Lets Post our Daily Exercise
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I wore my new Fitbit Inspire HR to Aqua Zumba today. I am glad to tell you that it IS waterproof (as advertised) and that I earned 5,259 steps during class (I was estimating more like 3,000, so am thrilled). My Husky owning friend is babysitting her granddaughter (owner of the beautiful Husky in my recent picture) and has invited me and the grand-dogs over to her fenced in backyard for a Dog Party this afternoon. Whoo Hoo! Tonight I am going to a fundraising Zumba & Pound event. A high school girl's academic team (Skills USA) is raising money to go to their national convention & for a donation of any amount you can come out and play.
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Exercise for today was laundry and mowing the grass.
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Wonderland - great news your afib seems to be under control. Love looking at your art work as well as Nature's art. Sunflowers are absolutely gorgeous. I cannot wait to see what kind of art you're going to do for Halloween this year.
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Heidi - I called the bank and they had no record of it. The person I spoke with was quite helpful. I mailed a copy of the CD and he will check further.
Rain in the forecast for this week-end so it may interfere with my walking.
Have a good Friday night and Saturday
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Falconer that photo of you and your little one just melts my heart.
Love your sunflowers,Wonderland. They are one of my favorites.
I am reporting my exercise since the last time I logged in. Trail walk Tuesday, dog walk Wed, Thursday and today and also mowed for 40 minutes today. If it would stop raining every third day, I could do something besides mowing the lawn. Here is the trail I hiked. I had to walk off the main gravel trail down this path in the grass to see if those were blackberries blooming. They were. Unfortunately I came off that grass path with many ticks crawling on me, so I may not go back when my great find is ready to pick!
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Ugh TICKS. Hate them--and love possums because they eat ticks!
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edj3 - possums are awesome! So misunderstood. Very rarely do they carry rabies and they tend to avoid humans. Unless, as my mom used to do, you put out cat food for outdoor cats. They love Meow Mix.
I love all the pictures you ladies post
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Go prepared with insect repellent applied almost everywhere. Ticks are nasty, dirty, enemies.
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I don’t think blackberries are worth the tick patrol I had to do. I thought I had them all off me before I got home. Just in case I took off all my clothes on the deck in my backyard and found 3 more. In my post cancer state I am almost more afraid of insect repellant, so I will letthe birds and animals have the blackberries! It was a gorgeous day, however. That particular trail reminds me of descriptions in “Little House on the Prairie”.
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9-mile hike yesterday with my sister, on a ridge near Mt. Hood. #1 photo is Mt. Hood peeking out, as viewed from our trail on Surveyor's Ridge, and the #2 photo is Vanilla Leaf, a wildflower that was in bloom under the old growth timber.
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Beautiful, Hikinlady!
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Gorgeous hiking indeed!
Got a 5 mile run in this morning. Boy it's humid in eastern Kansas today.
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Beautiful pictures!
We had a big thunderstorm in the middle of the night, and it's supposed to be cool and rain off and on all day. Maybe the system will head next to Kansas.
In an hour I am going to a Strength and Conditioning class.
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My foot is all better, so hikes yesterday and walking the day before. Finally got around to walking 'around the block' at my new home, where my property is an acre and a half, and most other properties are just as big. Turns out that once 'around the block' is exactly a mile with a bit of up and down hill. Good for measuring my progress in increasing the amount of walking I do!
Today and tomorrow I am volunteering at a festival sponsored by my employer (and actually, I get a half day 'comp time' for each volunteer shift, so yay for that). The parking is fairly far from where the festival will be, and I expect to be on my feet and running errands most of both afternoons (I will be a 'gopher' for the festival organizers), so that may have to count as my exercise this weekend!
Octogirl
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twohobbies- I love to pick blackberries when I was a kid. My mom would send my three brothers and my four sisters and myself to pick blackberries along our fence. My mom loved making Blackberry cobblers for us. Unfortunately by the time we arrived back with our blackberries, we only had a few in each bucket and we were covered in blackberry juice. My mom always found a way and we still ended up with a cobbler; bit skimpy at times but still a cobbler. If I had to choose between ticks and fresh blackberries, to heck with the blackberries I would still stay the hell away from the ticks. Yuck
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With all the thunderstorms we've had lately it finallt cooled off a little bit. It was a beautiful 85 degrees . Yes, it's still hot but it's better than 93. I just finished a 5-mile run. Time to take a shower, kick back and do a little meditation. Hope you all have a great weekend
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TH: That's awful about the ticks! I know you've done this, but be sure to double check your head. A couple of years ago I had to bring my dh to the er bc he had a tick embedded in his back. It had to be cut out!
HikingLady: Just beautiful!
Octo: Glad your foot is better. You need good feet while you are gophering tomorrow. Have fun!
Had a fabulous fast walk today!
