Musings

Lately, I’ve been working on balancing my hamstrings and my quads. Both my knees and back feel better.

Connection to visual: who wants to hit a wall?

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I’ve been trying to cook/eat lower on the food chain, as in more plant protein. My go-to these days includes a veggie bean stew, which has endless variants. When I heat leftovers, lately I’ve been microwaving some fresh spinach in the bowl first, then adding the stew and heating it all again. This bowl has bonus cheddar.

Plus, I recently found out that since the beans (and this is true of cooked grains, too) have been chilled, their grams of resistant starch have somehow increased—and that’s also good for the gut. Apparently, in some chemical magic, the chilling reorders the starch molecules in a process technically called retrogradation (and that’s enough science for today).

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When it came time to write last night, I forgot my plan to reminisce about the year I went to 4-H Snow Camp. I must have been in about ninth grade, and I dunno why I wanted to go, probably to fit in. I have no recollection of how we got there (rented school bus?), or of how big our group was, or even what the scheduled activities were.

What I remember is that The Boys decided to throw The Girls into the snow. I was having none of it, and fought and kicked, and soon was left alone—so much for fitting in.

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Pre-chilling coolers. Just In Case.

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You know how you start on one task, and it somehow spawns other tasks? Today’s spawn-task was emptying the vacuuuuuum. This was right after the emptying, hence all the dust bits, I assume static-attracted to the plastic housing.

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This houseplant perseveres, despite living outside for most of the summer. It is definitely inside tonight (and lately), as the temps will be wicked cold tonight.

Speaking of persevering, I was going to write about this yesterday, and forgot. My AppleWatch gives me a monthly goal, which changes every month, although the themes repeat. Often they require 14 days of doing something during the month, which means only weekends are not enough. This month, I have to get (earn in Apple-lingo) at least 96 “exercise minutes” on 14 days. Yesterday, I had 11, which is good for half the month. Today I have 12, so I’m well on my way to getting a fine symbolic Apple-attaboy.

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We had an eerie defocused pre-dawn, then things cleared and I moved leaves around in sunshine. Now, the wind’s kicking up, and the first of two waves of cold-cold is coming in.

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At our Xmas gathering, our hostess gave us each a scratch-off lottery ticket. This tradition began to support the Hope scholarships that eventually funded our hostess’s college years, at least in part.

As the odds indicate, mostly none of us win anything beyond the occasional free new ticket.

This year three of the five of us had winning tickets, and somehow we ended up with all of them. The Guru cashed them in this afternoon, and got…tada!…$34. Woohoo!

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Met up with a buddy to walk in a nearby park. Turned out last night’s rain and the day’s overcast meant slippery steps. Oops, my friend went down, rather gracefully, slowly, right on her backside…ouch, too bad. Worse bad: her phone was in her back pocket. Super-oops.

It also turned out that neither of us looked closely on the map at the “park” we intended to walk in. All those nice looping paths are actually golf-cart trails…and behind a fence. So, we had a neighborhood sidewalk stroll instead. Small solace.

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We walked in Piedmont Park this afternoon. Overcast, relatively busy. I overheard lots of Spanish.

The title is hubby-humor.

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