I've spent a lot of time outdoors the last few days and it as been enriching.
Saturday Karen and I went to an outdoor wedding reception. Sunny, warm, nice to barefoot over clean cut grass.
Sunday after Church, Suzy and Harry invited me to a picnic with their Izaak Walton League group. Before we ate Harry and I and Jackie took a 50 minute hike in the woods. The woods were steamy and warm but we saw lots of nature: snails, fish in creeks, ferns, a flock of turkeys (a hen and about seven chicks), and all manner of trees. It was a perfect barefoot hike over a wonderful array of surfaces: mud, sticks, rocks, streams, moss, leaves, dirt, grass.
Later on Sunday I took a group from Timbercrest to see the Fort Wayne Tin Caps play baseball. We didn't have sunny seats (thankfully), but it was nice and the atmosphere of the ball park is almost as I remember it as a kid. The exception, of course, is there is no cigar smoke. :-)
Today went for a walk-jog in the early evening. It was still 90 degrees at 8:30, so it was a little hard going for a fat old man, but I moved over two miles and jogged about 1.5 of it. The warm evening had its own magic, and the thick clouds that held in the heat all day gave way to a black dome of the sky spangled with stars.
Here's the journal:
Saturday: weighed 235.6, up .6 from Friday's unexpected low
Breakfast: three egg cheese omelette, three strips of bacon
Dinner: None (breakfast was at 10:30 a.m.)
Snack: Can of V8 and a cheese stick
Supper: pulled pork with no BBQ sauce, lots of fresh veggies, a few baked beans
Sunday: weighed 235.6, same as yesterday
Breakfast: three fried eggs (in Crisco no-fat cooking spray)
Dinner: Hamburg on a bun, cole slaw, baked beans
Supper: Hot dog, chips, peanuts (a Tin Caps game)
Snack: String cheese
Today: weighed 236.2, up .6, I think thanks to the picnic and ball game
Breakfast: single egg omelette with cheese and smoked sausage, V8
Dinner: bbq beef with very little sauce, steak dianne with fat trimmed and no sauce
Snack: Low-carb burger w/o cheese at Hardee's
Supper: Stuffed green peppers, about 1/2 c rice with muchrooms and basil
That's all for now - I'm sorry about the delay in posts: computer's acting up again. I hope I don't need to take it in :-(
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