I managed to stay well below calories yesterday. I just wasn't hungry--THANKFULLY!!! So, I was able to even-out the damage for one of the two really high calorie days. I'm hoping to have a moderate day today and, maybe tomorrow, I can knock out an additional 300 - 500 calories and all will be well for this week. It still hurts to have a shoe on my foot. I probably won't be able to get out and walk until the weekend. There is still house cleaning stuff I can do in a way as to elevate my heart rate, though. And that doesn't require shoes. At least it is something to burn up some calories.

I found myself in an incredibly crappy mood yesterday evening and I still seem to be stuck there.

Sometimes "pictures" can speak louder than words, right? I feel:

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I was expecting this, but it still sucks. An energy company wanted to drill for natural gas in our area and they offered us a lease for our mineral rights, with a $4,000 per acre signing bonus plus royalties for like 50 years. I waited, because the neighborhood was trying to pull together to negotiate better terms. They rescinded their lease offer due to the prices of natural gas tanking. I knew it was going to happen, but the extra money could have been nice.

Ah well. When the prices tick back up again, they will come back to the table. At any rate, it's nice to know that there is something valuable down below worth keeping the rights to if I ever sell this place.