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  • BigDfromNJ
    BigDfromNJ Posts: 154 Member

    Beautiful day for a hike, and doing some online Christmas shopping! (I like to get done early!)

  • Jthanmyfitnesspal
    Jthanmyfitnesspal Posts: 3,823 Member
    edited November 3

    @mtaratoot : WRT Garmin HR while swimming. I push the watch a bit up my wrist and snug it up. I've compared it to a rough count using my finger on my neck at the end of a few hard sets, and it seems to be OK (still not 100% sure). There are a few odd bumps in the data, but it looks OK over all.

    I posted on Reddit that I can't get my HR very high when swimming and got a lot of responses!

    Here’s a typical Garmin workout report. HR is in red (left), pace is in blue (right, min/100yd).

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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,444 Member

    I’m curious what people said.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,444 Member

    oh dear.

    Spring has gone salty today.

    Might be time for a board break.

    At least it’s not EBay. I had a few enforced board breaks there in my day, lol.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,314 Community Helper
    edited November 4
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48822605#Comment_48822605

    Salty Spring is pretty fun, NGL. 😉

    ETA: I feel like I'm getting a little crispy myself here lately, too. 😆

  • Jthanmyfitnesspal
    Jthanmyfitnesspal Posts: 3,823 Member

    @springlering62 : Here’s a link to my Reddit post with responses. I don’t link you need an account to see it.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Swimming/s/apsIOLVehS

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,444 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48822697#Comment_48822697

    just the man. I’ve got two for you.

    First of all, a super interesting episode of the podcast No Such Thing as a Fish which actually has some bearing on the swimming thin. Maybe not much, but interesting discussion of effort underwater nevertheless:

    https://open.spotify.com/episode/2LNOv3QuMPmNMlNvpBNa4c?si=8oZyAesBSF6Pq-SqjEasvQ


    and second of all, I can now echo your aversion to Chikfila at Del Taco.

    Went to meet a friend at a favorite Mexican restaurant, one where I have the mango grilled chicken salad saved as a meal.

    They were out of business!!!😢


    So we went to Del Taco next door. Haven’t been in one of those since high school. Yikes.

    I had just told my husband last night, I judge a Mexican restaurant on the quality of their street tacos.

    My dog has better quality meat in his can of Pedigree than I got in those tacos. Revolting doesn’t even begin to describe. Dried chopped and reconstituted as 🤬 carne asada. I THINK NOT!!!!!

    How can these places stay in business? Even were I still a fat little Gordita I wouldn’t stomach those. Ugh!!!

  • BigDfromNJ
    BigDfromNJ Posts: 154 Member

    @springlering62 I hear you! I avoid most fast-food places, other than Zuppas (if you have one by you and haven't gone to it, you should, fabulous salads!) I do get coffee at Burger King (better than Starbucks!) and do eat at Costa Vida at times. It just seems like the really good mom and pop restaurants just can't stay in business. It's a shame, you finally find a place with good food at reasonable prices, and they shut their doors. I'm originally from NJ and miss a good Diner! Sorry your experience ruined your day. Find a good mango grilled chicken salad recipe and invite your friend to come over and make it together at your home. It may work out so well, you'll start a tradition! 😃

  • Jthanmyfitnesspal
    Jthanmyfitnesspal Posts: 3,823 Member

    We have really good tacarias where I live. We don’t go that much because it’s a bit carby, greasy, and salty: perfect food for working all day on the heat, but not exactly needed by a New England desk jockey.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,444 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48824820#Comment_48824820

    try street style tacos. They’re small, on soft corn tortillas that are in the 2 for 90 calorie range, and fillings are very basic but fresh.

    Grilled chicken, shrimp or meat cooked with light seasoning, chopped onion and cilantro. They are good protein and very acceptable calories- if you can look the other way when the tortilla chips, guacamole, cheese dip and salsa come. I’ve been asking for a side of bell pepper strips to eat with the salsa either in lieu of corn chips or half and half.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,314 Community Helper
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48825177#Comment_48825177

    That's absolutely gorgeous, @springlering62 - lovely, meticulous, impressive work!

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,444 Member

    thanks, @AnnPT77

    As I was packing up, I realized it was 33,000 beads. I figure I had a thousand left over. 😱

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,933 Member
    edited November 7

    Wow, that is a seriously impressive piece of needle/bead work!

