MARCYINCNY1's CalorieKing Blog
A Hanukah Funeral
Thursday, December 6th 2007
It's one of those times when you just have to drop a lot of things to deal with the matters at hand. One of the things that I've had to drop this week is the my time online and on CK. I'm hoping to soon have a chunk of time to catch up on blogs and all the little notes I have to pass along...But I've been doing a lot of cooking for Marilyn's family and helping with airport pickups. Today is the funeral.
I can't decide what to do for Christmas. I have no interest in chasing after a...
Snow Day
Tuesday, December 4th 2007
First snow day of the season and my first outing on snowshoes if only to get out to make trails to the bird feeders and pack down the snow under the spruce where I broadcast seed for the ground feeders, including this handsome fellow.
I don't think I'll make it to the park today (the county is requesting no unnecessary travel) but I'll get plenty of exercise shoveling. Right now I'm waiting for the repairman, who's supposed to replace the refrigerator fan today naturally, to call s...
Sombre Holidays
Monday, December 3rd 2007
http://www.wunderground.com/wximage/imagesearch.html?handle=Jayne&handlebox=1&submit=go
(Jayne in Germantown, WI posts the most amazing photos of birds and insects at Weather Underground.)
I now have two older friends who have lost their husbands in the past year and are facing their first holiday season alone. The friend from whom I borrowed a walker this time last year died yesterday after several months of declining health but he was still at home and online until Maril...
Snow Shoveling
Sunday, December 2nd 2007
We have several inches of accumulation between Friday night and last night and we'll be doing the first shoveling today. Of course CK doesn't even list snow shoveling so I went to Calorie Lab. While I was there I finally checked to see how my hiking calories have changed now that I'm hauling less of me up and down the hills and, damn, I've had to drop it from 6 to 5 calories per minute.It doesn't come as quite a disappointment after what was a pretty good week of diet & exercise. Th...