the right attitude about exercise and mindful eating.

Cold has settled in here again (-25 C) but should only last a couple of days and then slowly warm up to around
-5 C later in the week.

I like the cutoff idea. But today was not one of those days for me due to an evening party. And such a gloomy day so no walking. Hoping tomorrow will be better.

More gloomy weather here. Was tied to the house until almost evening waiting for packages. Then did some shopping.
No walk, but I did do my weights at home.
It will probably be a fairly quiet Christmas here too. Was hoping daughter and family would visit after Christmas but she is having some medical problems and she might not be able to travel.

Well done, Cat. Nice feeling to have control back.

Melody, hope your daughter's medical issues are overcome. Lots of stress on your end I'm sure.

Christmas prep is pretty much finished and I can now concentrate on some house cleaning the next couple of days. Before we know it, Christmas will be in the past as it goes by so quickly.

I had a mini goal to reach the 170's by the end of November and have finally reached it. Weighed in at 179.6 so just barely there. I think the treadmill is helping me. I try to use it every day and just do brisk walking but it keeps me mindful of my eating also. I try to cut back a bit on portion size....so far I am happy with results. Glad to have the treadmill as a tool to use during the winter months. Once spring is here, will be nice to continue walking outside.

Starting some cleaning today. Need to pull out the stove and fridge to clean out behind. Easy to do as they are both on wheels. Bit of laundry to tackle this afternoon. It has warmed up here to a balmy -11 C. Dogs are enjoying a bit more time outside. The forecast for Christmas Eve is close to 0 C so should be good driving weather for daughter and family (as long as we don't get any freezing rain).