    I can't tell what the item is, is it something you wear?

  • Jthanmyfitnesspal
    Jthanmyfitnesspal Posts: 3,823 Member

    It’s tea season! After dinner my wife and I each brew up our favorite herbal mix.

    Mine includes (as I’ve said above) a chamomile tea bag, fresh sage leaf, pumpkin spice mix, cardamom, and turmeric. The last three are dried and powdered and I just dump them in. I also add a teaspoon of raw honey. Steep at 80C. It looks like this:

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    The powdered herbs settle to the bottom. The tea bag can be fished out. The whole thing is sort of a booze-replacement and it is very satisfying.

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,933 Member

    eek. That Spanish moss? I grew up in Florida and we never touched that stuff….I won't ruin your appreciation of it - but I would never think to pay money for it!

    @springlering62 really beautiful images and thanks for the explanation of the beadwork. It reminds me of a Native American blanket I have when looking at the geometry and learning of the tribal/clan connection.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,444 Member

    Freeze warning for tomorrow night.

    High today is 72. Tomorrow’s high is 65.

    Wait. What? 🤷🏻‍♀️


    Said in my oldest, raspiest, crotchetiest voice: Why I remember when it was 70’s one day and we had that record blizzard the next.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,444 Member

    @AnnPT77 your plant devotion is lovely.

    I kill via neglect. Which reminds me, I haven’t watered plant since before we left to travel and that was almost two months ago. Hey, Siri, remind me to…..

  • BigDfromNJ
    BigDfromNJ Posts: 154 Member

    I pretty much kill every indoor plant I get. I got a Thanksgiving Cactus 6 years ago; it looked sickly but still bloomed one (in June!). But I've kept at it, transplanted it, added fertilizer, and moved it around to different windows. Finally found a window it likes, left it there and totally ignored it, now it's thriving and covered with buds, so maybe this Thanksgiving it'll bloom?? I'll post a pic if it does! Just goes to show you: never give up!

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,314 Community Helper
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48826817#Comment_48826817

    I kill via neglect, and also via over-attention (various forms of the latter).

    Two of my cacti recently died from overwatering. I was scared to stick my finger in the soil to gauge dryness, because they were close to the pot edge and would always bite me. So I watered them when they didn't need it. Oops.

    I have some plants that I've had for literal decades. They are the tough ones. The touchy ones die. At any given time, I have some - probably quite a few - that will eventually turn out to be touchy, and die. Most of the time, if one dies, I don't get that plant again. There have been a couple of exceptions - things I really, really wanted. Sometimes the retry succeeds. Last time I counted, there were 87 houseplants here. It's probably still somewhere around that.

    @cmriverside, Michigan has no native Tillandsia (a.k.a. air plants), as far as I can determine. I'm sure that's part of my interest in them. I like weird plants. If I lived where Spanish moss was native, it wouldn't be weird. However, we do have some native cacti, and I do have a couple of those - outside in the yard, mostly, though.

  • BigDfromNJ
    BigDfromNJ Posts: 154 Member

    Why are people crazy about Starbucks bear cups? Here's a tip from an old person: instead of spending hundreds of dollars on Starbucks bear cups invest the money instead. Put it into your Roth IRA (or start one if you don't have one) or put it into your child's 529 account for college. "Things" are a waste of money. Financial security is priceless!

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,444 Member
    edited November 9

    ok I looked this up after it showed up in my newsfeed today and then you mentioned it @BigDfromNJ


    I can’t think of a worse shape to try to clean and reuse. It’s going to sit proudly on someone’s shelf for about a month, til they realize what a PITA it is to clean/carry a glass mug to Starbucks to refill/ the plastic lid cracks.

    Even at $29.95 retail , it’s a joke.

    But then again, I’m the Mom who had to find alllll the beanies “for my girls” ya know, so yall knock yourselves out.


    …..and while we’re at it, can we talk “-core”? How unimaginative are you that you have to copy the ultra latest home trends and change them up every few weeks to keep up?

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,444 Member

    man, can you believe Beanies are over 30 years old?!!!!!!

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,933 Member
    Shocks Beanie Baby 2006

    No. "Shocks" is shocked.

  • allison3388
    allison3388 Posts: 4 Member

    Hello I turned 60 last month ! I still have beanie babies around the house. Just looked up that starbucks bear cup - yeah it's kind of impractical.

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