MARCYINCNY1's Oct 2007 CalorieKing Blog
Why, Why, Why?
Wednesday, October 17th 2007
Another beautiful fall day here and I expect to spend the rest of it in the yard/garden.I did my basic loop at the park yesterday but the weather was so nice after so many wet, gloomy days that I took a leisurely pace and stopped frequently.
One thing marred my hike though. I took my camera primarily to get a photo of a great cairn that someone built along side one of the trails. It's been there off and on in various incarnations for a couple of months but when I went past last Th...
Bravo Oscar!
Tuesday, October 16th 2007
Bravo! Oscar Pereiro was finally awarded the yellow jersey in the 2006 Tour de [S]Farce[/S] France yesterday.The cloud cover finally broke a bit yesterday afternoon so I biked into Fayetteville to do a couple of errands. I just signed up at the Clif Bar 2 Mile Challenge. Of course I won't be able to do much bicycling for the next 5 months or so but in the past couple of years I've very rarely used my car for trips 2 miles or less so I figure I'm meeting the challenge in principle year '...
Fagioli
Monday, October 15th 2007
M.F.K. Fisher, in the intro. to the 1951 revision of her 1942 book about how to live during wartime rationing, How to Cook a Wolf, says:"There are very few men or women, I suspect, who cooked and marketed their way through the past war without losing forever the extravagance of the Twenties. They will forever feel, until their final days on earth, a kind of culinary caution: butter, no matter how unlimited, is a precious substance not lightly to be wasted; meats, too, and eggs, and ...
Quince
Sunday, October 14th 2007
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...
Slow Food
Wednesday, October 10th 2007
I hauled my sorry self down to campus last night to attend a discussion on Slow Food and related issues. I went because Alice Waters was going to be there but, to my mind, she was eclipsed by Judy Wicks who I didn't know before last night. Wicks was wonderful and we will definitely stop at her White dog Cafe when we visit our nephew in Philly. And I ordered several copies of the cafe cookbook so I nailed down some holiday gifts too. Hat trick!I didn't make it to the park yesterday on a...