I swear I heard a Robin but I haven't seen it.
Got my hour of fighting snow in while walking more fence. I took the snowshoes along though and that made a world of difference! Had to dig a whole bottom line out of the snow that was plowed on top of it. A ceramic fence insulator is broken off a post so I'll have to get another and replace it. Meanwhile I wound the line up onto the line above it for now to keep it off the ground. I've got 2.2k volts on the line now which is better than the .06 I was getting. It is a start. What I need is my fencer back from husband which is large enough to handle the amount of line I have. I was sick of loose cows though and since he didn't want to be bothered with the fence I put my high powered one on so even if the wires are draining somewhere there is till 5-6k on the line to keep those boneheads in. But with spring on its way he is going to have to get his own so I can have mine back.
Well, now it is blowing rain, looks like sheets of rain which is kicking up a ground fog. Ugh. Do I want to drive an hour in the dark in a fog????? ARGH!!
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Happy St. Patricks Day!
Will I see a Robin today? Perhaps. Usually I do by today. Rumors are they are south of us but none here yet that I have seen. Maybe today. It is to be nearly 50!
I skipped meeting this week. I had been in town earlier but it is so small there is no place to wile away three hour before the meeting unless one wants to eat. And I just couldn't justify driving the half hour back for meeting. So no official weigh-in this week.
I have been very off too. It is like I just can't get with the program. I don't know if it is the weather, working the one day (and having two other post offices calling me this week to cover for them), my body being beat from the Shuffle, the calf problems (more on that in a minute), time change or what. I am just totally out of it! After a month of being focused and feeling good about it I just am in a slump.
The bathtub calf is still alive. She is back on her mother but I checked on her and I think her mother is dry (no milk). She's always been a good cow so why no milk is beyond me. So husband (they are his project) is bottle feeding it and we are watching and hoping all the working over that calf is giving her mom that milk will come in. Cows are born trying to die. It is frustrating.
Anyway, she was in the bathtub because it was frigid outside the day she was born and she wasn't regulating her own temperature. Husband thought her last year's calf (he didn't get her weaned off...live and learn) sucked Connie (mama) dry of the colostrum so we also had to find, buy and feed the calf colostrum. It made for a really long Sunday for me, LOL as I was the one driving all over creation to get the colostrum. Anyway, calf looks good, is up and working up though she still looks like a newborn. She has a sibling born a few hour later with no issues and that one looks older already.
Here are some pix...
My exercise yesterday was walking a section of fence several times in knee deep snow. Nope, not smart enough to take the snowshoes figuring really, what could possibly be wrong with the fence? Well, how about broken wires from deer, broken fence insulators, lines buried under 3' of snow and ice? 1 1/2 hour later I was roasting to death, legs soaked and hurting despite knee high boots I still haven't found where it is shorting out. And every day it is warm is a day everyone gets a lot more frisky and stupid. So it needs to be done NOW!
Ok, so big plans for working on ME today is tonight there is a track club program being put on at the Borders book store at 7pm. 7pm is really late for me because I have the hour drive back then BUT it is on foot and ankle injuries and preventing them. Then the speaker, a podiatrist, will evaluate our feet! Yes! I am kicking myself for spring cleaning two weeks ago as I threw out all my old shoes and really, they would have been good to see a wear pattern. I never throw anything out. You know how it goes. Anywho, my feet feel back to normal but for a dull ache where I have been having issues. I am glad for that because it will be easier to point it out. So I do need to scrub my tooties before I go...
I skipped meeting this week. I had been in town earlier but it is so small there is no place to wile away three hour before the meeting unless one wants to eat. And I just couldn't justify driving the half hour back for meeting. So no official weigh-in this week.
I have been very off too. It is like I just can't get with the program. I don't know if it is the weather, working the one day (and having two other post offices calling me this week to cover for them), my body being beat from the Shuffle, the calf problems (more on that in a minute), time change or what. I am just totally out of it! After a month of being focused and feeling good about it I just am in a slump.
The bathtub calf is still alive. She is back on her mother but I checked on her and I think her mother is dry (no milk). She's always been a good cow so why no milk is beyond me. So husband (they are his project) is bottle feeding it and we are watching and hoping all the working over that calf is giving her mom that milk will come in. Cows are born trying to die. It is frustrating.
Anyway, she was in the bathtub because it was frigid outside the day she was born and she wasn't regulating her own temperature. Husband thought her last year's calf (he didn't get her weaned off...live and learn) sucked Connie (mama) dry of the colostrum so we also had to find, buy and feed the calf colostrum. It made for a really long Sunday for me, LOL as I was the one driving all over creation to get the colostrum. Anyway, calf looks good, is up and working up though she still looks like a newborn. She has a sibling born a few hour later with no issues and that one looks older already.
Here are some pix...
