MARCYINCNY1's CalorieKing Blog
Dental Rhymes with Mental
Saturday, October 20th 2007
I had an early dental appointment yesterday. I'd put off my dental issues for the summer but now that we have some dental insurance I have no reason not to get started on the work I need to have done. Still I can't believe how much dental work costs.Last December, about a week before I reinjured the muscle in my hip, I found out I had to have a big molar taken out after having had it crowned the year before without a root canal. The plan was to then start the implant process but I coul...
Not Good
Thursday, October 18th 2007
One of the things I tackled in the yard yesterday was the last load of dirt that was delivered for filling in over the septic tank. I got about half way through it before I found a piece of root with suspicious-looking red shoots and, damn, enough leaf to clearly identify it as Japanese knotweed.If it weren't so late in the season and if it hadn't taken them so long to deliver the dirt I'd try to get them to come back and take this dirt and rocks out of here. As it is, I don't know i...
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 ...