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Monday 11-2-2026

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I hope the link above works with the image. This is the cutest thing.

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I just finished eating the remainder of my first lunch in Chiang Mai. (Sorry to type with my mouth full. ) I have been hovering on the low end of my weight range for several weeks now. I’ve also been hungry at lunch time and then after coming back from the cafe. Brian and I decided that he would order a lunch for me to be delivered daily. The focus of this place is healthy food. I was delighted by my lunch today. There was a hard boiled egg, some nice slivers of beef, a nice fried rice type thing, lightly saute’ed carrot slices, a piece of broccoli, a teeny tiny “cocktail” piece of corn on the cob, and some lettuce. I ate a little more than half at lunchtime and put the rest in the fridge to eat after I got home from the cafe. I’ve just finished this and it was truly wonderful, very satisfying and good for me, to boot! We’ll see what my weight does, but I wasn’t hungry mid day, and that helps me NOT to cave and go buy some chips or something ‘awful’ like that… Our trial is for one week.

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I did well at the gym this morning. I walked 20 minutes on an incline of 12%. The first 5 minutes I was going from 0% to 12% in increments, and the last 5 minutes I was decreasing the incline as a cool-down. I felt good during and afterward. No bad side effects. :0)

Before the cafe I did a good session of old lady yoga stretches. I’m incorporating leg lifts in this to strengthen my core muscles, hopefully.

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Here is a link to the latest article I published on Substack, called, “Okay. Now That You’ve Lost the Lard…Just the Beginning – Mindset-Maintenance-Pictures & Sketches”

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I had a good session at the cafe. Cartoon, the owner of the cafe, came in – showing me that most of the wrapping has now been removed from her arm on which she had surgery recently. She had just been to the doctor. I gave her an encouragement card that she liked. We visited a bit, and it was really nice.

Here are my latest sketches –

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The Modern Collective – Cindy Heidmann

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Saturday 10-21-2023

Efraïm Rodríguez Cobos – http://www.efraimrodriguez.net

I love this sculpture. I don’t know what it is about it that makes me want to put a hand on his head or squeeze his shoulder. Just love it.

I just finished a video chat with our son, who lives across the world from us. Before he left several years ago, he set up a secure chat program that he trusts and also a video program where we can see each other while we visit. Between the two, the only thing missing is his truly magnificent hugs. I feel so happy inside right now after getting to see his face – and his smiles. He is doing what he wants to do, living where he is comfortable, happy, and as safe as is possible in our world today. That’s all we can ask.

Open Door Yoga

My renewal of efforts to do my old lady yoga stretches each day are bearing fruit (hold your raspberries, please). :0) I had overdone doing yard work and my back was yelling at me. After coddling myself for several days, I started trying my yoga stretches again. I’m still pretty stiff, but it’s taking me less time to relax and start “breathing-into-the-stretches” each day. I’m adding something new to my stretches, too, so I’m hopeful I’ll be back where I was soon.

It is warmer than usual these days, here. It’s nice and cool at night, and we’ve turned off the a/c, but it’s supposed to get to 87 this afternoon – quite unusual for October here. Since the humidity is down, all we’re doing to be comfortable is opening the doors and using the ceiling fans. I could use a whole bunch of this nice weather! I’m going to try to do a short session of yard work today.

I hope you enjoy your Saturday and are doing something fun.

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