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| Bathtub calf. Good thing I scrubbed all that tile! |
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| Bathtub calf working it. Too bad mama ain't cooperating! |
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| Second 2011 calf, doing it right. |
Ok, so big plans for working on ME today is tonight there is a track club program being put on at the Borders book store at 7pm. 7pm is really late for me because I have the hour drive back then BUT it is on foot and ankle injuries and preventing them. Then the speaker, a podiatrist, will evaluate our feet! Yes! I am kicking myself for spring cleaning two weeks ago as I threw out all my old shoes and really, they would have been good to see a wear pattern. I never throw anything out. You know how it goes. Anywho, my feet feel back to normal but for a dull ache where I have been having issues. I am glad for that because it will be easier to point it out. So I do need to scrub my tooties before I go...
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Change in Breakfast and Upcoming Foot Eval.
Husband made oatmeal this morning.
Could have knocked me over with a feather. Just oatmeal in a bowl with water microwaved and way too much of it but sure was a change from his usual bunch of eggs, cheese, sausage, ham and toast.
I informed him he needs to eat a little protein too to help it stick.
Today I want to try and find steel cut oats and make the crockpot recipe I saw on WW. It claims to make 8 or 9 servings and claims to reheat nicely. Sounds good to me and husband will get a better breakfast than his usual handful of striped shortbread cookies.
I am so glad I joined the ITC. This Thursday they are having a podiatrist come in to explain foot injuries at the Borders. Then afterward he will evaluate feet! I need that as my one foot always aches under the ball and down into the arch when I walk. Yes, part is weight but at the first 5K I wore two pair socks and they were fairly snug to support it. Worked good for the most part except a couple times my feet felt like they were numb. Too much. Yesterday I didn't and it hurt. So I need a foot eval, shoe recommendation and see if perhaps taping will help. Here is hoping for good weather at 7pm as it is an hour drive there and home.
I may even paint my toenails (after I scrub the nastiness off my feet. Shave at least my ankles too, LOL. A bit hard with a calf in your tub.)
Could have knocked me over with a feather. Just oatmeal in a bowl with water microwaved and way too much of it but sure was a change from his usual bunch of eggs, cheese, sausage, ham and toast.
I informed him he needs to eat a little protein too to help it stick.
Today I want to try and find steel cut oats and make the crockpot recipe I saw on WW. It claims to make 8 or 9 servings and claims to reheat nicely. Sounds good to me and husband will get a better breakfast than his usual handful of striped shortbread cookies.
I am so glad I joined the ITC. This Thursday they are having a podiatrist come in to explain foot injuries at the Borders. Then afterward he will evaluate feet! I need that as my one foot always aches under the ball and down into the arch when I walk. Yes, part is weight but at the first 5K I wore two pair socks and they were fairly snug to support it. Worked good for the most part except a couple times my feet felt like they were numb. Too much. Yesterday I didn't and it hurt. So I need a foot eval, shoe recommendation and see if perhaps taping will help. Here is hoping for good weather at 7pm as it is an hour drive there and home.
I may even paint my toenails (after I scrub the nastiness off my feet. Shave at least my ankles too, LOL. A bit hard with a calf in your tub.)
Sleepless Night
Was it the pain from yesterday that kept me up all night? Heck no. So why didn't I sleep? Because I had a calf in my bathtub which is right on the other side of the bedroom wall. Yes, you read right, a CALF (as in cow) in my newly scrubbed tub.
Husband wasn't ready for calves and yesterday it was just downright nasty and this baby got chilled so in he came. Husband can sleep through a hurricane so it was my job to poke him when he needed to get up and take care of it. The cattle are his project and he's let me know more than once my experience and help is not wanted until he asks for it so I stay out of it. Fine with me, I am not a big fan of cattle anyway. They are a lot of work and born trying to die so he can have them. I get more than my fair share repairing my fences they tear down anyway.
"Tuffy" got hauled back out to mama today and lo and behold, there is another one out there. 14 to go. Have a party.
I have to thank my favorite homeopathic pain and stiffness remedy for taking care of the aches and pains of yesterday. I highly recommend a product called Arniflora Arnica Gel. Excellent stuff and doesn't smell.
Now I have to go scrub calf poo out of my shower...
Husband wasn't ready for calves and yesterday it was just downright nasty and this baby got chilled so in he came. Husband can sleep through a hurricane so it was my job to poke him when he needed to get up and take care of it. The cattle are his project and he's let me know more than once my experience and help is not wanted until he asks for it so I stay out of it. Fine with me, I am not a big fan of cattle anyway. They are a lot of work and born trying to die so he can have them. I get more than my fair share repairing my fences they tear down anyway.
"Tuffy" got hauled back out to mama today and lo and behold, there is another one out there. 14 to go. Have a party.
I have to thank my favorite homeopathic pain and stiffness remedy for taking care of the aches and pains of yesterday. I highly recommend a product called Arniflora Arnica Gel. Excellent stuff and doesn't smell.
Now I have to go scrub calf poo out of my shower...
