Training Log Archive: Yukon KingIn the 30 days ending Jun 30, 2007:
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Saturday Jun 30, 2007 #
walking 30:00 [1] 1.5 km (20:00 / km)
tried out the new lil Go-Anywhere charcoal grill from Weber - works really nice, did a good job on the vegie kebabs & the organic turkey-dogs (kinda nasty texture, don't think I will try those again) out in the sunshine in a local park with the lil doggie on a long blue string watching the kids play frisbee. Then we went off to PoCo to visit family friends, see the baby, took the dogs for a walk in the woods along the river. Lucky swam, Gypsy dabbled.
Friday Jun 29, 2007 #
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weight:57.6kg
uh oh. I need to stick pills in my dog. I hope the peanut butter thing is gonna work on these as well....
wonder if my weight slipping gently towards 57 is the reason for my Extreme Fixation on DQ & chocolate.
Spicey Vietnamese noodles tonight, tofu, broccoli, onion, red pepper, peas, maybe zucchini.
wonder if my weight slipping gently towards 57 is the reason for my Extreme Fixation on DQ & chocolate.
Spicey Vietnamese noodles tonight, tofu, broccoli, onion, red pepper, peas, maybe zucchini.
walking 23:00 [1] 1.2 km (19:10 / km)
very tired and weak today again despite another 8.5 hr of sleep - felt quite ill but could tell that some fresh air would be good - went down to Taylor park for an hour and a half just sitting on park bench watching other dogs play fetch (fascinating but incomprehensible to the G-dog who prefers that we both go and look at the thrown object. Repeatedly) Felt much better when we got home. broken cloud, refreshing wind, our windows are getting cleaned which freaked G out til I remembered I have to sit down & read the paper as if it is normal, then she realizes it's normal. But she kept watching the guy closely all the same. No cooking tonight, tofu some other time...
Thursday Jun 28, 2007 #
walking 20:00 [1] 1.0 km (20:00 / km)
down the first bit of stairmaster, then left along the parkway & back home - played very nicely w/ Cassie, met big tall golden Teak & the G-dog TOTALLY pee'd herself w/ joy. And then rolled in it. Wiped her down upon arrival home. Humid & warm, overcast. Looked for cat but no cat.
Second bit of tuna tonite, w/ just Emeril's spice mix on it, & will endeavour to arrange consumption promptly after cooking...asian greens w/ garlic & ginger, carrot-pea mix w/butter sauce, brown rice, mango...then vet visit for Itchy Dog, & obedience class for Disobedient (OK, Indolent) Dog...
by the way, organic fruit & veg DO NOT taste better. They taste crappier alotta the time, small, dried-out, dotted with scars & rottiness... what DOES taste better are what people think of as organic, ie Alice Waters, Chez Panisse-type veg, which are ARTISANAL (and often organic as well), ie hand-cossetted fruit & veg...those do taste better.
Second bit of tuna tonite, w/ just Emeril's spice mix on it, & will endeavour to arrange consumption promptly after cooking...asian greens w/ garlic & ginger, carrot-pea mix w/butter sauce, brown rice, mango...then vet visit for Itchy Dog, & obedience class for Disobedient (OK, Indolent) Dog...
by the way, organic fruit & veg DO NOT taste better. They taste crappier alotta the time, small, dried-out, dotted with scars & rottiness... what DOES taste better are what people think of as organic, ie Alice Waters, Chez Panisse-type veg, which are ARTISANAL (and often organic as well), ie hand-cossetted fruit & veg...those do taste better.
Wednesday Jun 27, 2007 #
walking 25:00 [1] 1.4 km (17:51 / km)
out to Taylor Park via the greenway between Cortina & the school. overcast but warm. did some "obedience"...some rather nice wildflower plantings - it is always interesting to see which flowers actually reseed and survive - usually not many kinds actually make it to the second year, but the first year is very pretty.
Ethical (line-caught?) tuna for dinner, I cut the piece in half so we'll have another bit of it tomorrow. Tried a sauce from Emeril's website, but it seems kinda.... bitter, don't think I'll ever really get continental cooking. Broccoli w/ oyster sauce, the brie I bought last night is on a cutting board thinking about things, some baby red potatoes w/ parsley butter... kiwis...
