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I do believe that it is spring.
Yes, that's a different blue background than I have been using. I went outside this morning and (in addition to the garden pictures that follow) I took a picture of the sky and then snipped off a piece (100 x 100 pixels) of nice dark blue from about 45° above the horizon in the north-northwest to use for my background color.
The snow is rapidly disappearing and bulbs are sending up green shoots.
In the garden, my chives are coming up nicely... and the first green leaves
from my strawberries have appeared.
Yesterday Jill and I colored two dozen Easter eggs...
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I've just got to show a close-up of that kitty cat egg Jill decorated....
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Jill baked tons of cookies. Okay, not literally tons, but dozens and dozens. She made chocolate chip cookies and butterscotch chip cookies and cookies with M&M candies in them, and some with a mixture of all three extra ingredients. She took a big package of them to her Saturday role-playing game session with her friends (she says the cookies disappeared within minutes) and I took a large platter of them to Nancy's mother's house for dinner last night,
I cooked up almost three pounds of marinated chicken breasts and Nancy's
mom cooked a ham and let's just say there was no shortage of food despite
there being almost twenty people for dinner (visiting siblings and their
families)... And for dessert we had strawberry shortcake (with real whipped
cream and fresh strawberries) and cake and pie and Jill's cookies... |
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Here I am, halfway through the Six Week Tweak [inspired by
Bozoette -- and Melissa (Pioneer Woman with Cell Phone] and now, halfway through, I'm a bit behind in weight loss -- down two
pounds and since I want to drop six, I should be down three now. I also
wanted to work out six days a week, which means by now I should only have
skipped three days but, in fact, I have skipped six days over these three
weeks. However, most of that was because of slipping on the ice in my driveway
and hurting my side. And my third goal was to work up to doing a six mile
run. I just came back from running four miles and feel pretty good about
it. I'll probably do five miles next weekend and six the weekend after.
So, all things considered, I don't seem to be too far behind and my ribs
don't hurt anymore when I run, so I think I'm almost back on track.
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Six Week Tweak |
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Results |
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date |
weight |
change |
cumulative |
| # |
03/06/05 |
201 |
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| 1 |
03/13/05 |
200 |
-1 |
-1 |
| 2 |
03/20/05 |
200 |
0 |
-1 |
| 3 |
03/27/05 |
199. |
-1 |
-2 |
| 4 |
04/03/05 |
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| 5 |
04/10/05 |
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| 6 |
04/17/05 |
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| date |
workout |
| Mon. 03/21 |
-- no workout -- |
| Tues. 03/22 |
-- no workout |
| Wed. 03/23 |
32 mins. 8 miles - exercise bike
+ leg lifts |
| Thurs. 03/24 |
40 mins shoveling snow (morning)
31 mins. 8 miles ex-bike (evening) |
| Fri. 03/25 |
52 mins 15 mile ex-bike plus half of usual leg lifts and weight routine |
| Sat. 03/26 |
3.5 mile run |
| Sun. 03/27 |
4 mile run |
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