Ages 70+

I have the opposite problem with pants. My inseam is 32. Regular pants are 31 and tall sizes are 33. I get tall sizes and hem them. Lately, I have been getting boot cut fleece lined pants from RBX. Website says it is a 31 inseam, but I have bought 3 pairs and they are all 32 and perfect length on me.

Hope you get over your cold quickly.

Bought some cans of diet pepsi in the mini size. Trying to cut down on drinking diet pepsi as I know it is not a good drink choice but is a habit that I am struggling with. The smaller size should help (hopefully).

We have a herd of elk that have been showing up on our field right across from the house every evening for the past week. So nice to see. Have noticed that vehicles are slowing down when they spot them. Have counted 24.

Yes lots of viruses. Wish I could get better and exercise!!!
Elk are amazing and so majestic. I hope they can do well in the East.

Just saw in our local paper that three area schools shut down this week because of flu. Evidently, it is rampant.
I was a slug today. Stayed up too late last night and was just worthless all day. I am going to bed early so I can try to do better tomorrow. It’s raining, so no outside exercise but we need the rain to control a couple of wildfires in a nearby county. Tomorrow I plan to tackle the mess in my laundry room and drop off more donations.

I should order a seed catalogue and make some plans. My local seed supplier went to some gratitude based plan and no longer sells seeds. They give them away, instead! Sounds noble, but I am unsure how I really am supposed to find their seeds.
Feeling slightly better today, just trying to not push myself.
If I watched TV news I would want to crawl under a rock. Just keeping up on the internet is bad enough.
Rain all day has turned to snow now.
View from the train last week-Hudson River and Catskills

Gorgeous photography! The colors in that picture are so saturated! How do you do that?

Grandson #6 told me 8 children were absent from his first grade class yesterday. There are 24 kids in the class. Seems to me this is a high enough percentage to shut down And scrub that school. I am eating zicam and airborne in case he is incubating something nasty. I had him and his older brother today. Older brother had a basketball game. 5 out of 13 kids were out sick for that! I have been washing my hands like crazy.

I cant decide if I want to do my Monday weigh in or not. I haven’t been all that good….

So cold here at close to minus 30 celcius. Another couple of days and we should be making our way out of this deep freeze (hopefully). Still haven't booked my trip for this year. The company I was looking at for the tour of Quebec still doesn't show guaranteed departures for June which is when I like to travel. May have to change my plans and go back to the maritime provinces with the same company I traveled with last year for my Newfoundland trip. They have one that is for Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton which sounds like one I would enjoy. Their tours have guaranteed departures. Will leave it a few more days then book as I want to book my air fare at the same time.

Thought about a trip to Europe but with our dollar tanking I think I will stick to travel domestically.

Had some sweet bread and butter pickles with my sandwich for lunch then thought to check the label on the jar for sugar....8 pieces equals 6 grams of sugar! So much sugar in things that I forget to check. Overall I think I'm doing pretty good with watching my sugar intake but got derailed with a few pickles.

I have been to the green gables house! Also to Cape Breton which is so beautiful. But a long car ride for us. Cannot believe we drove 1000 miles with two kids, but it was one of our best family vacations ever.
Trying to not eat much, but it is so hard!

Still cold. School buses are not running due to the extreme weather. With the windchill it is close to -40C.

Did a bit of research and it looks like the recommendation for pre diabetic is no more than 6 teaspoons of sugar per day. It's not really straight forward though as it depends on calories consumed per day and your overall health, weight, etc. Also the amount excludes natural sugars (like in milk which has 12 grams per cup for 2%). Thought it was interesting. I am under that amount even with the pickle incident but I can see that adding any type of sugar treat...like a cookie, cake, etc, would put me over I'm sure. Weight is still staying the same.

Have to go to town this afternoon as need to pick up a prescription from the drugstore and also get some bird seed as we are almost out. Birds are really going through the seeds during this cold spell.

I did switch to stevia for tea, but still want sugar for coffee. I would rather have no sugar than artificial stuff.
We have seen a lot of birds at our feeder, too!
We have seen an awful lot of Canada—Maritimes, Ontario, Quebec, Sask., Alberta and the mountain part of BC. Still have not seen Newfoundland, the area around Vancouver, or parts farther north. And somehow never made it to Manitoba when we lived in Minnesota.
Scale finally liked me better and I finally got a walk in! And saw a bald eagle.

Finally out of the deep freeze here and it feels so good.

Off to town this morning as didn't go the other day due to extreme cold. Nice sunny day and going to enjoy it.

So many people in town yesterday. Don't often see that but I think people we just happy to feel the warmer weather.

Like corn chowder but haven't made it for awhile. I'm sure you will get a good workout cleaning the mildew...not a pleasant task I'm sure.