What a great plan for the day Matt. Getting an unexpected compliament will make the day for those people and you will have fun doing it. Great pictures as usual.

Our beautiful fall weather is continuing. It is cool, crisp, and dry with lots of sunshine. The nicest fall weather here that I can remember. My niece is a therapist and many of her clients are devastated about the election. She is getting upset herself from listening to people who are frightened. We are trying to talk to her and let her know that life will probably go on without a lot of changes. But it is just a difficult time for her.

We are having a family get together this weekend and looking forward to seeing people from out of town. The last time all of my sisters were together was in 2015. It is hard to believe how quickly the years pass by. Three of them are flying today from NC and will stay until Monday. Should be a lot of fun.

Here are the answers to yesterday's walk in the imaginary forest.

Take a Walk in the Forest You Build for Yourself.

Your forest has a path. Describe the path ? smooth, rocky, straight, curvy?
The path is how you see life. Do you stick to predictable and straight path or prefer different adventures.

Your forest has trees. Trees are how you perceive reality. Real trees like oak or maple mean you live in reality. Imaginative trees like feather trees mean you live in fantasy.

You come to a body of water. Describe it. Ocean, pond, lake, creek, what does it look like? What do you do when you come to the water? The water is how you see sex. Did anyone see an ocean? How you interact with the pond is how open you are to sexual adventures. Many people go swimming. Some avoid the water altogether.

You find a key on the ground. Describe it. Size, color, condition. What do you do about the key? The key indicates the type of people you like for friends. An old rusty key means you like down to earth people. A fancy key means you want fancy friends. If you keep the key, you keep your friends and value them. If you leave the key on the ground or throw it away, then you do not value friends.

Your forest has animals. Describe them. Bunnies? Lions? Wolf?? Any animals you want.
The animals are your fears. Big threatening fears or normal tame fears.

Your forest comes to a high wall. Describe what is on the other side of the wall.
The wall how you see the end of life. The other side is what comes after life. Most people see a beautiful peaceful place. Some people see the path going on.

I plan to make barbequed ribs in the Instant Pot today. I will also make some cornbread. That will be a few meals and something different.

Have a great day.

boy - Teenie is right - seems to be a lot of drop-off here lately. Although I'm guilty, too - just too much going on lately, and then there was the election. Yesterday was a terrible day because of it. Feeling better today, but not looking forward to four more years of sleepless nights wondering what ridiculous or awful thing the grand Poobah is going to do next. But here we are again..

I really need to watch a film for tomorrow morning's film discussion group. I feel hopelessly behind on everything, but I need to do this.

eating has been OK lately, exercise not so much, but I did bike to class and back this afternoon because the weather was good for it. I"m glad I did it.

here's what I've eaten today:

coffee with half & half

protein pancakes topped with plain skyr and diced, cooked apples

iced latte made with 2% milk and SF syrup

Chobani yogurt - the 20 grams of protein kind

slice of Danish rye bread with butter and jam

way too much Lesser Evil popcorn

I need about 20 more grams of protein, so I'll have a shake or a thing of yogurt later tonight. Or I might make some protein ice cream and have some of that...

I'll try to be better about checking in from now on!!

Mine is at 2, easier to work from home after since it'd about 1/2 hour drive to get back.

We are twinsen on the dental appointments mine is at 1:00 but I'll just come back to work. Enjoy your short day.