Marc John Israel Crayon Art 2
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How Do You Carve YOUR Pumpkin? 10-16-2020
I love the idea of using dry ice!
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Another One Bites the Dust
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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Stone Art
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Ahhhh!
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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Animal Friends 2
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Marc John Israel Crayon Art
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How Do You Carve YOUR Pumpkin? 10-14-2020
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What If…
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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Hooray!
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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Animal Friends
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Kristina Nelson Crayon Art 2
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How Do You Carve YOUR Pumpkin? 10-13-2020
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Thoughts on a Tuesday 10-13-2020
We have two more Indian-Summer-Like days and then we are SUPPOSED to get back to celebrating fall here. I’m ready.
We saw what we THINK might be the last hummingbird of the season this morning. I realize that there is a huge group of people who say I should put the feeder away at the beginning of October to encourage the hummers to fly south. There is a BIG voice, though, in my head that asks what the hummers will do if they stop for fuel and there isn’t any. So I keep the feeder out until it’s clear that no one else needs it.
I lost pound # 41 this morning!
We discovered that it was Columbus Day yesterday – trying to mail a used book we sold on Amazon and finding the post office was closed, and then checking our mailbox on the way home and finding it empty. We will try again today. (I usually look at my desk calendar, but I had written so much on it that the small holiday notice didn’t show. :0(
The Window World representative came yesterday afternoon and was able to find serial numbers on BOTH of the windows that we need to have replaced! The one in the dining area window set was in the frame of the right side. The man opened the window, sliding one part to the left and looked up to find it. The other one I could see when I got up on a stool and looked down at the bottom part of the window. (Have I mentioned that I’m height-challenged?) ANYHOW – they will order the replacements and will call us when they are ready to come out again.
We took our truck to the man who will replace the headliner that is sagging. He will call us this afternoon when he is ready for us to come pick it up. My to-do list is finally getting shorter!!!
Did I tell you I’m in love with this man’s face? He is probably in his 80’s. He has the most wonderful smile. I told my husband that I was in love. He took it in stride, since this man is just one of many on my list – which includes Tom Selleck showing up at our front door and telling me he wants me to run away with him…
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Word Play
“Lexophile” describes those who have a love for words, such as “you can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish”, “To write with a broken pencil is pointless.”
An annual competition is held by the New York Times to see who can create the best original lexophile. This year’s submissions:
“I changed my iPod’s name to Titanic. It’s syncing now.
England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool.
Haunted French pancakes give me the crepes.
This girl today said she recognized me from the Vegetarians Club, but I’d swear I’ve never met herbivore.
I know a guy who’s addicted to drinking brake fluid, but he says he can stop any time.
A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
When the smog lifts in Los Angeles U.C.L.A.
I got some batteries that were given out free of charge.
A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail.
A will is a dead giveaway.
With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
Police were summoned to a daycare center where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
Did you hear about the fellow whose entire left side was cut off? He’s all right now.
A bicycle can’t stand alone; it’s just two tired.
The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine last week is now fully recovered.
He had a photographic memory but it was never fully developed.
When she saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she’d dye.
Acupuncture is a jab well done. That’s the point of it.
I didn’t like my beard at first. Then it grew on me.
Did you hear about the crossed-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn’t control her pupils?
When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble.
When chemists die, they barium.
I stayed up all night to see where the sun went, and then it dawned on me.
I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can’t put it down.
Those who get too big for their pants will be totally exposed in the end.”
(*forwarded to me by a good friend.)
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Free
I’m feeling rich because I have a nice stack of books to read.
I just finished John Grisham’s The Guardians and have started an old favorite of Nora Robert’s.
Being able to ‘climb’ onto my new recliner (I mentioned that I’m a bit height-challenged) cover up with my cozy throw – cup of coffee beside me and a book in my hand – is one of the nicest ways I know to spend some time each day.
Whether I’m reading to learn something, or escaping into another world for awhile, reading is priceless. My favorite authors list continues to grow because thankfully there are numerous talented people out there either explaining how to do what they do so well, or transporting me to a place I can worry about someone else’s problems or share their joy.
