Training Log Archive: Yukon King

slept well, yay! listened to most of the 64446 concert from Hyde Park last night, very interesting. D enjoyed Critical Mass ride, lost his voice, is that funny or what!?
for BBQ this weekend I've invented the BBQ'ed Banana Split - brush 3 peeled bananas (for 2 people) w toasted sesame oil, toss on grill to see if they stick. After a bit, slice longwise and pop onto two sesame-oiled & brown-sugared tinfoils, close, & bake gently on the side for a bit. Then top w one organic Denman's chocolate bar previously processed as follows - melt, mix w a Tb of butter, split & form into (1) tiny frozen logs of chocolate-butter swirled w chunky peanutbutter (2) frozen chocolate-butter coins caked on top w toasted walnut bits. Dennis said he couldnt decide which would be better w/out actually tasting them....uh-huh...(in case that seems like a lotta work, yer not getting it - its just an excuse to smear chocolate all over the kitchen and then...uh, Gypsy can lick it up, yeah...)
The bananasplit reference comes from the banana of course, but also the state-changes induced by juxtaposition of hot & cold elements - stuff melts and melds deliciously in both cases...theoretically at least.

inordinately gorgeous today when I walked over to grocery for a few bits & pieces. dog-walk around 4pm, pretty hot, dog lazy, went via shade to rocks and visited with Weezy & Abby, met Shelly coming out of the building when we went back inside....

so this morning the fever & aches are gone, tummy still sore. whut-thuh ? gonna take it easy. D ordered in chinese last night so will partake cautiously of that, he is gonna try for the Critical Mass biking event downtown after work despite his raging allergies. I am gonna reread Fellowship of the Ring. oof.

C • so now your on your taper. ... 1

C • fever 2

and...heeeere's my taper...
gorgeous sun, so we took the chair, the dog, kibbles, water, book, shades, & hat, & toddled gently (tummy still a bit sore) over to the forest meadow by the old resort, sat there for about an hour then moved for another hour to the grass & rocks at the end of the cul-de-sac (less isolated so more dogs) & played w Dallice, Tiffie, & G's Sheltie friend.

Practicing furoshiki folding this lovely afternoon. Got a CD & a paperback looking nice, a rather mutant empty vinegar bottle (perhaps the furoshiki is too small?), and am theoretically very pleased with the double-bottle fold, looks like that one may be the charismatic rock-star of the furoshiki folds....

evening walk as well, lovely & fresh.

did the whole RoM, rem strength, & a few bits of real yoga. Floor stuff. Grey day. Now we shall go walk around the neighborhood, & then we shall have tea, & then we shall put tofu & snow peas & red peppers into coconut milk (& probably some other stuff), plus we shall cut up a cold mango & an orange so they can get to know each other better in a white bowl.

nice walk down to the parkway, across & thru the woods & back up the creek & home - last 10 minutes I felt hideous, like passing out - got home drank some OJ, got a really sore tummy, developed a nice sturdy fever, body aches, racing pulse, & a pounding headache, and that was it for me for Thursday. whoa.

RoM, remedial strength, a bit of a nod in the general direction of some yoga asanas...
experimented w remainder of sun-dried tomato pasta, well, a small ball of it - actually sat down to read instructions, it said dough s/b dry for the dies to cut properly - so I kept working flour in & trying it, then lo & behold! suddenly instead of a flabby slab w spagetti imprinted on it, out fell SPAGETTI, which I promptly boiled and ate, yum!
rest of pasta sheets are now drying on counter, I will hand-cut it for curried singaporese noodles w tofu tonight, carrots N squash N stuff, mango & cucumber salad, & a bit of the rhubarb cobbler to finish.

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spent an hour & half digging molehills, messing in creeks, & scouting picnic table over in the other park - D says he may take a day off this weekend so we can have a picnic BBQ, kaloo kalay ! It's gonna be hot too, finally, so it'll be nice to sit around all afternoon reading in the shade... tea, CBC Disc Drive, & BBQ research.

evening walk as well - met Mog & Cookie & played w both. lotsa helicopter action.

classic spring/early summer menu (hm, salmon isnt quite spring really...but) miso-marinated salmon, baby potatoes possibly w lemon butter, skinny asparagus very plain, experimental grilled nectarine shortcakes w honey-cinnamon butter, & a rhubarb-strawberry cobbler (cuz the shortcake is the same recipe as the cobble-top) as back-up.
I have a theory that when I babble about my food experiments I am experiencing more energy...

train stn & downtown - p/u gam at St Pauls, mail stuff, drop off taxes, tea w/ Steve, actually we ate kolachy from the kiosk in Bentall, I've been wanting to try them for a long time, yum! (1.4km)
then dogwalk (1.2km) in the cool forest - took it slow & easy w/ rests in the shady grass, tried to keep walk a bit shorter to see how her energy is - seems just fine outside, then inside she just falls asleep - maybe she's growing up in her attitudes, & the "den" is just for sleeping? appetite is good, digestion normal, affection such as it is seems normal...

woke up w/ no aches... hope that continues...was it a low-symptom virus, maybe, aches & no energy? I'm good that it's byebye whatever it was. Gonna try to make sun-dried-tomato pasta today. I have a feeling it will turn out to be gross mud-brown pasta, hmmm...maybe tomato paste instead, but what do I do with these unpleasantly unco-operative non-oil sundried tomatoes then?

C • goat cheese, basil, olives,... 4

feet a teensy bit tired, but energy excellent! back from bro-in-law's via train stn, then down thru the cool woods (watching G-dog's energy levels too, seems much better today) & back up, gorgeous w bits of brilliant sunshine, drifts of ranunculus, peeked around a tree & saw this insane prehistoric-looking woodpecker (seen & logged it before too lazy to look up name) prying things from a fallen tree-branch & vocalizing to itself in indescribably exotic gutteral woodpeckerese. G was nonplussed, completely undone by this, she just stood there in amazement as this dinosaur-looking thing bashed the branch apart. Me too. we woulda been totally dead if it was a velociraptor.

went out for a Sunday afternoon in the park; G was alarmingly sluggish coming home, almost not just reluctant but tired?! It is getting warmer. She played w Jack in the park, & Coalie when we came home. She DID kinda wanna play at the end and didnt lapse into a coma immediately upon arriving home so it isnt super bad, but I do have to stay alert to the possibility of real tiredness/heat reactions, I am so used to her being a Big Fake. How to diagnose it is gonna be a bit tricky...
Greek food & Kung-Fu Panda, both good. Finished '06 pkg for Gord, yahoooo!