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About 3 weeks to blackberries here. When I arrived in Seattle, I could scarcely believe my good fortune as all the blackberries I could possibly eat for the picking. But here they are regarded as a noxious invasive weed. I suspect that is because no one here has ever dealt with poison ivy. Teams of volunteers work on digging them up, a task that can occupy a lifetime.
I eat them as is, eat the honey, eat the jam, eat in desserts, and am thankful for the abundance. (For some reason, I pass when they are on sale in the markets.) I once had a Seattle tour bus pass me when I was eating them with both hands picking them on the bushes.
60 miles of cycling today including a "pea break" where I did make the detour for fresh snow peas. Guess what I am having with the scallops and leftover beet greens I am making for dinner? - Claire
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Twohobbies - I don't miss the days of ticks - lots when we lived in Ohio - on the dogs, on us - one time getting my hair cut the gal found a tick on my scalp. The scenery is gorgeous in the picture.
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TH- I'm glad you didn't let the ticks deter you from that beautiful scenery. And I do know what you mean about bug spraying- it's a tricky balance. Nature is best
LB- it sounds like you're living my dream. Maybe like you I'll teach this gig full time someday. It would be interesting to note in 100 hours of Yin Yoga training how many of those hours are spent holding poses, and how does that create openness, relaxation?
Wonder- good to hear that the meds are better. Love the sunflowers.
Hiking- I've never seen vanilla leaf, but wow, what a carpet of beauty.
Looks like we are in for those storms today. We picked strawberries at the farm this weekend so I baked two pies with rhubarb from the garden. The berries were so sweet I used only a quarter of the amount of sugar that was called for. Yum.
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I woke up to another morning of thunderstorms. It took almost an hour and a half to calm the dogs down. I'm headed to work. I'm hoping the thunderstorms will have passed by this afternoon. If I'm not able to run outside today I'm going to use my treadmill and elliptical. Have a great day
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Yoga this AM although I am not cleared for down dog (or really for plank but screw that).
Yogis on this board, how do you have people modify down down after surgery like ours (lumpectomy, sentinel node removal)? I'm keeping everything in the right form except my arms (think a weird sort of trapezoid tabletop instead).
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Going to finish putting support fences for my plants in the garden and then do a workout before we get anymore rai
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got over ten thousand steps yesterday volunteering at the festival, and some weight training too! At one point I was moving chairs around and on and off the main festival stage! Didn't know I'd be a stage hand but it was fun....back to it today...
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Third day chemo blahs. I didn't make it for the walk today but did some Qigong. I am new to doing this but my husband swears by it. I figure it can't hurt.
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Hiked 6 miles at Silver Falls State Park with DH today. Here are 2 of the 7 waterfalls we saw.
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hikinglady- I have a weakness for waterfalls. Whenever I see a waterfall I believe everything is right with the world. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful picture.
I'm going to skip exercise this evening. I am tired. Thunderstorms have kept the dogs anxious all week which means I've been sleep deprived. So hopefully I can catch a few hours of sleep tonight. My household is desperate for sleep right now. The storms have finally abated but they're expected to start again around 3 AM. All the rain is great for my yard but not so great for most of my orchids. Everything smells nicer after a long soak
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Beautiful waterfalls!
edj, I wasn't doing yoga at the time but hope one of our 'real' yoga people (like Lilac or Falconer) will have some advice. I know I was really scared to do upper body work & started really, really, really slowly.
I was doing family things most of the day but just now spent 45 minutes on the treadmill.
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Yes, lovely waterfalls, Hiking Lady. I think June is my favorite month. Glad to see everyone getting out and in the garden. The trails are finally opening up here- so much snow from the winter! This shot is from last week up at Grand Targhee. So much fun! My buddy was laying on the ground with his phone as I rode by.
Claire in Seattle- I might be in Seattle for a conference in November- maybe we can meet for dinner or a glass of wine?
And I just ran across this link https://www.fasebj.org/doi/abs/10.1096/fasebj.2018.32.1_supplement.644.10
I am sure I found it on this thread, but it's worth sharing again. Get your heart rate up for 7 minutes and squish those cancer cells!
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Hi Homemade!
We can do both. Will be fun. I know some fabulous places across a range of prices and cuisines. Plus, I think that flights would be more fun at the wine bar. Not to mention the fact that I get 50% off the price of flights because I am a wine club member.
I am feeling extremely accomplished as was able to easily do another 25 miles today. So the training is working, including the "seat time" part
I am now confident about doing the Seattle-to-Portland whereas a few short weeks ago, I was really wondering. Pleased too with the way my body is now looking quite buff.
Dinner tonight is salad as have amazing lettuce in the fridge, plus leftover scallops. The final result will be a bacon-and-scallops over lettuces, baby spinach, asparagus, peppers, cherry tomatoes of various colors, and garlic scapes. Making some toasted bread to go with this as didn't see any "heat and serve" options.
I am hoping for leftovers as will be watching focus groups tomorrow evening as part of the work I am doing.
Wish me luck on the week ahead! - Claire
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