Training Log Archive: Yukon King

groggy day, very rainy, walked puppy up to the corner and back, not loggable. tried bro-in-law's cornbread recipe w/ my organic & super-coarse "polenta" grind -worked nice!

obedience went well last night. Apparently we have an "aloof" dog. also itchy. and indolent. And, we went to DQ after & I had a $4 Caramel Waffle Blizzard, which means my non-NASA fund is down to $21....
stroganoff for dinner, sour-cream dill potato salad, & a mango, a broccoli, an onion, & a red pepper were mocking me last night so they'll get their various starring roles this eveniing. Gonna update O-journal today - Whonnock Lake & Sage Stomp.

80 minutes outside for puppy as the weather turns gorgeous again, two little walks cuz D said she was tired this morning.

already can feel feet are happier. cool & misty today, maybe smoked salmon pasta, roasted sesame yams...

in aid of my feet & puppy's energy for this evening's obedience class, made walks today short, looking at lupines & new overpass by Cortina.
in aid of quelling of vegetable riots, added zucchini, scallions & dill to salmon pasta, halved the kiwi population, & finally did up that spicey sugar-sweated onion N greens combo, yum yum, my white-trash roots are singing! Riots ongoing but slightly muted.

OK, let's reduce those km & make the feet happy, elevate them too. Also considering reducing spending a bit this month as I feel mired in consumerism, when I look objectively at what I have been buying, it is just stuff like cheese, contact solution, bread, & so on, but it's like I'm always acquiring things argghh.. I know it is mostly cuz we did a mortgage lumpsum & so kissed off a big chunka change (to my mind at least) plus I HAVE overindulged in the organic fruits & veg causing vegetable rioting & escapee-ism in bottom of fridge. But I decided for rest of June only essentials - food, meds, and I have $25 in my change jar which I will use to buy stuff which I would be too ashamed to ask NASA to send up in the next shuttle...

yay! finally managed to stop being so uncaring of my feet - visiting bro-in-law in New Westminster for the afternoon, two lil walks around their neighborhood to drain the dog, scouted Robin's place, wow have they done a nice job on the landscaping - maybe visit her next week.
Out for posh seafood dinner (lobster ravioli, oooh) in the evening to celebrate D's completion of project, looked at Fraser getting ready to crawl over its banks & start testing all the sandbags....

gonna trot mercilessly around again...still cool, roses are coming out which reminds me those moss roses over by the daycare smell like plumeria to me (a bit lemony?) which is small potatoes compared to other odorous hallucinations I've experienced such as the one where for several months green pepper, coffee, poo, & garden soil all smelled the same (not like poo, just ...the same), which broadened my horizons; actually I liked the "vague-scent-of-vanilla-for-several-weeks" one quite a bit better...

C • 'green pepper, coffee, poo, & ... 2

had coffee w/ Anne & Grant up at Highgate & got caught up 1.6 km, plus a walk w/ G over to the creek - met Wilbur & Brutus both of whom are tiny white mops (go Brutus!), walked thru the woods...1.0km, 50 min outside. G got her marrowbone this afternoon & chewed until her jaws cramped, yum. Vietnamese noodles tonite w/ tofu, broccoli, greens, & peppers, some rather yummy sundried tomato hummous just cuz I can, & a big fruit salad - mango/strawberry/kiwi - nice colors!

evening walk just before dinner to play w' Eightball The Black Pug With a Round Head, then down to tha parkway and back around. Yow. One more day of marching about & then I will rest.

wicked groggy today but just muscling thru it. (In a manner of speaking, mental muscle or somesuch.) Hot weather broke, now it is raining, cool-ish but humidity seems high. 70's style corn-tomato casserole from an ancient magazine for dinner (I think it is a Thanksgiving side but seems like a nice vegetarian main course w/ a few add-ons, maybe that southern greens recipe, a bit of yummy cheese...) Must start paying attention to the part of my log that says my feet hurt, cuz they do...

still not doing great on cutting back km - had to chomp a tylenol for the first time in a while, & I am elevating feet...just feels nice out there esp w/ cool rain falling. Met Kelly after second walk so G-dog is puffing like a steam engine after running around K's backyard for 15 minutes. About...1.5 hr outside total. Nice day. Returned moldy cheese to metro-town so that is part of it...oh well gotta have a life. Maybe I'll ice my feet as well.

another hot day in the works apparently. went mad at the corner grocery & came home w/ orange marigold, cobalt-blue lobelia, deep red verbena, hot pink & purple mini-petunias, a pale pink begonia, white alyssum (all for $10); apparently un-co-ordinated vulgarity is the keynote for this year's patio look...
Feet hurting, hohum, will take advantage of hot weather & pup's indolence to do a bit less walking.
Amazed myself by having cold blueberry pancakes & cold chili for lunch. yum. the culinary invention never ends in this household.

around 2pm, 65min outside, met cassie AND callista, tiny gold & silver yorkies, no energy to play tho. Messed w/ a sprinkler for a while, very refreshing. Also played w/ cat, gotta photograph that sometime, quite remarkable! Dog now passed out, time for tea & plant my new flowers, aaaahhhh! then dinner at Mr Ho's w/ dad-in-law, yay!

oddly exhausted & bored at same time, so me & the G go out & solidly sit outside as it rapidly cools, something moving in fast from the SE. Then we sit someplace else, then we walk around the block & then some. Feel better after 75 min outside, pup is ready for bed. Brilliant cool breeze is blowing.