Ethical (line-caught?) tuna for dinner, I cut the piece in half so we'll have another bit of it tomorrow. Tried a sauce from Emeril's website, but it seems kinda.... bitter, don't think I'll ever really get continental cooking. Broccoli w/ oyster sauce, the brie I bought last night is on a cutting board thinking about things, some baby red potatoes w/ parsley butter... kiwis...
walking 15:00 [1] 0.7 km (21:26 / km)
another walk in the evening, met Coby & had a great wiggle session w/ Leonardo as well.
Finished Curiosity Shop, Little Nell very annoying, liked reading about Kit & Dick Swiveller much more, but 500 pages plus, can't complain too much... what am I gonna read next?! maybe some Nevil Shute to pass the time before the last Harry Potter comes out...
Finished Curiosity Shop, Little Nell very annoying, liked reading about Kit & Dick Swiveller much more, but 500 pages plus, can't complain too much... what am I gonna read next?! maybe some Nevil Shute to pass the time before the last Harry Potter comes out...
Tuesday Jun 26, 2007 #
walking 25:00 [1] 1.2 km (20:50 / km)
very nice walk down the ravine and back up mostly in the woods, very humid & quite a few flies, salmonberries & huckleberries yummy, Gypsy had another Phantom Snake Episode (she has only seen one snake in her life, & it never touched her, but slithered quickly away into the bush, but ever since then she has been able to vividly imagine snakes touching her hind feet whenever she is feeling the least bt spooked, & does the Shiba Inu Snake-Foot Boogie to get them off...)
salmon w/ lemon-pepper-dill, gonna roast it more slowly in the oven to see how that goes, corn in cob, nice rice blend, watermelon, raspberries - feels like summertime!
salmon w/ lemon-pepper-dill, gonna roast it more slowly in the oven to see how that goes, corn in cob, nice rice blend, watermelon, raspberries - feels like summertime!
Monday Jun 25, 2007 #
walking 55:00 [1] 2.9 km (18:58 / km)
weight:58.2kg
finding it hard to remember what I do these days at the end of the day...went to train station, library, bank, groceries... two walks, heard about Jack getting bit on the lip by a fox terrier ("like the one on Frasier"...., OK) Gypsy is checking out all the kids ever since that one "gave" her a cookie last week. She thinks kids are the bestest. Flare very slowly reducing, I could bend my L hand this morning, so good. Feet OK, too. Energy generally poorly managed, using useless strategy of "use it all up" - rethink...
Working thru Indian cookbook, am getting hang of curries at last! yogurt not curdling anymore just gently disappearing into sauce.
Am going to try approaching 57 kg again (lighter on joints) maybe having been at 58 for a while will make it less exhausting to go down this time. BMI 19.7 s/b OK, esp. w/ low muscle mass...
Working thru Indian cookbook, am getting hang of curries at last! yogurt not curdling anymore just gently disappearing into sauce.
Am going to try approaching 57 kg again (lighter on joints) maybe having been at 58 for a while will make it less exhausting to go down this time. BMI 19.7 s/b OK, esp. w/ low muscle mass...
Sunday Jun 24, 2007 #
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going to the Shiba Inu Ranch yesterday was fun & fact-filled as usual. Gypsy, despite being sold initially as a pet, appears to have sufficiently good adolescent conformation, personality, & health to be good enough to perhaps have babies! They will have another looksee when she is a year old.Apparently they like her in part cuz she played well w/ her tiny baby cousins (for hours!).
Cranberry oat pancakes for breakfast. Rainy.
Cranberry oat pancakes for breakfast. Rainy.
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did some kind of walking today but can't remember how much - I THINK I did walk around neighborhood at about 2pm, and then we scouted canoeing locations w/ pup leading to more walking - Deas Slough looks GREAT, Canoe Reach (oddly) not so much, really messy-to-non-existent put-ins. There was an first-nations youth N cops thing prepping for a multi-day paddle, about 14 huge first nations-styled canoes, downto Tsawwassen, then across Strait to Victoria, very exciting!!
Lightening, hail, monsoon-like rain followed by sunshine and double rainbows...
