As you can see from the tomatoes, onions, and roses, I spent some time working in the yard yesterday.
It will probably rain today – in fact it’s dark and gloomy outside right now – so it’s good I got most of the weed whacking done and used the leaf blower to tidy things up a bit.
We will run errands today – and try to vote on the first day of early voting here in Arkansas, and then we’ll be in the rest of the day. Here’s hoping we don’t drown in the rain!
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I pulled these out of the garden – only a few at a time due to an infestation of fire ants living in my raised bed, square foot planters. I spread them to dry on a trailer that has a nice metal mesh bed perfect for this.
Yesterday my husband cleaned them off with a hose while I was weed whacking. I will finish cleaning them up today, putting them in mesh bags to hang from hooks in our pantry.
I hope that they are nice and sweet.
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I keep putting it on my list to clean out the tomato planters, but then I find lots of little bitty tomatoes! This happened again yesterday, so I will enjoy each and every one as long as I can. :0)
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I had a pretty productive day yesterday.
The first thing I did was exchange my warm weather clothes for my cool weather clothes in my closet upstairs. I still have some organizing to do, and I’m promising myself that I will try everything on, looking for things to donate, but the main job is done.
I did dinner prep, getting “Bacon-wrapped Cheesy Chicken Breasts”, a recipe by Suzanne Ryan of Simply Keto ready to put in the oven later. (I made enough for Saturday and Sunday evening, with another quarter of a chicken breast for lunch Monday.) The breasts are quite large, so I spit them in half lengthwise. A serving is half a chicken breast.
We eat in front of the TV. My husband stopped the program we were watching to tell me, “This is delicious.” :0)
This is a busy time for work in the yard. (I get re-energized for this because of the weather cooling off, and try to get things in reasonable shape for the winter.) Yesterday I took the loppers and cut off several branches of a tree where my husband had to duck while mowing the grass. I also cut down several what we call ‘weed trees’ that spring up suddenly each year, getting taller than I am, but remaining quite slim. They are everywhere, but these were too close around our burn barrel. I cleared a good area around the barrel and then stopped for the day. Working with the loppers gets to my arms and shoulders pretty quickly.
I hope that you had a good day, too!
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Our recently adopted eating program of eating a healthy food frozen meal from one of two new local places is working pretty well for us.
We have suffered through the prepared meal programs of Nutrisystem, South Beach, and BistroMD. We lost some weight, but they either didn’t have food we liked or discontinued the items we DID like.
We also tried straight keto, using a wonderful recipe book called Simply Keto by Suzanne Ryan. We really like the recipes, but were having trouble sticking to the suggested portions.
Now we are eating one of the frozen meals from either REAL FOOD or STU’S CLEAN COOKIN’ in Greenwood each day of the work week. That is our main meal of the day. I make a tuna fish salad for our lunch (I eat some green olives and my husband eats some sweet pickles), and that’s our eating day. I cook something from the Simply Keto cookbook for the weekend.
Today I will cook “Bacon-Wrapped Cheesy Chicken Breasts.” We will add a side veggie. Tomorrow we will have leftovers/reruns with a side salad.
I am getting a good amount of exercise with all the yard work that needs to be done this time of the year (today is lopping off hanging branches in the yard plus spraying KillzAll weed killer in various places), plus I’m trying to get a house project done inside. (Today is switching my warm weather clothes for cool weather clothes in my closet.)
We are slowly and steadily losing weight and enjoying our meals – a really nice combination.
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I love the idea of using dry ice!
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Another pound has bitten the dust this morning! I am now down 42 pounds.
My scale isn’t sending up balloons, celebratory fireworks or anything, but it’s nice to see the downward trend.
May it continue.
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I will leave soon to get a massage this morning.
I discovered how amazing it is several years ago when I was working as a medical transcriptionist/bookkeeper for a medical office that included 8 busy general surgeons. I had worked so long and hard trying to keep up with things – working 12 to 14-hour days – that I was unable to take my blouse off over my head at night.
I went to the doc who recommended I continue my swimming and whirlpool at the local gym after work, but also to add massages. My insurance wouldn’t cover massages, but I decided I really needed help.
Long story short, the massage therapist saved my life. It took several weeks of two massages per week, but she unknotted my back and neck miraculously.
Even though I am working for myself now, I consider massage an important part of taking care of myself.
My therapist is having surgery next month, so it will be a character-building exercise for selfish me to wait until she is thoroughly healed (I think in March) and we can continue.
Massage is a wonderful gift you can give yourself to help you deal with the rest of your life without ending up with your body in a knot. :0)
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Tonight is our ‘shopping’ night.
This afternoon, the Real Food website will post its offerings for the week in its preorder section. We have been a bit disappointed the last couple of weeks because they haven’t had many options. They told me when we first found them that they were excited about expanding their selections in their brick and mortar store in Greenwood and would like to cut back on the online preorder stuff. We may have to change our habits and go into the store to see what is available if they continue this trend. We got spoiled really quickly. :0)
When we see what Real Food is offering, we will then consider ordering from Stu’s Clean Cookin.’ They were closed last week, reorganizing in order to drop the third party that was doing much of their prep and cooking in order to do it again themselves. They were unhappy with the quality of the meals, though we thought they were quite good. Their menu doesn’t seem to change. They have 17 meals, though, so there is a good variety.
Our routine now is to eat something frozen 5 nights a week. I then cook something on Saturday that covers us for Sat, Sun, plus maybe a lunch on Monday, depending on the recipe. (This weekend I’ll cook bacon-wrapped chicken breasts and we’ll have veggies or a salad on the side.) This routine helps us a LOT with portion control, is helping us lose the lardage, and allows us to concentrate on things other than food.
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We just got home from picking up our truck.
We took it to Terry Underwood with a sagging headliner that almost looked as if a tent had collapsed on us.
He brought out a sheet that had swatches from which we could choose. We left the truck with him yesterday afternoon.
Today he called, saying the material he received wasn’t the right one, expecting us to want him to order again. The truck is getting on in years (like its owners), so we just told him to use what he had received.
The material blends nicely with the rest of the interior. It isn’t noticeable that it doesn’t ‘match.’ Terry was a bit upset over it, but it looks GOOD. He did a great job for us.
We discovered that his main business is on boats, but that he also does work on vehicles, as he did for us.
If you are in this vicinity and need a replacement, this is a man who takes pride in his work. He communicates really well, gives you a fair price, does what he says he will do – a rare thing these days.
Terry Underwood’s phone number is on the card above. He definitely deserves your business.
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