What's on your Thursday Menu, RNYers?
on 6/22/18 7:11 am
Such good news about Pigie! I'm very glad that he made it through and is adapting!
I love Jan Brett's illustrations, too! So charming! I also love Trina Stuart Hyman's wonderful illustrations. And in an entirely different way, Chris Van Allsburgh's illustrations are amazing! He began as a sculptor, and that really shows in his rendering of shape, weight, and form. And no one can eclipse N.C. Wyeth, an incredible artist.
First day of vacation! Yay for me!
QOTD; there are so many but I think that Charlottes Web or Goodnight Moon would be my favorites.
B: coffee and premier protein
S: ham and poached egg
L: chicken sriracha bar
D: sirloin and broccoli
S: Ham and baby bel
stuck at the auto shop all day servicing my car so plans could change
Lap band: 2006. Revision to RNY 9/23/2016
8/2/17: Goal Reached: 135lbs. & 115lbs lost (5'3")
Pre-op: 250, SW 242, CW 125, GW 135
Pre-op: 9lb M1: 20lb M2: 11.5lb M3: 11.9 M4: 13.4 M5: 10.8 M6: 10.2 M7: 8.1 M8: 8.4 M9: 6.5 M10: 5.7 M11: 3.5 M12: 4.3
Good afternoon! I got off the bike last night when I got home, and fired up the lawn mower. It was a great night to be out there. My parents are moving and have gifted me their mower (having bought a small electric one for their little grass in the new place). It's much lighter and very different than my Honda commercial grade, which is an absolute TANK. I could hardly tell I was pushing it.
My menu today is fairly light. Protein bar/coffee (man I like that combo for breakfast, at least during the week). Protein shake for MS/AS, chili for lunch and likely supper. So far I'm at 64 oz of water on the day.
QOTD: I like to read the Richard Scarry books to my kids, also the Berenstain bears, Chronicles of Narnia, and there's a book called Rainy Day Magic, which has been read so many times that it's worn out and memorized.
I still read the Narnia and Lord of the Rings books myself, LOL
on 6/21/18 1:17 pm
Me too! Loved The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy as a young teen (and ever since). And the Narnia series was one of my most beloved book experiences as a kid! I loved that the horse in The Horse and His Boy loved to lie down and roll vigorously in the grass, a habit picked up during his time with non-speaking horses, but was worried that the other speaking horses would regard it as terribly declasse'!
I'm reading that one to my oldest daughter right now! We just got past that part and we both had a good laugh. I remember sitting on the barn roof in the shade (my "fort") and watching our 2 Clydes scratching against the ancient wood shed in the middle of the pasture. They'd do that and then have a roll in the grass. It always made me think of the Narnia book. One day Ben (he was massive, but gentle) leaned against the shed for a scratch and pushed it clean off the stones and collapsed the entire thing. He looked at the mess for a good 10 minutes, very puzzled, then went for a roll. I got the tractor, a sledge hammer and the chainsaw and went out to clean it up for my uncle. Ben and Molly stood no more than 20' from me watching intently, even with the chainsaw going. 3 hours later and a half dozen bucket-loads to the dump (an old irrigation pond we were always filling in at the back of the property) and it was like the shed was never there. I put the tractor and the tools back, and waited to see how long it would be before my uncle noticed. Almost a week. LOL
I was pretty young to be running the equipment (9) but fully trained as a farm kid (no safety worries, I did that stuff all the time). You'd never see that nowadays.
Sigh....I really miss those days. It was hot, hard work but very rewarding.
on 6/22/18 7:24 am
I can just visualize Ben's puzzlement, ha ha! It is amazing that at 9, you were operating a chain saw - really, a very different world! And sledge hammers are so heavy - I'm not sure I could even lift one high enough now to do more damage than simply positioning and dropping it would do. Long ago I briefly made things in a metalworking forge, and I can remember the weight of some of those hammers. How funny that it took your uncle almost a week to notice that the shed had vanished!
lol My parents didn't even notice I'd done it either. Often in the summertime, I'd get up early and go take care of the animals before my uncle was done at his farm (a half mile down the road). I did this strategically - He would arrive and I'd be done, so off we'd go to the diner for breakfast. He may have called me a sneaky little guy more than once but truthfully, he loved it. He was a bachelor; a dusty old dirt farmer, never married and didn't have kids so we were like his too, and he looked out for us as such. He and Dad taught me a LOT about farm life.
He drove into the barn yard one day and noticed the horses standing there looking at the spot where the shed was, and it took him a couple of minutes to realize what was missing. It had to be 100 years old and stood up to everything until Ben came along. He had a few questions, LOL.
Again..."sneaky little bugger" could be heard around the dinner table. Ha