Lightening, hail, monsoon-like rain followed by sunshine and double rainbows...
Saturday Jun 23, 2007 #
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slept like a log. cafe au lait delicious this morning. organic whole wheat croissants are SLO-o-o-wly raising, maybe we will have them for lunch instead...visit to the Shiba Inu Ranch out in Abbotsford today, to see G's mom, dad, foster-mom, grama, & Sheila & Pierre the breeders who wanna look her over to see if SHE could be a mom! (someday)
walking 18:00 [1] 0.8 km (22:30 / km)
while D was on his run, Gypsy & I walked over to the rocks by the forest & basked, & then down thru the woods to parkway & home. Turns out sun-basking bleaches our doggie from red to creamy gold.
Friday Jun 22, 2007 #
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transfusion kinda hard today, really tired. nice thai delivery for dinner.
walking 50:00 [1] 2.5 km (20:00 / km)
feeling better next morning so able to log - 1.8 km train downtown & walk up to St Paul's, super-urban & fun. 0.7 dog-waddle over to warm rocks to sit for 10 minutes, met Wilbur, thru the woods, played w/ cat & G & I SMASHED into each other (um she is only 15 lb but she got some crazy momentum going there somehow) & I think I gave my R shoulder sumthin extra to think about as I flailed about getting my balance back. Gypsy's 8 month birthday today, I got her a pinecone, D took her for a walk w/ her Special Boyfriend Oscar. more partying tomorrow.
Thursday Jun 21, 2007 #
walking 15:00 [1] 0.8 km (18:45 / km)
continuing to take it easy - munched a tylenol, wearing my wrist brace. Pup seems fine w/ reduced distance (warmth slows her down) - looked for cat, looked at other doggies, sat in sunshine, intercepted grocery delivery guy & hung out w/ him in the hallway while I traded bins - turns out he is member of Gypsy Fan Club. Completed reservations for bro-in-law's trip in August, halfway thru Old Curiousity Shop, thai tofu for dinner before obedience class...
walking 12:00 [1] 0.6 km (20:00 / km)
second walk is also a tiny waddle up the street & back just before D gets home. Elevating my feet. L Hand a bit frozen so its weird typing...
Wednesday Jun 20, 2007 #
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weight:58.6kg
yaaaaa-a-aaah...flare-up. Thus taking-it-easy-day. sunshine again today, I am loving it.
walking 38:00 [1] 1.9 km (20:00 / km)
three dog-walk bits, best one midafternoon up almost to the corner grocery & back thru the woods, then in the late afternoon we played with Coley from our building a bit. L hand numbing out a bit, gotta work on that. Hydrating well.
Tuesday Jun 19, 2007 #
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weight:58.6kg
experimental veggy protein foray - supposedly like ground beef?! will dress it up as mexican - lotsa flavor & textures to distract from potential fakeness...
R wrist hurting, feet hurt too.
R wrist hurting, feet hurt too.
walking 59:00 [1] 3.0 km (19:40 / km)
over to BC Hydro w/ dad-in-law for cheap lunch, then G & I walked him over to the head of Byrne Creek & then headed back thru the forest, then a quick trip to Choices for tortillas (& a coke, yum!) & the evening walk w/ G around the block, sunny gorgeous weather!!!
Meat substitute seems to be a combo of tofu & seitan, I can tell difference but so far is inoffensive... we'll see. Added organic canteloupe to menu, plus all the fixin's including a really lush avocado. sadly, the smoker next door has started their summer smoking frenzy, so our patio and sunroom have to be pretty much closed off and unuseable after 5:15... condo living seamy underbelly!
Meat substitute seems to be a combo of tofu & seitan, I can tell difference but so far is inoffensive... we'll see. Added organic canteloupe to menu, plus all the fixin's including a really lush avocado. sadly, the smoker next door has started their summer smoking frenzy, so our patio and sunroom have to be pretty much closed off and unuseable after 5:15... condo living seamy underbelly!
Monday Jun 18, 2007 #
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weight:58.6kg
punjabi fish (looks similar to butter chicken recipe) prep to be applied to some chum salmon tonight, cleaning-fridge night so intriguing accompaniments in store.
