05/30/18, Wednesday

Diane, you look b e a u t I f u l, dahling !! Love the hair !! Self care is fantastic for so many reasons !! Cecily, I hope your shower is only heartbeats away ! Driving is so freeing, after you can't ! Carbon, hope water therapy brings increased range of movement. Liz, I'm thinking you'll be back to your positive self today ! Shel.. we all could track you ! Can't wait to hear how the personal GPS does, and so glad you moved in that direction. BB, enjoy every moment with Nugget ! Devon.. may the force be with you ! Those last few days can be brutal ! Ann, keep noodling through the next chapter of your story! I concur, it has something to do with writing ! Miss 150, great job getting the scale to match your screen name !

Yes, I am blessed to be in the Finger Lake region, five impressive lakes within close proximity, surrounded by many smaller lakes. Those glaciers were busy !! Our home is four minutes from the base of Keuka lake, which is shaped like a y. The ticks and black flies are the only deterrents.

Yes, I attached a map ! Now, have to work on sizing ! Always learning !

Good morning!

I have a weirdo day today....work and working out but not sure of what, when. I am helping another clinic with phone calls all day long. Let me just repeat PHONES, All-Day-Long. Don't love that. Plus every caller will include "did Alice have her baby?" (Yes, she did. Now you are stuck with me.)

Paula, thinking of you. Carbon, healing vibes to your knee.

DianeS, I enjoyed looking at those pics again this morning. You DO glow! There is something about a new 'do that makes us feel good. So glad that hoodoos are finding their way into your art.

DianeO! Fingerlakes! A vehicle I regularly park next to has car stickers of all the best places (Yellowstone, etc etc etc) and they have one of Fingerlakes! It is sort of a funny looking sticker but very distinctive. Looks like a wonderful place to retire to (obviously, since it warrants a bumpersticker on my Parking-lot mate.)

My fancy Sos-er tracker thing isn't available for 3-5 weeks. I would be a very slow person to track from the cloud. We need to put one on Cecily and watch her fly. (I have faith, Cecily!) Peps, I was amused by Ron's reluctance to clear the pantry and OF COURSE MnM's are involved! Sneaky little buggers. Also, jelly of those cherries!

Yesterday, I sent what I thought was a routine email. Only to find out that it was not routine to leadership. A bit of a ettiquette faux pas that doesn't make me feel good. Now I have sit with egg on my face as feathers are smoothed.

Ok, off to the gym to see if enough people slept in (lazy bums) that I can get into the 5am class.

Put good in, get good out! Shel

Pantry Purge update: "Maybe we should just wait until school is out. Don't you think that would be better?" My reply: "Sure, if that works for you, it works for me."

All I can think about is reading about a rehab intake nurse explaining in an interview why they try to admit patients to programs immediately - because the addiction will kick in to high gear when it knows it is threatened. The longer the patient waits to enter the rehab facility the less likely he/she will actually enter the program. Patient will then usually wait until the next crisis.

What a great area to live in. I love lakes as much as oceans!

And I love Diane's great new hairdo!

Perhaps my beach/sun therapy yesterday worked. Usually when I am a little depressed I know why, but I couldn't put my finger on it yesterday for some reason. I sat on the beach for a couple of hours (ate lunch there), then walked the dog a few times, once on a beautiful part of Falmouth called the Knob which allows dogs on the paths and on the beach. The land was donated to the town along with the funds for upkeep by Cornelia Carey so it is a great place to go (picture below). So I am not feeling down right now (though a little tired).

Weight 116.6, calories 724. Two pounds down in 24 hours. Darn sodium! Anyway, I want to keep watching it until Aruba because then we will be on vacation...

So Justice seems to have dog PTSD. A few weeks ago I was training him on the invisible fence. DH inadvertently carried him across the fence and he freaked out when he got zapped. I was the one who whipped the collar off of him (and of course had been training him with the warning beeps). That experience scared the heck out of Justice. So I backed off for a while. WELL... Monday I decided to turn the dehumidifier on and it apparently emits similar beeps to the fence warning beeps during the startup process. I found Justice cowering in Chiquita's bed and he wouldn't sit with me without shaking until yesterday morning (almost a day later), which is unusual because I am usually the preferred human. So now I'm thinking that I may not be able to train him on the fence.

Yoga this morning, then maybe some beach or maybe some outdoor shower cleaning or both.

Have a winning Wednesday!

your pictures are the best.....so soothing.

(Hope Justice feels better soon. Poor little guy)

Total water envy!

You may still be able to train him on the fence. I am not a big fan of those fences for a number of reasons, the main one being that owners are lulled into a false sense of security by the fences and don't monitor the dogs while outside. More dogs are lost and killed in traffic escaping from invisible fences than traditional fenced yards.

It was great with our beagle but I'm going to take it slow with Justice (and maybe just forget it). Duchess used to love going into the lower part of the yard which was more "wild" than the grassy part of the yard. I think she thought she was in the jungle (LOL). Justice is pretty happy sunning and lounging on the deck (and likes to take his humans for walks).

We use one in MI. The house is on a channel between Lake MI and a smaller lake and people walk along the channel wall to get to Lake MI. Our dogs were feeling the need to run down to the wall for every walker to bark, get pets, follow them to the beach for a swim... And on more than one occasion they've scared a dog off the narrow wall to fall into the channel. Bad doggies. They now don't go within 30 feet of the "fence" and do all their visiting and barking from a safe distance. But we don't have any traffic other than foot traffic!

Morning!

Nice hair indeed!

and glad that the blues are perhaps not as deep a blue as they have been. Going to look up Finger Lake as it sounds amazing.

the long day ended and I was done. Just done. Surgeon pleased and so do not have to see him for another year. Apparently in some of the USA centres they are doing this surgery microscopically which cuts ( no pun intended ) down the healing time in spades. This I learned in the waiting room from others. In Toronto a surgeon is replacing hips with a new technique and patients are going home in 6 hours! Medical advances are marvellous and am so fortunate that live in a country that has these opportunities and it is tragic that so many peoples in the world are unable to avail themselves of treatment.

Happy Wed.