Training Archive: Yukon KingIn the 7 days ending 2008-02-02:
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Saturday Feb 2 | ||
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| Snow!!
today we are going on a mom-&-daughter walk w/ Shelly. have been considering lent next week - thought about sugar, thought about caffeine, then suddenly I thought I'd just do a classic no-meat-or-fowl Lent - and this way we can support this new fishmonger down the hill - just think, a fishmonger in this day of superstores....so I got out my SeaChoice list, looked at the number of lenten days not covered by tofu, beans, vegan pastas, & so on, and now I have a nice list of fish to discuss w/ them. Hope it works out. (Not utterly sure this constitutes a true abstinence, as in fact setting this challenge has enriched my life, maybe add a bit of daily thought or self-education about hunger/poverty?) Sun!! | ||
| C • jfrommes suggestion about f... 2 | ||
| walking 36:00 [1] 1.8 km (20:00 / km) | |
| fun walk W/ Shelly & Su-Jane & teeny Casper in the sun, over to the park & then back thru the Cortina area. Feet a lil sore from the two days in a row, but OK... | ||
Friday Feb 1 | ||
| walking 30:00 [1] 1.5 km (20:00 / km) | |
| morning walk cuz D has early class. Met Tischa (she doesn't play), played w/ Coley, the Lab Twins, Happy, and twice w/ Freckles. Saw the golden crowned kinglets - they seem to forage much lower & slower in the mornings. Lotsa snow-digging, rolled in at least two excellently disgusting things. good time was had by all... | ||
| Note | |
| weight:62.2kg | ||
| kofta was simply Disgusting to make (I am not a huge carnivore), pretty clearly very fatty, but pretty darn tasty - D like the veg version, I liked the spice version...meet in the middle? | ||
| walking 32:00 [1] 1.6 km (20:00 / km) | |
| downtown on the train - banking, tea w/ Steve. Bought cookbook - attracted like moth to flame - bright pink, entitled Cook This - Recipes for the Goodtime Girl, & 80% off (cant beat a $5 cookbook). Feel great, sunny, credit thang appears to be corralled. | ||
| walking 22:00 [1] 1.1 km (20:00 / km) | |
| afternoon walk, sunshine, played w/ Happy, Coby & Neo. A bit tired, not too bad. tea time, Disc Drive on CBC.... | ||
Thursday Jan 31 | ||
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| there are two recipes in the Potato Book for kofta (greek food? balls of lamb) so I've decided to make them both to taste-test against each other - one on the raisins-nuts-cinnamon axis, the other bulgur-veg-herbs, two different sauces (mint yogurt, & tomato-onion). | ||
| walking 26:00 [1] 1.3 km (20:00 / km) | |
| aaaa-aaahh!! got back from our walk (which was great, played w/ a puggle named Winsey, & Yolick from our bldg, & rescued several old rotting muffins from being buried in an avalanche) & got a msg from the credit card fraud squad - aaaahhh! someone harvested or synthesized my number, I think - classic gas-station trials, segue to Kmart, 7-11, pop clothing, on-line stuff... gah! But CIBC computers ID'ed the pattern pretty quick, & they've cancelled the card & they SAY they'll send me the transactions to sign off on & then I won't be charged....we'll see if that works out that nice... I hafta figure out if it was JUST this card, & it WAS just a number harvest/synthesis... how do I figure that out ? what else should I check? hmmmm.... time for some tea, definitely! | ||
Wednesday Jan 30 | ||
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| yay! its still snowing. G exhausted from AM walk. Cardamon-scented cafe au lait after watching Jagge's finnish runners on RG, very exciting! Have decided to celebrate our virtual Prius (NYTimes, Thx, R) by converting a beef recipe (onions, hoisin sauce etc, green peppers) to tofu, yum! | ||
| walking 28:00 [2] 1.4 km (20:00 / km) | |
| after donning Smartwools, Rockports, & Yaktrax (nothing like Branded Equipment to set an arthritic girl up for a trot in the snow!) we go out into the rain which is making for a serious slush-trudge, we both got pretty soggy. Down to parkway & across. terrorized two batches snow monkeys, barked at a snowman, played very nicely w/ tiny Casper the Yorkie puppy.