I started learning to read very early, after shocking my parents with a bad word when I looked around our living room one day. My mom was working the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle. My dad was immersed in a gorgeous geology book. My brother was sprawled on the couch with a comic book (now called a graphic novel). I looked in frustration from one to the other, finally announcing, “I wish to HELL I could read!” Everyone looked at me. My brother smirked because he knew I was in trouble. My dad was just staring at me. My mom, who had a small dog on each side of her in her chair, put down her puzzle and came over to me.
Instead of being angry, she grabbed a book, sat down beside me, and proceeded to start teaching me to make sense of the marks in the book. It was one of the very best gifts anyone ever gave me.
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How Do You Carve YOUR Pumpkin? 10-12-2020
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Height
I have been encouraging Lynn Moody, my miraculous massage therapist, to help me with this problem.
She does a wonderful thing by pulling on each of my arms and legs, plus my head, during each massage. (She is quite tactful – not saying anything about ‘pulling my head out of my ___.’ ) Not only does this FEEL great, I’m hopeful that if she REALLY works on it, I will get taller.
If I can get taller by about 4 inches, it would solve my lardage problem AND allow me to retrieve things that are out of my reach now!
Maybe she will redouble her efforts if I take her some chocolate at my massage this week…
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Kristina Nelson Crayon Art
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Hello, Monday
I hope that your week is starting off well.
The representative from Window World is supposed to be here this afternoon to make sure which windows need to be replaced, measure, match up serial numbers, etc.
When that is done, we will call the man who will replace the headliner in the truck for us, leaving our truck with him.
The day’s project will be catching up with the weed whacking needed, plus hopefully spraying KillzAll on the weeds we need to get rid of.
The Indian Summer we’ve been having for the past week will give way to fall once again mid-week, and I will welcome that with open arms.
Have a wonderful first day of the week!
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Inner Fatty
I gained a pound this morning. :0(
I KNOW. I’m probably just retaining water or not holding my mouth right, but it DOES make not eating more difficult.
I ALSO know that some people tell you that you shouldn’t weigh every day. If I don’t, it’s as if I have a ‘pass’ for the day and it doesn’t matter if I eat an ‘extra bite or two.’ If I know I’m going to have to get on the scales the next morning- fingers crossed to see some improvement for my efforts, I have more motivation to NOT eat.
On the good side, my jeans ARE getting looser. I am down 41 – make that 40 this morning – pounds and almost 38 inches since my lardiest.
Our new eating program, where we are eating a HEALTHY frozen food prepared by one of the two new local places in town – REAL FOOD or STU’S CLEAN COOKIN’ – eating tuna fish salad for lunch and a careful snack mid-afternoon – seems to be keeping us on track. On the weekends I am cooking, but combining something we have missed with careful cooking and attention to portions. Yesterday I fixed pork chops and black-eyed peas with onion. We’ll eat the leftovers from that tonight.
For the past week I have been working hard in the garden, trying to get it protected from the winter and mostly prepared for spring planting. This involves about an hour a day of standing on my head in various trash cans filling up buckets for the recipe of Mel’s Mix, a soil alternative for my raised bed square foot garden. I then haul a big plastic yard pail full of Mel’s Mix over to the garden, lift it and dump it in the middle of one of my planter boxes, then spread it around. Because I have been doing this every day, I have not done my ‘regular’ exercise.
Now that the garden project is finished, I will go back to yoga stretching every day and my elliptical trainer at least three times a week, if not daily.
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Crayon Art 2
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Focus on Floors
My big plans today focus on floors.
In the past two days I vacuumed all of the tiled areas on the first floor: dining area, kitchen, pantry, utility room, two half-baths and a small area in-between the kitchen and the living room.
Yesterday I vacuumed the first floor carpeted areas, mainly to get ready for our new chairs to arrive.
Today I will actually WASH the tiled areas, plus I’m going to clean up our back porch so that we have the option to eat out there again. With several storms in our area, I stacked chairs and pulled all to the more sheltered end of the porch.
With all the problems in the world, I am concentrating on things I can do something about. My floors are one of them…
Happy Sunday!
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