Tomorrow I'm finally starting my salad for brunch plan. The tofu is in the air fryer and I'm prepping a dressing. I'm going to keep it simple by making 1 dressing each week and using boxes of washed and ready greens. I think staying away from bread in the morning will go a long way to staving off my cravings. I hope so!

Our Indian style meal was delish. Tonight I think we'll have the moo shu wraps.

The house still stinks of skunk. The 2 best rooms are my craft room and the spare bedroom. I'm keeping both doors shut. We're going to give the dogs another wash to see if we can take the scent down a notch or two.

It is definitely starting to feel like spring. Another nice day out there.

Radar's eyes are good, they were looking better after a few hours and we haven't noticed any problems. Ruby got hit worse and was drooling on day 1 but was good the next morning.

Sorry your week was rough. Is there any relief in sight?

My salads for brunch were a success. I made a peanut dressing and had them Thai style this week. I prepped chopped peppers and shredded carrots and had the greens ready to go so it was super fast each day. I think I'll make the red wine vinaigrette next.

Here's the rug I've been playing with on the loom with some leftover wool I have.

My friends from Italy.

pickleball friends

Friends who were stationed in Italy with us

Hi Carla - yes, house is empty. We did so much in the last month getting it ready that we are done for a while.

A small salad with sesame dressing was always included in Japan. I loved it but could not do a big salad for breakfast. i would rather have a green smoothie. Speaking of smoothies have you ever tried Ka’Chave protein powder? It is pricey but vegan and no fake sugars I make one every morning with the vanilla flavor and I add 1/2-1 tsp of instant espresso or coffee ( Sometimes decaf or with caffeine). Just add water and ice cubes in blender and whip it up. I was drinking Chike coffee protein powder but it has fake sugars and not vegan

I had a great cabbage, sunflower seed, almond salad with “mochi rice balls” from Trader Joe’s for lunch today. I loved croutons before diagnosed with Celiac’s and these add that extra crunch to a salad.

Beautiful walk this am with Brooks and Dogs. Obi is getting so good in the leash. Still slaughters the lambs.

I can’t wait to see the rug!

Brooks is finished with the military. Still”moon lighting”

If everything (paperwork for Federal clearance) goes smoothly he can start end of March. I am hoping it does not and we go in April.

Beautiful spring walk with the Cleo. She is so much easier to walk than the boys.

yesterday we went to the botanic garden for a class on Ichiban-ya orchid arrangements . it was so fun. pics mine without big green leaves

Do you press your tofu before air frying? Found my tofu press.

oh and I got into snacking last night unfortunately. I did say I'd update you. On the positive side of things, my week of salads went really well and I upped my greens for the week considerably. I also got on the treadmill 4 days which is up from what I've been doing, but not as active as I want to be.

Happy Friday!

I've thought about booking a stylist or at least going into a few stores I like on a quiet day to get some help putting things together. I'm interested to hear how that goes. The way I'm feeling now I want to lose some weight before I do that. I don't need to be at my final goal weight, but I do want to be down a full size or two before I invest in clothing again.

I never went beyond maybe 2 batches of my yogurt. It's great to hear that it does indeed get thicker and better. I just found I didn't use up enough to keep it going, but maybe if I get back on a yogurt kick I'll try it again. The lemon & herbs mix sounds fantastic.

One of our plantage meals came with pickled red onions and I used them for a few of my salads. So good. And so easy to do really, I need to make some up again. If I have a spare onion I will make some up while I'm doing another batch of baked tofu this morning.

I had a good day yesterday, getting in my exercise and not snacking at all.

Hi! I hope everyone is having a great weekend. We started off with a vanilla coffee protein smoothie and a 1.5 mile walk. I went fishing. Caught 3 angel fish from my 30 gallon tank and moved them to the 50 gallon tank. Then caught 6 bristlenose pleco and they went to local aquarium store.
Still struggling with chocolate addiction. My black bean soup turned out amazing this time. Brooks cooked the black beans in the instant pot with chipolte peppers, cumin, garlic and onion. He adds a bit of water and usually I drain it and then add better than bouillon and water. This time I used the liquid from the beans, first sautéing a mirepoix mix, then adding a jar of chunky salsa ( we can get freshly prepared salsa in San Antonio) . That was it and so good.

Made a few more TY cards. Have a workshop next Saturday for spring and Easter cards.

I will try air fried tofu next week.

Wow, I didn't know you were such a marvel at fishing, Donna! ;) 🐟️🐟️🐟️ Lovely cards. I especially love the first one.

Mihani, that breakfast sounds really good. I miss my instant pot oats. I enjoyed mixing in all sorts of grains and even lentils in the mix.

This week's meals are spaghetti squash & pasta with not meatballs & parm, Vegetable 'Fried' Quinoa & giant pot sticker, and Lemon Rosemary White bean soup with spring salad.

My rug is off the loom but yet to be hemmed. I'm giving myself a bit of a break from weaving so that I don't push too hard and then end up not weaving for a long time.

Our weather has been warming up, and our daffodils are getting ready to bloom. We even have little miniature daffodils that have already bloomed. I'm getting the urge to garden but it is still too soon. I ordered these birds for the garden. Goofy and endearing somehow. They are around a foot tall.

I've had those garden birds in my "save for later" cart for ages now. I happened to notice that they were 36% off when I was checking out yesterday. I'll let you know what I think of them in person.

I ordered some of the Ka'Chava powder Donna recommended. I've realized that I need a quick and appealing option for breakfast when I don't feel up to making or eating a salad.