Treking Through Tuessday

I was up before the sun came up this morning so when I got downstairs I took myself for a walk. I had originally planned on doing a short walk, but I felt pretty good so I decided that I would walk around the sports fields at the high school as well. I wound up being almost four miles. It was only about a mile further than I had walked yesterday, and it is a route that I might make part of my regular routine.

The other routes that I do usually involve walking by peoples houses and when I walk early in the morning like that I always feel like people are wondering what I am doing. I know that I am always a little curious when I see someone walking by either just before the sun comes up or after dark.

This morning for breakfast I made myself a salmon omelet and had it on some dark rye toast. Then after reading the paper I went outside and raked the front yard, it was not that there were a lot of leaves on the lawn, but rather a lot of walnut shells that the squirrels leave behind when they eat the walnuts out of the tree.

Last year we actually had some walnuts that we could have dried, but it was the first year in fifteen years or so that there have been any walnuts, usually the squirrels and ravens manage to get them all. Most of them are too wormy so I really do not care that they get them, it is just that they squirrels leave such a mess.

I even raked out the dead bulb stems and leaves and put them into my compost tumbler and picked up the fir cones and walnut shells to chop up in my chipper/shredder. I have a full garbage can full on them and small branches that I will need to chop up one of these days. I had thought that I might do it today, but I was feeling so much better than I had that I thought that I would not push myself and just enjoy not hurting for the time being.

I finally made it back inside around 1330 and made myself a Morningstar pizza basil veggie burger and put it into two pita halves along with some artichoke/garlic dip and some guacamole salsa dip. I also had some eggplant patties with sun dried tomatoes on top. I am trying to eat a little more bland food, but it is hard.

I do not like white bread or highly processed foods and those are the things that I can probably eat and not cause myself so much misery. So while those foods somewhat alleviate one problem the processed foods do not do anything for my glaucomic count or provide much nutritional value. They are also not conducive to loosing weight either...kind of a catch 22.

I went upstairs to take my nap but Kathleen had stripped the bed, so I went back downstairs to sit in my easy chair, but just as I was getting comfortable our new neighbor knocked on the front door, so I did not really get a nap in; maybe I will sleep a little longer tomorrow morning.

For dinner Kathleen heated up a couple frozen dinners by Healthy Choice, but neither one of us thought much of them; not much taste and what there was, was pretty watered down.

Well, I do feel a little better, my butt is not nearly as sore as it was after my procedure yesterday, so maybe I can start a new trend. With that said, I think that I will say my good night and call it a day.