Training Log Archive: Yukon King

continuing anti-vegetable campaign - created big pot of chili with extraneous vegetables added. Boy does it taste delicious and it is all bright colors, so pretty. And cleansingly fibrous too. not vegan though...overall O-food, I think.

slightly longer puppy loop in absolutely pouring rain. Oddly no other doggies out to play with. VERY tired today, what's up with that.

0.7km/0.4km/0.7km/0.4km is 2.2 km total - a slightly longer puppy loop (I think her leg is getting better!!) & scampering around Metrotown to bank, pick up meds, latte, & some marrow bones for puppy & gai lan for us.
Now at home I realize I have a "problem" with vegetables - the two drawers are stuffed and so now is the lowest shelf of the fridge. (1) I must stop buying vegetables & fruits and (2) we must start eating them at maximum speed. Accordingly, huge onion-asparagus-mushroon stirfry, peppers & carrots to crunch, & mango-kiwi-orange fruit salad (along w/ quinoa and baked beans) for dinner. It was so good! and completely O-food in the same vein as cinnamon & apples....

D's photo class tonight so the girls will party, but only slightly so Gypsy's leg continues to heal...these small walks are purgatory. Heavy rain. Yesterday I found out bro is getting married October, Derek got a promotion, & Robin is taking a year's leave. Yoicks!

two puppy loops - 0.5km/0.6km. She is losing her baby-teeth & boy is she annoyed. Tore up a room full of cardboard box-toys, keeps going into the bathroom and bringing me rolls of toiletpaper (knows she isnt supposed to tear them up, so she carries them like baby ducklings) but now I gave her a softened rawhide to chew on...kinda like gum. Spent most of the day working out logistics for N Island, W States, & Barebones - dog-friendly accommodations, 500km daily legs, canoeing destinations...

forgot to add in the stretches etc I do to keep feet from hurting during the 2+ hrs I am outside (these puppy-healing days) with only about 20 minutes equivalent of walking. Very mellow.

rainy today again. Leftover salmon, wild rice mix, carrot and asparagus, & a salad of parched corn, tomatoes & cilantro. Maybe sumthin w/ pumpkin & the leftover ricotta? pretty much O-food.

0.6km/0.5km/0.5km two puppy loops & a quick trip for bread.

time to cook for the dad-in-law, Alfie's comin' over w/ an apple pie - so, salmon w/ Mr. Pepin's oriental touch (half a salmon has been gently bathing since yesterday in fridge in soy, garlic, ginger, sugar, scallions, & sesame oil), rice, broccoli N oyster sauce, carrots in sweet butter, bleu cheese & pita crisps, & an asian salad w/ tahini dressing, should be sweet!

two teeny puppy loops in the warm spring-like neighborhood, Gypsy was low-energy for the noon walk, slept in front of fire or in her lil bed before and after, but she did eat her lunch. Much perkier for 4:30 walk, now she is destroying a cardboard egg carton with two kibbles inside (cheap toys, heheh). I need to HTFU about this limping thing. Vet visit on Sat, if it doesn't correct on its own.

snuck in a few minutes of stretches etc while Gypsy teethed on sticks, bark, & pinecones out in the forest.

oooh, that is what a weekend involving pizza, Coke, a visit to an establishment called the "Kansas City Bar-B-Q Shack" and Dairy Queen will do for ya! what fun! (oh yeah, preceded by a whole chocolate bar & a bacon cheeseburger on Friday, what a run)
Had a touch of fever last night but it broke aorund 4AM after the puppy walk, felt much better but will take it easy today...

more stealth yoga-stuff in the forest as we stare at the bush where the black squirrel went.

0.7km/0.4km/0.4km/0.4km/0.8km, total 2.7 km, two very slow puppy loops (snowdrops, liverworts, mosses), visit to Dr., latte, Esprit sales center...I have successfully duplicated red Thai curry (NOT O-food, too much luscious coconut milk!) and Libby's baked beans (what a triumph! and it qualifies as fibrous O-food as well!)

did some of the less overt standing stuff, while meandering with puppy for 40 minutes over 0.4km, which works out to an average speed of 2 feet per second, (I think) very fast for... a mouse.

0.4km/0.4km/0.7km, groceries, two puppy loops, longer one with D, still trying to minimize exercise and help her get over her limp. As noted, the 0.4 Puppy Classic, took a magnificent 40 minutes with much sniffing and mauling of vegetation. It was relaxing.