Day Four - Getting Healthy

For the first time in I can't remember how long, I slept 8 hours straight. This whole getting healthy routine seems to be working. Last night I was actually tired, sleepy and ready for bed by 10:30...didn't finally make it until 11:30, but that's another story.

Yesterday morning Jim went to visit Kathy and was pleased to discover she is doing well. He came home happy to know that she's ok and has what she needs. Holding that happy thought he went off to the gym and walked 3 laps around the track while I did 1.5 miles on the bike and 6 minutes on the rower/glider. Today I'm going for 2 miles on the bike and 7 minutes on the glider. My goal is to do 5 miles on the bike and 20 minutes on the glider. With the holidays rapidly approaching, we need to develop all the stamina we can.

We went shopping for Thanksgiving stuff yesterday. I found some very attractive paper napkins (I prefer cloth any day) but with so many coming, it's just not practical. The napkins have an ivory linen look with a maple leaf border. Also found some silk maple leaves in all the wonderful autmn colors and some candles that match perfectly. We have lots of gourds and small pumpkins so the tables should look quite festive.

We had our Costco adventure late afternoon, and then had an early "Costco special dinner." Jim had pizza and I had a polish dog with sauerkraut....Yum...Costco makes the best hotdogs and pizza. It just goes to show that good food doesn't need to be expensive...under $5.00 for both meals....Yeah...I know...that wasn't exactly on the getting healthy menu, but it beat the heck out of ice cream and oreos or the $50 we could have easily spent at the Nines. Tonight we'll have fish and salad.

Solar installation people are supposed to arrive today, however, it's also expected to maybe rain so it's a crap shoot whether they'll make it or not. I'm not going to get in a heat about it...they'll get here when they get here. I do want the solar installed before I do any holiday baking, oven cleaning, Christmas lights, etc.

We're getting a lot more birds at our feeders. They seem to prefer the black oil sunflower seeds, but we're also getting some that like the seed blocks and songbird seed...we even have some that are chowing down on the suet block....There's never a dull moment around the McRhoads home - between the birds chirping and singing and the cats pacing the windows ledges with teeth chattering, it's pretty entertaining....retired folks are easily amused.