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6282 steps, 3 cups fruit/veg
I'm off to a good start! Reece and I just finished a walk.
I think I'll be boiling up some potatoes tonight...after all, I just bought a 5 lb. bag yesterday. I'll get some of those Green Giant one-serving containers of broccoli with cheddar sauce. Those are low in fat and calories (so says the package) and nuke those to pour over the potatoes. That'll be lunch this coming week.
I added extra fruit to my parfait this morning and ate a bowl of Chinese cabbage salad for lunch. Not quite sure what's for dinner tonight...guess it depends on whatever strikes my fancy at the commissary.
Just waiting for the Vikes game to be over.
I just filled the bird feeder again...those birds are such pigs! I think the squirrels probably knock out most of the seeds and then the Steller's Jays come and eat whatever is on the ground. Aside from the chickadees that have been visiting, I saw a Spotted Towhee yesterday. That was a new one for me. I need some binoculars though, so I can get a closer look. But the Towhee is quite distinct, so I can't really mistake it for anything else. I was looking at it and then looking down at its picture in my field guide and comparing. No question.
I'm glad Mom urged me to put up a feeder. Until I set it up, I only ever saw crows and jays in our backyard.
I'm having issues with spiders again...the same horror I dealt with in Germany. This house is exactly everything we said we didn't want. It has shrubs all around the front entrance like our house in Germany, which invite spiders to set up house, and I was pretty adamant about not wanting that in the first place (but the rhododendrons are so pretty when in bloom). I tried to walk out the front door yesterday and several spiders had built webs from one side of the sidewalk to the other, so I had to go out through the garage and get the broom and sweep them away. Lance is all about getting pesticides to deal with it, but I still don't want to resort to that if I can help it. But none of the organic methods I tried in Germany worked.
I think I'll be boiling up some potatoes tonight...after all, I just bought a 5 lb. bag yesterday. I'll get some of those Green Giant one-serving containers of broccoli with cheddar sauce. Those are low in fat and calories (so says the package) and nuke those to pour over the potatoes. That'll be lunch this coming week.
I added extra fruit to my parfait this morning and ate a bowl of Chinese cabbage salad for lunch. Not quite sure what's for dinner tonight...guess it depends on whatever strikes my fancy at the commissary.
Just waiting for the Vikes game to be over.
I just filled the bird feeder again...those birds are such pigs! I think the squirrels probably knock out most of the seeds and then the Steller's Jays come and eat whatever is on the ground. Aside from the chickadees that have been visiting, I saw a Spotted Towhee yesterday. That was a new one for me. I need some binoculars though, so I can get a closer look. But the Towhee is quite distinct, so I can't really mistake it for anything else. I was looking at it and then looking down at its picture in my field guide and comparing. No question.
I'm glad Mom urged me to put up a feeder. Until I set it up, I only ever saw crows and jays in our backyard.
I'm having issues with spiders again...the same horror I dealt with in Germany. This house is exactly everything we said we didn't want. It has shrubs all around the front entrance like our house in Germany, which invite spiders to set up house, and I was pretty adamant about not wanting that in the first place (but the rhododendrons are so pretty when in bloom). I tried to walk out the front door yesterday and several spiders had built webs from one side of the sidewalk to the other, so I had to go out through the garage and get the broom and sweep them away. Lance is all about getting pesticides to deal with it, but I still don't want to resort to that if I can help it. But none of the organic methods I tried in Germany worked.
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good luck with the spider problem - so far I haven't noticed that many here(knock on wood) but they were a CONSTANT thorn in my side in Germany. and there is nothing I hate worse than spiders. ick.
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Lake Meridian is a great park, although as you said, you can't really have a good walk there.