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Scrambled Eggs
Sunday, April 28, 2019 23 comments The very best way to make scrambled eggs? Slowly, in a double boiler that is just barely simmering. Melted butter first. Then the whisked eggs. Stirring continuously. This takes a while!! It's the slow cooking that creates ... Read more
More than a Calorie Burner: Shout Out to BessHaile!!
Saturday, April 27, 2019 23 comments Oh, that Sparkie BESSHAILE absolutely gets me. Yesterday on my walking blog she commented: "You are more than a calorie burner. You are a soul seeker and it's so much easier to find your soul on a walk." And thinking of her comment got... Read more
Walking
Friday, April 26, 2019 30 comments I do love the effects of the "formal" morning exercise routine -- four sets of 10 push ups, sit ups, mountaineers, squats. I can feel some muscle under my skin on my shoulders and across my rib cage and at the back of my waist and in my thighs.... Read more
Stretching
Thursday, April 25, 2019 28 comments What can I say about stretching without being boring and repetitive? Stretching after my work out (4 sets of 10 push ups, sit ups, mountaineers, squats) is really becoming one of the highlights of my day. A complete body stretch with... Read more
Peregrines?
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 30 comments www.allaboutbirds.org/gu ide/Peregrine_Falcon/id# For the past five years we've enjoyed the peregrine falcons which have nested in the forest behind our home, and frequently perched high in the ancient red maple in our y... Read more
Clean Up Continues
Monday, April 22, 2019 27 comments We're cleaning up and turfing out and relocating stuff from our third floor so that it can be repainted too -- Gahhhh!! So much dust from the second and first floor renovations which has seeped into everything. I've finished tidying up fi... Read more
Hawking on Change
Sunday, April 21, 2019 24 comments 
Lots of change happening in my life -- and I like this attitude!!... Read more
Looooooong Weekend!
Saturday, April 20, 2019 24 comments Although I don't myself celebrate Easter in the conventional religious sense, we do schedule a four-day weekend. Which meant that I got all the laundry done yesterday -- and I've also begun working on the third-floor "clean out" with two f... Read more
Bonus . . . SHOUTOUT TO FUNLOVEN!!
Friday, April 19, 2019 11 comments What a great blog from Spark Friend FUNLOVEN -- yes indeed she knows what she knows and we ALL know that Spark People is a wonderful village!! www.sparkpeople.com/mypa ge_public_journal_individu al.asp?blog_id=6583903 ... Read more
Intuitive Muffins!!
Friday, April 19, 2019 30 comments With my IE experiment I've been realizing that truly I've been cooking intuitively with respect to my big pots of supper soup for years. All about what's in the fridge, what needs to be used up, what would taste good this week, what would make... Read more
Winning the Battle
Thursday, April 18, 2019 35 comments Every one who like me is a cancer "survivor" will be familiar with the battle metaphor applied to the fight against cancer. It's been 10 years cancer free with two recurrence scares during that time, and I just had a mammo -- waiting for t... Read more
Better Yesterday
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 31 comments And yes, Tuesday was just as stressful: maybe more. But I listened better to gentle hunger, gentle satiety and benefited from gentle movement including my morning exercises, stretching and recess walk. And: was conscious that this at... Read more
Stress City . . . and Intuitive eating???
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 31 comments Suffice it to say, yesterday was stressful. Two separate stressful thingies to resolve, one of which was well handled and the other? Maybe not so much but had to be done anyhow and done the best I could. And when I got home, how did the i... Read more
Song Sparrow, Maple Sugar
Monday, April 15, 2019 30 comments www.allaboutbirds.org/gu ide/Song_Sparrow/id Back at my bird feeders yesterday and mixed in with a crowd of slate coloured juncos which stay all winter were a few song sparrows returned from the south. . Their beau... Read more « First Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 Last Page » |
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