Finish plant baths today, then maybe start work on quilt now that sunroom not so hideous, well, now that it is lovely plant haven once more...
Finish plant baths today, then maybe start work on quilt now that sunroom not so hideous, well, now that it is lovely plant haven once more...
walking 35:00 [1] 1.7 km (20:35 / km)
down the bikepath most of the way, then cut thru woods to top of stairmaster, then along parkway to make it the long way home. Hardly any dogs, still cold air & smooth dark grey skies. Fridge cleaning yielded a mango, enuf veg for a colorful steam, & I found some kelp in the cupboard, so we are having kelp soup wit soba as well, yum.
We found a real fairy circle in the lawn behind Claridges! we were trespassing.
We found a real fairy circle in the lawn behind Claridges! we were trespassing.
Sunday Jun 17, 2007 #
walking 40:00 [1] 2.0 km (20:00 / km)
scouting canoeing put-ins on the Allouette River & Grant Narrows - looks great! cr*ppy weather, got really tired. Leftover chinese from early father's day last night, and watched Joy Luck Club on the iBook w/ popcorn. Parents back from 10 day marathon to Rockies, flooded Skeena route, and Northern Queen - sounds like a blast!
Saturday Jun 16, 2007 #
walking 30:00 [1] 1.4 km (21:26 / km)
marching around in rain with dog. Car shopping Element wins over Sienna, Wrangler Unlimited, & Patriot. Cunningly did not mention we are browsing in prep for purchase in 2009, consequently also (compassionately) refused to waste lotsa reps' time. Just a bit of their time...Dragon Palace for dinner w/ Alfie.
Friday Jun 15, 2007 #
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weight:58.4kg
managed to stay away from DQ last night...today downtown on train to bank & coffee w/ Steve, beef dhansak (pumpkin, I think, in...Hindi? but I'm using zucchini) for dinner, & gonna try & take care of stephanotis, guava, & miserable pomegranite, lil joshua tree seems happy... then we are done. Oh right, all the succulents. we'll see.
walking 1:12:00 [1] 3.7 km (19:28 / km)
this was the downtown thing & 3 dog-walks. Forgot to mention Gypsy stole a cookie from a defenceless child a few days ago - actually it did look alot like kid was offering the cookie (I think she only had processing power for "oooh! yellow dog!" & forgot the cookie in her leading hand) & so G-dog gently took it like it was a robin's egg w/ unbelieving expression on her face like she just won the Dog-Cookie Lottery & toddled off to investigate it (cinnamon-oatmeal-raisin, yum!). Kid is kinda blank, OMG my cookie is gone...adults snorting w/ laughter. Took cookie away from Gyp but let her eat a lil bit since it kinda did get given to her, from her point of view at least.
Thursday Jun 14, 2007 #
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weight:58.2kg
vacuuming & mopping - good for upper body today. Also, as it turns out, alot of gardening, I believe this is called "core" - involving movement in all directions? you bet!
sunroom just got inspected, what a disaster, everything except the tamarind has some kinda problem and there is aphid juice sticking eveything together, may have to ditch the grapefruit tree!?(no way, even if I have to hand-bathe every leaf!) started bathing and tossing - coffee is grumpy, plumeria & koa trees are grumpy, threw out that nasty little chinese arthritis onion cuz it was gross (yay), maybe repot the jade plant which actually seems pretty happy... GAH!!
sunroom just got inspected, what a disaster, everything except the tamarind has some kinda problem and there is aphid juice sticking eveything together, may have to ditch the grapefruit tree!?(no way, even if I have to hand-bathe every leaf!) started bathing and tossing - coffee is grumpy, plumeria & koa trees are grumpy, threw out that nasty little chinese arthritis onion cuz it was gross (yay), maybe repot the jade plant which actually seems pretty happy... GAH!!
walking 30:00 [1] 1.5 km (20:00 / km)
down to the parkway & all along it, blackberries all in bloom. then lots of heel and sit-down-stay. Down is not really working, well sorta starting to, but maybe too late for class this week. It's like everything blew up - no more sit, no more down, these kibbles suck, I'm on a hunger-strike...is this the terrible twos puppystyle?
