Day One - Getting Healthy

The past couple of months have been high stress for Jim and me - lots of issues - Kathy's health and status, delays on our solar installation, things happening with various family members that are worrisome. As a result, our lifestyle hasn't been the healthiest - too much processed and prepared food, too much alcohol, not enough exercise. Neither one of us has been feeling all that wonderful, energy level in the tank. We decided to work towards correcting that and yesterday was the first day.

The first day of our new regime included juice and vitamins in the morning, along with our coffee. Light breakfast and lunch and a meat and salad dinner. No alcohol. We still had our cocktail hour - we like to visit and review the day. I had a virgin Mary and Jim had a strawberry banana fusion. We didn't go to the gym or work out because we did errands all afternoon. That alone is enough exercise for a 70 and 80 year old! We went to Lodi and visited the Goodwill (always an adventure), had lunch, shopped Smart and Final and Target and drove the 23 miles home.

At the Goodwill I found a new bird feeder - one that holds suet, and two kinds of seed. It's pretty good size, so we should get a fair number of feathered visitors. At Target we bought a hummingbird feeder. The feeder we have is pretty, but useless - it leaks so it runs out of juice quickly and and attracts ants.

We've been enjoying the surveillance cameras we have focussed on the bird feeders so much that we decided to expand our feeding station to attract a wider variety of birds. Our three cats have a great time sitting on the window ledges watching the birds. We have to be watchful of the times we allow the kitties outside. Two of them are skilled hunters.


A note on Kathy - She seems to be recovering from her latest surgery right on schedule. Some time this week she will be moved to a nursing facility and taught to care for her colostomy. The colostomy is supposed to be temporary while her body repairs itself. Thanks for the prayers and good thoughts on her behalf - keep them coming...it's working.