What's on your Thursday Menu?

Good Friday Eve. Happy first day of Spring!!!

Not much going on today. I do have to take Irvin to a quick doctor's appointment at 8am as the tranny in his truck has decided to give him fits. He's going to have to work on getting the replacement one out of his old truck as it only has 20k miles on it. I started two jars of sprouts this morning and I'll work on posting a picture later when I get into work.

QOTD: What's your favorite local news channel? Channel 3 in CT is my favorite one. All the people on there are so funny and down to earth. The other channels available the people all seem kind of snobby and almost like robots.

B: coffee and 2 egg bits

L: ham and swiss wrap

D: pork chops and salad

Have a great day everyone!!!

Good mornin y'all.

Not a lot happening today. I hope it stays that way. Not feeling all the great. Not sick just blah. I think we're in the midst of our last really cold spell. It's 23° outside. We may get to freezing again but probably just barely. We already need to mow some. It's too cold to put the weed stuff out just yet.

My shoulder is absolutely doing horribly. It's making life just a pain in the a$$. It only seems to be getting worse. I use heat and cold therapy to no avail. Just heavily annoyed right now...and pissed.

I think I'm going to have to cut way back on carbs. My bs's are not doing great. There is a lot of spikes. I had a cup of coffee with sugar free creamer and a special k crisp for breakfast and an egg earlier this morning to take my pain med with. Mind you I took insulin with it and my bs is spiking horribly. Currently 240. I am just not going to tolerate simple carbs. The rest of those will go to my brother or the kids. I need to get some lunch meat and cheese sticks to have as snacks and mini meals.

QOTD: right now none of them are my absolute ideal but Newschannel10, the cbs affiliate is the one I watch most. The weather team is my favorite there for sure.

B: egg, special k crisp and coffee

L: salad with chicken and yogurt salad dressing

D: not sure, may do a wrap with a zero net carb tortilla.

S: cheese, hard boiled eggs, maybe something else

Good Morning on Friday-Eve! It's payroll distribution day for the majority of our staff, so I'm hoping for a smooth morning and to be able to get it out On the earlier side. It's been a very productive week. That is for sure. I've had some early/long days.

QOTD: I like the local ABC affiliate.

TSS: 10 years 7 months

B: SF latte, 3 turkey sausage links, and an orange

L: Turkey and cheese sticks, oikos yogurt and some fruit

S: A piece of fruit and yogurt

D: Grilled steak, Trader Joe's cauliflower rice, a banana, and 2 mini York peppermint patties

ES: Protein ice cream and carbmaster toast

E: 1/2 hour elliptical and 2 miles on treadmill

V/W: On track

Totals: Cals:1397 Protein:130Carbs: 113 Fat:56

Have a great day!

I gave in and took a pain pill last night. After three weeks of constant pain, the relief was amazing. I did not realize that I had fractured the pelvis and did not understand why I was hurting so badly. I realize now that getting the pain under control will help with the healing process.

It sounds terrible in some ways but I stopped watching the new about a year ago. I would get so upset over things that were going on and finally came to the conclusion that I cannot change or control or cure other people. I do look at the headlines on line and have a fairly good overview of what is going on, but don't put the TV on and watch. When I did watch the news, I liked the Cleveland stations. I also like PBS stations because I feel they are unbiased.

Good morning, everybody!

We started Spring with 3 inches of snow, LOL. But today is the first day of March Madness and Spring is going to happen. I picked Florida in my brackets. I don't know enough teams to pick the favorite and still have a chance to win. But I guess Florida is the second favorite, so I'm probably out on the same theory.

Jennifer, can we talk rabbits? Short of a rifle/casserole solution, what can we do to keep them from eating our flowers? Last year they ate pretty much all of the annuals except for Wax Begonias. They ate, literally, hundreds of square feet of Hosta's.

I always thought that Hostas were a fail safe ground cover, but not last year. I could even hear the rabbits eating Hostas when I went outside. It kind of sounds like celery. If truth be told, we kind of let the Hostas slide because it was a hot, dry summer. But now there are puddles of rainwater. Nobody is going thirsty. And they are starting to eat the Mall Tulips.

Are there plants that they don't like, or are we just going to have to fence everything?

QOTD: I don't usually watch the local news.

Breakfast: Bagel

Lunch: Catered

Dinner: Spaghetti and Meatballs

Have a Great Day, all!

If you have a cat in the yard the rabbits will go away. I know you do not want a cat.

Outside of fencing everything I have had good luck with a product called Repeals all. Repels-All Animal Repellent Granules - Bonide It comes in both a spray and granules. What I have done is spray the plant then apply the granules around the base of the plant. When you first spray it the smell is like rotten eggs, but that is only for a few seconds. Since rabbits and other critters have a more sensitive nose than us humans they can actually smell it on and around the plants.

There are some plants that will also deter them. I plant garlic all around the outside of my garden and then along the inside I plant onions. Those are two plants they do not like. Some other plants that help to keep them away are lavender, salvia, and oregano. A motion activated sprinkler or windchimes are two other options that are supposed to deter rabbits.

Worst case scenario I can lend you my German Shepherd she just loves rabbit and is getting pretty darn good at catching them.

QOTD- I qui****ching the news after 9/11, I could not stand to watch those buildings collapse another time. The only time I tune in is when the weather is bad. I watch KPTV 12, it's a Fox affiliate but I like the people on there and when the weather is bad they pretty much do weather and traffic all day.

Currently 42 degrees, not terrible for the first day of Spring. It's supposed to rain for the next 4 days but it looks like we might hit 73 on Tuesday.

Jim sorry about the rabbits, the scourge that I have is squirrels. The first year I was here they ate all of my strawberries. I bought some mesh and the bendy poles that go with it and so far so good. I actually had strawberries last year. I've given up on corn they dig them up and eat the seed. They haven't bothered any of the bulbs.

Someone puked on the duvet cover last night, so it's in the dryer and the down comforter is in the washer. I still love my kitties though.

I bought this cat bed that goes in the Kallax shelf unit. It's really cute, but so far they haven't used it. I can't get the photo to upload.

Have a great day everyone!

I swear when my cat has to vomit, he holds it until he can get to the carpet. Someone put on Facebook that the perfect alarm clock would be the sound of a cat puking. My cat has a little cat tree next a window and he sleeps there most of the day. He is so playful and loves to fetch. He will wake me up at night and put his ball in my hand and then wait for me to throw.

There are lots of squirrels here too and many of my neighbors put peanuts out for them. They are fun to watch and some of them are so tame they will come up to you and beg for food if you sit outside.