groomed euphorbia & took cuttings, dragged grapefruit tree on trolley to guest bathroom & shoved it in shower, made bathroom & hall into swamp which segued smoothly into mopping & then tea-break...then we will extract tree from bathroom. Yeah....
groomed euphorbia & took cuttings, dragged grapefruit tree on trolley to guest bathroom & shoved it in shower, made bathroom & hall into swamp which segued smoothly into mopping & then tea-break...then we will extract tree from bathroom. Yeah....
walking 30:00 [1] 1.6 km (18:45 / km)
felt great today, going down hills was not shakey, but strong & firm, wow, it felt good! two additional walks w/ G-dog, feeling a bit uncertain about all this obedience, how much does she need to be able to do, really? oh well, only a few more classes...
did another version of szechuan shrimp/tofu, with greens & noodles this, quite good.
did another version of szechuan shrimp/tofu, with greens & noodles this, quite good.
Wednesday Jun 13, 2007 #
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weight:58.6kg
want to massively attack house - huge plant baths etc - will see if intermittent, gigantic, & bizarre L shoulder pain (WTF?! what is this where did it come from, yow!!!) interfers substantially. oooh, was it from yoga yesterday? don't remember torquing on shoulder, generally very good on that after 21 years...
organic beef stirfry w/ onion & broc... OK, organic meat, I'm a bit uncomfortable w/ that for some reason, but yes meds etc in meat are good to avoid either by not eating meat or...organic meat. In fact, the greatest concern I have re meat is the... transport & slaughter house "mishaps" (growing up on farm I am pretty clear it is OK for me to eat our own critters treated well & killed respectfully) - from what I can gather, "organic" in BC requires standards very close to SPCA certified meat production to prevent that kind of suffering. So for the time being, if we eat meat, we'll eat "organic"....
http://www.spca.bc.ca/farm/StandardsComparison_May...
organic beef stirfry w/ onion & broc... OK, organic meat, I'm a bit uncomfortable w/ that for some reason, but yes meds etc in meat are good to avoid either by not eating meat or...organic meat. In fact, the greatest concern I have re meat is the... transport & slaughter house "mishaps" (growing up on farm I am pretty clear it is OK for me to eat our own critters treated well & killed respectfully) - from what I can gather, "organic" in BC requires standards very close to SPCA certified meat production to prevent that kind of suffering. So for the time being, if we eat meat, we'll eat "organic"....
http://www.spca.bc.ca/farm/StandardsComparison_May...
walking 40:00 [1] 2.0 km (20:00 / km)
this worked out pretty well for feet, even tho I feel the walks were a bit dinky - but pup is pretty drained these days, so maybe short walks are better...
Tuesday Jun 12, 2007 #
walking 1:00:00 [1] 3.1 km (19:21 / km)
two dog-walks about 60 minutes total outside plus walk to station & over to Robin's house - gorgeous w/ cute kids.
Bruno the young boxer tried to eat G's head which oddly she (mostly) loves. He also has substantial romantic interest in her & a resulting astonishing acrobatic ability which enables him to (almost) succeed where all others (of similar stature) have utterly failed.
did the malaysian tofu & broc curry tonight instead of last night. went out to DQ for a chocolate chip cookie dough Blizzard which I was unable to finish. wow.
Bruno the young boxer tried to eat G's head which oddly she (mostly) loves. He also has substantial romantic interest in her & a resulting astonishing acrobatic ability which enables him to (almost) succeed where all others (of similar stature) have utterly failed.
did the malaysian tofu & broc curry tonight instead of last night. went out to DQ for a chocolate chip cookie dough Blizzard which I was unable to finish. wow.
YDY 20:00 [1]
did a wee amount of yoga/range of motion, just to see...
