Training Log Archive: Yukon King

I am in a Group!!! wow !!

after dimsum I staggered around the neighborhood w/ G-dog like a round tub of excellent chinese food on legs. Quite a while after that, we went to Crescent Beach to have a BBQ of mussels, salmon, corn on the cob, and grilled tomato & pepper pizza, yum. A bit like an east coast clambake but different. G-dog ran one million miles in the off-leash area, & waded & came back filthy & happy. I walked her after sunset over to the pier where people were fishing. I think summer is really over tho...

downtown on the train to bank, back to Metrotown to doctor, grocery, pharmacy, shoestore, library... as the asian mamas say, "Aieee-Yah!!"
Feet rather achey so G-dog & I went to the Rocks and sat there meeting dogs & greeting members of her fan-club in sunshine. Morning mist of autumn is back, suddenly smells like fall. Classic French onion soup w/ parmesan croutons, crostini topped w/ baked goat cheese & some kinda...um, roasted pepper thing I forgot the name of. Plus corn on the cob cuz the delivery guy had LOTS...Started Monkshood, book #3.

to the park via a circuitous route to check out new picnic tables behind school. In other news, finished second Cadfael novel, now to figure out which one is next. They seem to be working on refurbishing the pool, maybe after the trip to SF in October I can go swimming again!! whooohooo, after about 6 months of wrangling who's gonna fix it... italian adventure begins tonight, caprese salad w/ good tomatoes, sweetened balsamic vinegar (sherry did it fine), bocconcini sliced, & chiffonade of basil, then spaghetti carbonara, which is basically bacon & eggs on spaghetti, yeehaaaa! Or a thin custard flavored w/ bacon, parmesan, & scallion, smeared onto spaghetti. However you like to think of it. Hopefully I can keep the egg from curdling. Not really O-food altho I am slimming it down some from the original.

dog-food expedition w/ dad-in-law after golf today, plant baths (plumeria regrew foliage & look good, coffee tree is OK, koa trees NEED BATHS, pomegranate looks like cr*p, bay tree is OK, some kinda bug disaster out on patio) make cornbread to go w/ chili tonight, look at nexus apps.... early dog walk to park. yeah...

over to the park, back around the base of it (what a disaster, the country-lane thing is all chomped to bits by grinding machines, yuck, but it'll grow back in a season easily) & home along the parkway.

evening dogwalk over to train station to meet D after his haircut - then down the creek. G ate more flying ants.

pensive day today.
over to park "as usual", G-dog behaving well, good heel, good sit at corners. last few blackberries in a shady corner that were slow to ripen. Gorgeous sunshine. Getting caught up on household. Sushi salad tonight, w/ grapes & oranges to follow.

evening walk as well. Met Big Boy Dogs, killed many bugs (there is a flight of flying ants deluging the area including our bed, G-dog is doing her best to take them all out), & agonized over whether or not to poop in the face of all the mesmerizing distractions.

hmmm, those two visits to two entirely different but scrumptious Interior-of-BC chinese buffets (Dennis was the only chinese client in both) have really paid off in a bit of weight gain. Perhaps I will get rid of some of that presently. but YUM!!! I ate three different colors of Jello! among other things...

back from train station (so thrilled by cooking shows on the Food Network at the Holiday Inn Express that we are going for a week or two of classic french & italian numbers, hence visit to library for inspiration) and then over to park for usual adapt-dog-back-to-local-routine. Seems to be working pretty good so far. (sort of)
Hot today, like mid-summer again.

Amazing!! we were almost home and on a whim we turned off to look at Jones Lake, a hydro-electric rec site I had fallen in love with from a grainy B&W photo in a canoeing book. Hideous road up, scared me pretty good plus I felt like my belly fat deposits were going to get bounced right off my body by the jouncing even tho we were taking it real slow. And since my belly fat deposits are not all that substantial, for them to be getting up such momentum, we were really rockin...BUT what an amazing lake, so quiet and w/ rugged peaks (down in WA state) at the south end. We are going back!