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Shamrock Shuffle
Gads I am feeling kinda' lousy. Not sick but my period is "readjusting" herself again and I am 8 days late and feeling it! I am teetering on the precipice called "50" and so all that BS too. Other than crazy manic anxiety ridden angry psycho I'm going to drive away and never look back, maybe if I turn the wheel a little to the right I'll go off that bridge, so far the transitioning hasn't been all that bad. You know, the dreaded hot flashes which you'd think was the only symptom? And irregularity? Not here. I never ever had any of these issues. No, just the other you don't hear about except when the word "hysterical" comes up.
I never lived by the rules, why start now?
Anyway, today is the Shamrock Shuffle and if I am going to go I need to get my bootie moving. We had freezing rain and snow last night and now we add to that 27 degrees and 30mph winds. I am hesitating. The majority of it is along the river which will be nice and perhaps protected.
Husband made his usual Saturday morning fare so I said let's sit down and break this down. We did and it came out to 16 points for me. That leaves me with 22 for the rest of the day. His solution is to use real cheese rather than process, LOL. I said well for me leave the cheese and butter and hashbrown out and then I have more to work with. He claims he'd starve. I said no, you can still eat all the fruit and veggies you can STAND! You would not starve. I am not starving unless I am emotionally starved. Or PMSing which I am getting an extra special dose of this month! Yay!
Later. Ok, you can see I went. I asked myself if I was making excuses and decided I was so I went. Turns out it is 3.5 miles, not a true 5K. Doesn't seem like much more but I would have been fine at 5K. I got a blister on my foot, ugh, but I will survive. That last bit was a bit too much for me though. I need to get out more if I am going to do these things. Anyway, I wasn't the last in (though it wasn't a timed event for walkers they did have a clock out) for the first time ever. My time was 1 hour 13 minutes. I forced myself to slow down at the end as it was uphill and I had my heart monitor on and it was pretty up there for most the time. I am surprised I did it though.
They didn't have XL shirts but did have a L so I took it. It is tight but I will get into it, LOL. Not restrictive tight but too tight to just wear around.
So yay, I did it! See how I feel tomorrow!
Belly dance class last night was a lot of fun. We are learning a new routine which includes a lot of lotus pose (which is like a sumo wrestler's starting pose and incorporating arms which I like. It is SO HARD but I feel very good when I come out. I wish the room was better, better lit, better ventilated, not so dark, wider rather than just long and MIRRORS! Mirrors make a huge difference! But I am happy to report that I still have it when it comes to neck and rib slides, LOL.
I didn't look at clothes today. My feet said eh, another day. Instead I went to Borders and got three books, Complete Book of Women's Running and No Need for Speed, A Beginners Guide to the Joy of Running (a bit humorous which is what I love) and to round it out, Culinaria Germany, LOL.It was ten dollars and is huge and full of photos.
I never lived by the rules, why start now?
Anyway, today is the Shamrock Shuffle and if I am going to go I need to get my bootie moving. We had freezing rain and snow last night and now we add to that 27 degrees and 30mph winds. I am hesitating. The majority of it is along the river which will be nice and perhaps protected.
Husband made his usual Saturday morning fare so I said let's sit down and break this down. We did and it came out to 16 points for me. That leaves me with 22 for the rest of the day. His solution is to use real cheese rather than process, LOL. I said well for me leave the cheese and butter and hashbrown out and then I have more to work with. He claims he'd starve. I said no, you can still eat all the fruit and veggies you can STAND! You would not starve. I am not starving unless I am emotionally starved. Or PMSing which I am getting an extra special dose of this month! Yay!
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| Click to see runners going over the bridge! Eau Claire, WI Shamrock Shuffle. |
They didn't have XL shirts but did have a L so I took it. It is tight but I will get into it, LOL. Not restrictive tight but too tight to just wear around.
So yay, I did it! See how I feel tomorrow!
Belly dance class last night was a lot of fun. We are learning a new routine which includes a lot of lotus pose (which is like a sumo wrestler's starting pose and incorporating arms which I like. It is SO HARD but I feel very good when I come out. I wish the room was better, better lit, better ventilated, not so dark, wider rather than just long and MIRRORS! Mirrors make a huge difference! But I am happy to report that I still have it when it comes to neck and rib slides, LOL.
I didn't look at clothes today. My feet said eh, another day. Instead I went to Borders and got three books, Complete Book of Women's Running and No Need for Speed, A Beginners Guide to the Joy of Running (a bit humorous which is what I love) and to round it out, Culinaria Germany, LOL.It was ten dollars and is huge and full of photos.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Peeps
One serving=4 Peeps=4 points
Two servings=8 Peeps=7 points
If I eat enough of them could I get it down to zero points??
Boob Voyage, a FB Event
Join me on March 12 for "Boob Voyage"! Here is the description...
Join us in saying Boob Voyage to our good friend Michele's boobs by burning a bra on Saturday, March 12 at noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern. We will also be paying tribute to the boobs that have gone before us. Don't forget to take a picture and post to commemorate the event. Please add the names of those you are burning bras for. Cancer Sucks! Boob Voyage Cancer!
I don't know how to link to the event but I am sure you can find it by searching events. I hope so anyway.
Join me!
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