Healthy Steps – Week 22
Please forgive me; this post is a day late. I have been working on a project and time got away from me last night. I was down .8 pounds this…
Tara Choate The first weekend of summer
It’s that first divine weekend of summer. What did I do? Stayed at home, naturally. My mom and I always discuss our plans to stay off the highway this particular…
Healthy Steps – Week 21
I am delighted to report, after the gloom and doom of my last post, that this week I lost 6.4 pounds, erasing last week’s gain and even dropping a little…
Out in the open air
As I said in yesterday’s post, I had a GREAT time with all my birding out in La Grande at the Ladd’s Marsh Bird Festival. In addition to my birding,…
The (La) Grande Tour
This weekend I drove over to La Grande to enjoy the Friends of Ladd Marsh Bird Festival. I had seen this even on my Facebook feed last year and had…
Healthy Steps – Week 20.5
Oops. In so many ways… Last Wednesday (it’s Monday evening now) when I got on the scale I had gained over 5 pounds! Now, I was expecting an increase, but…
The evolution of a harmless painting
I have a major case of the “I don’t want to” blues tonight, so I’ll show you what I can do if left unsupervised.
Healthy Steps – Weeks 18 & 19
I’m not sure what happened to my post from last week (week 18); I guess I wrote it in my imaginary blog? It was a nice post. I gained 1.2…
Painting with intention (or the opposite)
Several times this week I had thought about sitting down to paint, but there has always been some other job that seemed more pressing. But, I told myself, I’ll do…