Well Wednesday was a little warmer to start the day some where in the low 50's which is perfect and it may have reached the upper 60's by late afternoon. There was plenty of sunshine to start the day but clouds moved in towards evening and the temps dropped a little. Nancy did run the heat to take the chill off the house just before supper. It was a morning of pickle ball and then the rest of the morning and afternoon saw me with cleaning carpets and fans. I worked on my spare tire with eating sparingly and no snacks and just a salad for supper and it seemed to have paid off as with the exercise and being on my feet most of the day as I dropped a few pounds.
The day started with a 6'ish rollout which has been the norm for me for several months with an occasional sleep in, but that's rare. I did my quiet time with my Creator and then my daily discipline for personal growth and I love this book and the 10 minutes or so it takes a day to read and then commit to answer the question. You can find this book and this author at www.thrivestudy.com. Skip Ross is the author and I know him personally along with his family. Check out the website and look for the Daily Discipline book. My son Bobby has done some work with Skip and Melody his daughter is the editor for Bobby's EPIC OF HAVEN trilogy. After my few moments and then the posting of this ramble I had an apple for breakfast and got ready to ride my bike out to the Rec. for an hour and half of pickle ball play. I had a good sweat with a wet shirt and limited myself this week to just three days and no more than and hour and a half to get back into shape. The knee seems to be holding up well.
I came back and Nancy was getting ready to leave with Carol and Kathryn for a day of shopping in Tampa and then lunch out with them. I vacuumed the house then got out the carpet cleaner and commenced to steam cleaning the carpets. Wow, what a difference that made especially with all of grand kiddos, family dinners and all of the holiday traffic. That kept me busy for a couple of hours. I then decided to clean the kitchen fan and tighten up a couple of the dining room chairs. Afterwards I headed out to sow some more sugar peas and then feed the recently transplanted onions and lettuce seedlings.
Nancy got back somewhere around 3'ish from her trip to Tampa. She was amazed at how clean the carpets looked as well as the fan looked brand new. I skipped my 4 o'clock glass of vino and peanut snack as I was blown away with how much the scales reported I had gained over the holidays. I'm definitely going to change that and I will miss my red vino but it must be done as well as stay away from the breads, chips and combinations of starch and proteins. I was pleasantly surprised when I tipped the scales at my shower time a few pounds lighter than the day before. Exercise and eating lightly really made a difference of about 4-5 pounds in one day.
Well after a supper of a garden salad and then the cleanup we settled into the FOX News cable channel to check up on what is really happening in the world. This is the only news channel I watch because they do report the truth and are not sycophants of the present administration which they helped to get elected. I'm so fed up with politics and those inside the beltway in D.C. The world is going to "hell in a hand basket" and this potus is worried about climate change and restricting our rights to the second amendment while the Koreans are now rattling sabers with wanting to become a world game changer and we the USA is doing nothing. The next president will be paying his whole tenure trying to straighten out the mess this potus and Hillary have created with their incompetency and kowtowing to these who want to destroy US, oh well!! Lets hope we still have a country with some liberties and freedoms after they are gone hopefully this next year, Wake up America, LATER
