May 23, 2020
Well, that was a disappointment. I weighed myself this morning and updated the ticker -- I got serious again yesterday and saw that I was only one pound away from my starting weight of this journal. That pretty much means I gained back everythinng I has lost over these past years. On the positive, I am down 0.8 pounds from yesterday.
That breakfast I ate filled me up most of the day. I was busy mowing. I mowed the trail, but did not get to the section I needed to do. I break my yard up into sections. Once summer comes and the weather turns hotter and drier, it won't be so bad because the grass does not grow as fast. We have a lot of dandilions, I think I should figure out how to harvest them.
I really believe that keeping busy is key for me not to eat as much.
We bought some extra topsoil for the aspargus beds - so I'll need to go out and mix it in with the existing soil. That is the fun part of gardening, get down and playing with the dirt. We are behind in our planting the garden plans that we had, but are ahead of the past years. Hope fully we will get everything in in time.
GD1 had her virtual graduation ceremony last night. It is official, she is a high school graduate now. The ceremony was nicely done; for living in a small town it was a large class, just under 500 students.
D2 and SO are managing the distance learning with GS2, but the schoool is now winding down for the school year so the lesson are shorter and easier. His teacher tries to motivate the students to get the work now by announcing whoever has all or just one assignment missing as a rock star to the rest of the class. That was motivation for GS2 to get his work done, but some days it took a long time. I kind of miss the kids being here, but then again I don't.
That grouse in the yard is starting to get annoying now and is disturbing my time in the woods. She is starting to get aggressive with me and it is no longer fascinating having her so close. Now, I am wishing she'd stop coming up to me when I am either working or just sitting there. I looked up grouse behavior and read that these are shy birds and it is rare to see them. Oh yeah, this one comes running up to me like I am her long lost friend. What to do now!
I want to go camping but so far the campgrounds are not open, last I looked no new reservations are being taken for June. That means I will just have to go camping on our property -- when we head up north, I will make a campsite up there. I won't want to go far into the woods because our friend up there is monitoring our trails and said the bears are out and about up there in the area I wanted to set up my site.
One my menu for today:
Coffee
tri-grain flakes with riced cauliflower, blueberries, cranberries, banana and chia seed.
Sweet potato
black bean
spinach
corn
Exercise: mowing and recumbent bike to get some mileage for the Amerithon challenge.