BENCHMARK - noticed yesterday & today that I came home tired, not hurting. track this. may be significant. Also, today was intensity two. Time for tea. | ||
| C • Molasses??? 2 | ||
Tuesday Jan 29 | ||
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| it's snowing !!! G's mom Shelly came over and visited last night... it was a whale of a success socially...
Gypsy: oooh!!!!! hi! yer a dog! I love dogs! welcome to my apartment! Shelly: Grrrrrr....ggrrrrgrrr....this is MY apartment. Gypsy: uh, OK.... wanna play? Shelly: Grrrrrrr. grrrr... Gypsy: uh, OK. I'll go over here. Lemme know if you wanna play. Shelly: ggggrrrrrrr..... G is such a nice, hopeful little dog... | ||
| walking 36:00 [1] 1.8 km (20:00 / km) | |
| out into the snow, about 8 inches out there, played w/ a white mop-dog w/ snowballs hanging off her all over, watched the attack mini-poodle brigade go by, then snorted & flailed our way down the bikepath, thru the woods to the midsection of stairmaster & back along parkway to bikepath to retrace our steps. Snow like lace on the forest, trunks of cedars looked like cinnamon sticks. ooh, it was nice!!! | ||
| C • Does G like the snow? 3 | ||
| C • mmm, sometimes i find your ... 2 | ||
| walking 10:00 [1] 0.5 km (20:00 / km) | |
| evening walk as well, snow still gorgeous, met Shelly who is even more disgusted than previously by her bouncey-hopeful progeny... | ||
Monday Jan 28 | ||
| walking 20:00 [1] 1 km (20:00 / km) | |
| on the drive up Whidbey we stopped at Greenbank Farm for some nice quiches for lunch, a great latte, some OK cherry pie...then a fabulous dogwalk/gallop in their gigantic off-leash area; I peeled off presently & scouted the cheeses & the loganberry products (bought jelly & some wine, so fab retro to make wine out of BERRIES - if they had elderberry or dandelion I swear I'd have bought that too. It made me feel like a hobbit, all sort of turn-of-the-century british countryside...) | ||
Sunday Jan 27 | ||
| walking 28:00 [1] 1.4 km (20:00 / km) | |
| took G-dog out for afternoon walk along the super-pretty sea-side park below the bluff upon which Langley is situated - out, along the low-tide beach (rotting fish-heads, YUM!!!) , and back, along the very cute skinny grassy park. Then wandered the village for lunch & a bit of sightseeing. THEN... dinner at the Inn....
foie gras mousseline (reminded me of...butter, YUM!) in a wine-poached date crusted w/ lovely almond slivers for an amuse bouche, nice slightly clove-scented butternut squash soup w/ bits of soft pear floating, slow-roasted salmon and local mussels on a bed of fennel, leek, & artichoke bits that had basically been softened in a broth/butter/cream mix... venison accompanied by shredded brussels spouts subjected to treatment similar to above vegies, & a pile of sweet potato fragments that had been finely chopped & then briefly roasted w/ some savory yumminess on it, a cheese that was like a brie w/ candied ginger (this was the only teeny non-sequitur in my opinion, a bit too powerful, but I love ginger so I wolfed it down anyhow) & grapes that had been very briefly roasted in butter (hmmm... Ok, says I, grapes? butter? yum!) and finally a nice vanilla pannacotta in a fab tart/sweet huckleberry compote, perfect contrast. Oh, & then locally made choc. truffles, two of which apparently involved chile & curry (& gold foil) but to me they were just insanely perfect chocolate richnesses... wow... | ||