A strange couple of weeks. I'm doing exactly the opposite of what I planned to be doing 'bout now. Instead of maintaining a level of physical activity and increasing calories, I've reduced my physical activity and maintained my weight-loss diet targets. Feeling out of sorts for about a week and then a week of wet weather has meant fewer trips to the park and no bike riding. I should have compensated with yoga/Pilates but I didn't do much of that either. The coming week should be better; the weather doesn't look as wet and I've waterproofed my hiking boots.

Also last week, without the energy generated by exercise, my concentration wasn't particularly good. Several times I started a CK message to someone or started a blog entry and got distracted, inadvertently closing the window and losing everything. I pretty much avoided the CK site for a few days.

Thursday was wet and dreary here so I spent some time online looking for new quince recipes and some way to replace the pancetta that Niman Ranch isn't making anymore. I found one blog with the picture of slow baked quince but the variety I get doesn't turn nearly as red so I just cooked my first quince stove top like apple sauce. The second basket of fruit I got yesterday is bigger and, I think, riper so I may try to bake some of them.

I'm going to try to make my own pancetta. I cleaned out the old fridge in the cottage and it seems to working fine so I can use it to cure the pancetta. That still leaves the problem of where to hang the meat for a week of aging...

Meanwhile the ALCS kept me up late last night (why do they have to play so freakin' late??) but I went to bed happy. I hope they go to seven and I get to see Fausto pitch again.