Wednesday goings

Hi ladies,

I have a doctor's appointment this afternoon to see why I'm getting lightheadness and I have passed out 3 different times. I'm still on low dose of blood pressure medicine.  They told me not to take it this morning. Hopefully I'll get some answers today.

The bariatric doctor's office called this morning and said my blood test had low protein count. Asked if I was getting 60-80 grams-of protein a day. I told her that I get over 80 every day. I don't know what they want to do about it. Oh I go on the 15th so I'll ask about it.

B  egg mcmuffin and string cheese

L bacon ranch tuna pouch, baby carrots and sliced cucumbers 

D sirloin pork chop and squash

S light and fit Greek yogurt with chia seeds and apple

Everyone have a good day

Hello All,

I am finally home from our vacation. We went through 12 states.  The first five days, we hiked all over Rushmore, a natural bridge in Douglas, WY, and Yellowstone. Once in Yellowstone, we lost cell phone connection, and we lost internet access. So, we were forced to pay attention to where we were going and what we were doing. LOL. I have to tell you that driving through UT, CO, and NM, we had the pleasure to see the most beautiful canyons and mountains. We hiked and walked and played. We did the Mesa Verde Pueblo Cliff dwelling tours and I thought I was going to die but it was so worth it to let the kids experience all of that the cliffs offered.  So, yesterday, after being home for two days, I went to the doctor and I lost ten pounds.  I know! It had to be all the walking. My husband, lost 10 pounds as well.  We at our breakfast at the hotels, we always took a picnic lunch wherever we went, and our dinner consisted of a nice restaurant and I have to tell you, I didn't count calories or carbs. I did eat vegetarian as I do here and it was hard because not all restaurants serve fish. LOL. 

Yesterday, we went down to look at a little house near the AR River.  It's way the hell out in the country but only fifteen miles to our daughter's place one way and fifteen miles to a small town in the other direction.  The house has 3 acres, is fenced, has two small buildings--one is a workshop and the other is a small apartment that we can rent out, if we want.  Also, with the house comes the lease for the land the post office is on which only pays 5000 a year but it is money that will be monthly for 99 years. Of course, we won't live to see the end of the lease but our kids will....Anyway, we are thinking of buying the property.  

For the next few weeks, I am using up all my time that I have accrued at the university and then my real retirement begins. Well, let me get back to organizing my spices.  

Hi Yvonne

Good luck with fixing your protein problem.  Also hope you got some answers to your lightheadedness from your doctor.

Jeannie, I love Mesa Verde when I was there in the mid 80's.

My husband had not been there so we went about 5 years ago and he really enjoyed it.  It took me years to convince him he would.  What did you see in Yellowstone?  We've been there twice since we have been in Cody.  First day we saw Old Faithful then the second day we went to the canyon and saw the south rim.  We enjoyed both the upper and lower falls. Tomorrow it is supposed to be cool so we want to go back to the Old Faithful area and walk around the other geysers.  The colors in the water around these are supposed to be awesome.  I want to go to the Mammoth Springs area but the geyser area has to be seen on a cool day.  So Mammoth will wait.

Hope everyone had a good day today.  I didn't do so well food wise.  Got to get on the ball !!!

Linda,

We went to the Bill Cody Museum the very first day and spent all day long in the museum; it was great. Then we toured Yellowstone. First, of course, we went to Old Faithful.  I think we stopped at every hot spot we saw.  We went to the upper and lower falls and we did make it up to the ice caps but only from a  distance.  

We had such a good time.  The kids wore us out. In the 70s, I hiked all over Mesa Verde but this time, I could only do the Cliff Palace, which was hard for me.  We had such a good time. 

the bill cody museum is awesome.  We took all day and didn't get through the gun museum. We decided to buy a membership.   We been 7 or 8 times.  We are headed there now to finish up the section on buffalo bill himself.  We've been to yellowstone 3 times.  Went to the south rim of the canyon and saw the upper and lower falls, went to old faithful, anti climactic,  took the hikes around all the geysers in the area, much more interesting than old faithful.  We still have to do mammoth Springs and the north rim.  We are hitting the highlights but three is so much more to see.  There are hikes all over the place and I am armed with bear spray but might not get around to most of those hikes.  It's takes so long to get there and back that I get worn out, it becomes a 12 hour day or more and I'm too old to do that day after day. We also bought season tickets to the rodeo and have gone several times.  We are having a good time.  Did you buy boots?