Training Log Archive: Yukon King

wild guesstimate (it was probably more) of time at Lougheed, picking up photos, looking at albums & frames, fabric... D N G went to Lighthouse Park to march around together, I am fluffing up some Peace Country burgers & a salmon burger w/ everything including yer classic sesame-seed bun (OK, they're WW & organic but whatever) & a fun potato salad w that basil & yogurt dressing, yum, all colorful & crunchy w snow peas, red pepper, and scallion....plus we're gonna test-drive the "miruvor" for Thanksgiving Middle earth menu - found some fancy lemon soda water to put a bubble into the golden iced apple wine from Blue Heron when we went on the Circle Farm Tour during our vacation last week, also gonna try plain soda water...
feel pretty good despite not much sleep.

C • lunch w/ plethora of vegeta... 3

aaaa-a-aah! woke up at 4AM w possible solution for sailing vacation dessert - to go w pan-Mediterranean grill-fest (chorizo, shrimp, lamb sausages, polenta, falafel, zucchini, porcini, peppers, feta, & pita all grilled, accompanied by appropriate dips & gracenotes) - based on grilled shortcakes I did a while ago but NOT grilled, I'll wanna sit down & visit w family by dessert-time - peaches & pears w honey, cardamon, lemon juice, & sliced dried figs & apricots, covered w a cardamon-scented cobbleresque top with (get this) surprising pockets of sweetened mascarpone doctored w/ lemon zest, I'm picturing a kind of localized melty lemon cheescakiness, combined of course w the usual fruit-meltiness on the bottom of the cobbler-top ... have to test-drive that soon.

nice walk around Cortina to Taylor Park, met Freckles & played w her, then dragged home, actually carried the 20+ lb dog the last half-block, cuz she was so very lying-down-in-the-shade... it is a bit warm out there, everything is limp or just downright brown - if only that 30% chance of rain comes thru this weekend, the blackberries will be a bumper crop this year!
hoisin tofu for dinner, kiwi & orange salad...got the FruitNVeg drawers/ bowls etc sorta under control. sorta. Set out pains au choc for tomorrow morning....

slept like a log. feel a bit better today! yay! pinecones unfolding slowly. (their non-participating cousins beside the photo table are already completely open - cunningly I set a glass dish over the top of the photo subjects with a juicey black cherry to keep them humid so they'd open slowly - I wanna take 3 or 4 photos at 4:30 each afternoon so light is similar, so they need to open slooo-o-o-wly...)

down the creek, thru the woods, up to the top of stairmaster, fiddled around on the parkway, & home. Nice blue-sky day, very energetic today!!!
Egg pasta behaves way better, not half so sticky-together. forgot & made the cilantro-pumpkin seed pesto that D finds too acid - must make note on card to test alternates to lime juice & olives; I find it delicious, but it is too pickly for D - maybe soy sauce & parmesan? stay tuned...
Forgot I had gamunex tonight, made me feel cranky to have to do it, grrr! tried to calm self by reading as many Pac Cup blogs as I could in an hour (they are halfway to Kane'ohe) but still somewhat grumpy. what to do...what to do... parhaps a nice picture book of some sort for the bath. Hawai'i, just to keep the pac cup reference going?
almost feel like maybe humira is helping... halfway thru the protocol so still a bit early.

another astonishingly low-energy day - D's wisdom tooth went mad last night so we got ...not-enuf sleep, shall we say...then off to Kits to visit my lovely dentist Dr. Nann, took a few hours for him to create a space for D to get his extraction, so we had some quality time in the waiting room - I wandered around for lunch, forgot how much I enjoy urban life in my old neighborhood, all the little cafes & bakeries, florists etc. felt fairly feeble but happy. Then home, bought pudding & other soft foods for D now ravenous, went around neighborhood in afternoon sun w/ G-dog - met Eightball, saw a herd of 4 pugs!! collected unopened pinecones for a timelapse photo idea.

a truly stellar example of energy plummet today - did the estate meeting in the AM, then home and happily assembled an egg pasta (trenette I usually do has some challenges post-cooking handling so I wanted to see how egg pasta behaves) - this segued into an expt to see how egg pasta behaves when it is stored indefinitely in a big lump in the fridge as I got a degree or two of fever for no reason at all plus all my energy leaked away such that I couldn't even read, so frustrating! But, we had thai delivery for dinner, and I did feel fractionally better during the dog-walk (The Pee Must Come Out) over to the park - flopped over in the red adirondack chair sculpture & rested...
G's 1.75 birthday today

downtown to give our nat'l parks pass to Steve (& collect a free lunch form him in return), snuck a quick peek at the cruiseships in passing, home to do three loads of laundry & the recycling, walk the pooch around the parkway in the sunshine (No Dogs?!), and make rather yummy but fast thai tofu w tons of pretty-colored vegies & a sauce of sweet chilli jam, nam pla, & toban jian adulterated w chopped cilantro, basil, & lime zest. Then a complete non sequitor of a bit of brie, & some huge, perfect, jet-black cherries....

canoeing at Hayward lake today - we figured out that we must apply silicon to the prow-things, & it will behave better - we shall see. Gonna make way-bread to go w picnic of hummous, goat cheese, old cheddar...plus cherries, plums, figs, basically the dregs of our vacation food. 1c each plain & rye flours, 3/4c water, 1Tb bk pdr, 3/4tsp salt, 3Tb olive oil, mix a medium stiff dough, roll out to 0.5 cm thick, lay on cornmeal cookie sheet & poke w fork, bake 400 20-25 min til a bit browned - watch edges like an eagle! adulterate w rosemary or spices or seeds of choice, use WW instead of rye, roll in salt crunches on top before baking...mmmmm, AND its vegan!

C • mmm, if only all meals coul... 3

haha, well, no canoeing, we stayed flexible & decided to rest for the AM & afternoon w/ a homestyle picnic, in the late afternoon we went for a truncated Circle Farm Tour (Hopcott Meats & Blue Heron Fruit Winery) briefly Viewed the lake where we WOULD have canoed, & agreed it is a lovely canoeing lake for later, then some more charming backroads, & finally a gorgeous dinner in Abbotsford deep in the Valley at Restaurant 62 nominally for our fifth ann - nice bread & a tahini-rich hummous, a complementary & very nice seared ahi amuse on a couscous timbale, soup/salad (D was so happy w his tomato soup, I loved my tiny pretty salad w tons of huge crunchy hazelnuts), an intense raspberry sorbet to "cleanse", or, uh blast off the top of your head, still very fun - then a huge (shared) pasta for me & good mahimahi for D, organic Mighty Leaf Teas for both of us, w a mini-cheesecake & a berry shortcake. Overall not out of this world, but extremely good & fab gracious service - for the price it was madness! A great end to a great vacation!
evening walk w G around the hood, saw Nicky, met Leo.

felt weary so D took G for afternoon walk & I did some moves to get blood flowing - lotsa remedial strength this time, also focussed on breathing & just doing stuff slow & several times.
Eyes are not perfect but doing so much better than a few days ago!