Saturday, July 13, 2024

Are you able to eat fats, or did your pancreas surgery make that a no go? The French eat cheese and fruit for dessert, I'm just saying. And I think we all know how I feel about bacon.

On any given day I can or cannot eat just about anything excepting slider carbs and refined sugars. Bacon, very crispy?-yummy as are or are not roasts, steaks etc, but only just freshly cooked. Cold or reheated is a no go always.

Arrghhh?putting it simply, eating is a daily crapshoot. One day any of the good for me foods are fine and tasty- the next day, the very same food is intolerable, or I can?t eat very much at all. Some days eating is just hard and not eating feels better.

Here is the catch 22- I can easily eat sliders all day long, thousands of calories of them and it?s easy to eat. This is how I had to eat while recovering after the Whipple. Problem is if I eat that stuff regularly, like alcohol, I can?t stop - some is too much and eating it all is never enough.

Confused? Yah, me too but there?s a solution out there somewhere

Beautiful date night setting Liz! I love a vibrant sea breeze for cooling. Breezes are alive, air conditioning (which I absolutely concede is necessary at times) is dead air, devoid of life.

I'm waiting for my brunch to digest a bit, and then I will go work out. We were going to have BFF over for dinner last night, but then her grandson's birthday party invite came up, so we did that instead. So today's plan is to make a nice dinner for DH and myself. We bought veggies at the farmer's market that we need to eat.

Today was supposed to be a heat advisory. It rained in the morning, and will most likely rain this evening. Not hot, or even very sunny, although it's trying to peek through a bit.

Bird watching on the porch this morning was delightful. The birds were stopping by to sip from the bird baths and 2 robins plunged in for their morning baths. I saw a cardinal, woodpecker, robins, yellow finches and house finches.

We have plovers here. They are so funny. They will pretend to be injured to lure "predators" (Kirby in their eyes) away from their ground nests. Then they take off flying in crazy patterns a foot or so over the ground squawking for all their worth. The dogs love to chase them. Toys that fly.

Greetings all

Sunny day here. Works for me. I puttered all morning with gallery banking and record keeping and emails to some of our artists. Also working on our lease renewal. Amazing how long it takes when I do my own clerical stuff. Then I went to the grocery for some basic stuff that we are low on. Burgers tonight I think. The costco carcas will go to the dogs.

Everyone is rocking their weight control. Yay you! Ostrich mode here. Maybe someday...

What a great looking restaurant Liz! Isn't there a big marine lab at Woods Hole? Super view.

Plovers CC! We have snowy plovers here in our dunes which are an endangered species so you can't walk in the dunes during their nesting season. Glad Kirby is amused. No he won't catch them. Our old Liza used to chase the seagulls but of course never caught any. Did get a few crab shells and lots of kelp..

I skipped the studio today. Lots to do there but I have beaucoup chores to do here. Maybe tomorrow.

Paula I looked at your etsy site. Cool stuff. Cards with flowers sell well at our gallery. Hope the show goes well.

We are still hooked on Tehran. Don't know how many episodes are left in season 2 but every single one is a cliff hanger. More tonight.

Talked to my brother. He said he had a great time up here on his visit. Maybe he will be back again this decade.

Birds DD! Chirps on a sunny day are like a perfect condiment to relaxation. Enjoy.

Diane S

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute is spread all over that area. Lots of scientists working and studying there.

Liz, you live in some beautiful places!