Monday Jun 11, 2007 #
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weight:58.4kg
tofu tonight... malaysian recipe? almond curry? gotta go up to Highgate to Dr. office this AM.
walking 50:00 [1] 2.8 km (17:51 / km)
hmmm, this seems like too much as the feet protest. But instead of compensating unhealthily by chomping tylenol sandwich, vacuuming house, & doing third load of laundry, I make tea (fairtrade & organic Darjeeling) & lure myself into leaving the grime alone & reading about Szechuan shrimp. Annoyed about "junk miles" concept. That's all I do. nhhgggnnh!!
well, anyhoooo, walk around the base of Taylor Park was pretty if a bit muddy, enhanced by backlash from Gypsy's eating a lot of fresh spring grass at the O-meet yesterday and skimping on bulk-providing kibble... turns out this results in phenomenon similar to the traditional christmas festivity of Tinsel-Butt Cat Rodeo....greener but just as exciting.
well, anyhoooo, walk around the base of Taylor Park was pretty if a bit muddy, enhanced by backlash from Gypsy's eating a lot of fresh spring grass at the O-meet yesterday and skimping on bulk-providing kibble... turns out this results in phenomenon similar to the traditional christmas festivity of Tinsel-Butt Cat Rodeo....greener but just as exciting.
walking 15:00 [1] 0.7 km (21:26 / km)
wimped out, took a tylenol, and took G for her early evening walk - met lotsa dogs, pee'd her pants while meeting dogs (hope she stops that when she grows up), about...85 min outside for her w/ me today. Played w/ the cat too, got reall hyper about that!
Sunday Jun 10, 2007 #
walking 42:00 [1] 2.2 km (19:05 / km)
weight:58.4kg
went to pi's second event on the North Shore, POURING rain as we pulled into the parking lot at Cypress Falls, then it cleared & G & I could go for a walk down past baseball game & then back up thru neighborhood, D enjoyed the afternoon run. After that did mostly lil local walks to Quickly Drain the Dog as we went out for Japanese & At World's End, more swashbuckling than you can shake a stick at! too much popcorn, Coke, & chocolate, but sometimes ya just hafta do it !
Finished updating the O-book w/ Sage Stomp, & have just about finished reading canoeing book, lotsa nice routes for the next three summers or so, just here in Lower Mainland.
Finished updating the O-book w/ Sage Stomp, & have just about finished reading canoeing book, lotsa nice routes for the next three summers or so, just here in Lower Mainland.
Saturday Jun 9, 2007 #
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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!
Friday Jun 8, 2007 #
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weight:59kg
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.
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.
walking 28:00 [1] 1.3 km (21:32 / km)
80 minutes outside for puppy as the weather turns gorgeous again, two little walks cuz D said she was tired this morning.
Thursday Jun 7, 2007 #
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weight:59kg
already can feel feet are happier. cool & misty today, maybe smoked salmon pasta, roasted sesame yams...
walking 35:00 [1] 17.0 km (2:04 / km)
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.
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.
Wednesday Jun 6, 2007 #
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weight:59.2kg
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...
walking 20:00 [1] 1.0 km (20:00 / km)
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....
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....
Tuesday Jun 5, 2007 #
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weight:59.6kg
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...
walking 50:00 [1] 2.6 km (19:14 / km)
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!
walking 18:00 [1] 0.9 km (20:00 / km)
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.
Monday Jun 4, 2007 #
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weight:59.4kg
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...
walking 1:00:00 [1] 3.0 km (20:00 / km)
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.
Sunday Jun 3, 2007 #
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weight:59.4kg
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.
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.
walking 24:00 [1] 1.2 km (20:00 / km)
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!
walking 35:00 [1] 1.7 km (20:35 / km)
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.
Saturday Jun 2, 2007 #
walking 45:00 [1] 2.3 km (19:34 / km)
odd day - went over to the airport & sat around outside sniffing the lawn (G-dog) & watching takeoffs (me) while D did some avionics, then off to Iona Beach to picnic & walk (1 km, sorta) on hot black sand & frankly gross low-tide beach (G says YUM) then home while D did more avionics. G & I went for 7pm walk still hot, played w/ Sophie & Joey the Chin & G's cat friend. Did 10pm walk & it WAS cooler outside, met Callista & owner quoted greek philosopher & related a buddhist teaching-fable which honestly was a bit more interesting than the usual dog-owner conversation....
Friday Jun 1, 2007 #
walking 35:00 [1] 1.6 km (21:52 / km)
down the woods along the creek where it is cool. 75 minutes outside. Great weather.