It’s a Chick’s and Cat’s World

The animal world that exists at Donna’s house.  Who is Donna? Shane’s doggy sitter.  Donna comes to the house four times a day to feed and play with Shane when Ted and I are away.  He has such a great time with her!  She’s “Auntie Donna” to Shane. 

Donna is the owner of a pet sitting service called “Paws and Claws Pet Sitting”.  She is so reliable and actually becomes part of the family.  Such a great feeling when you go away to know that your pet is so well cared for.  Donna feeds birds, cares for cats, dogs… not sure if there is any creature she wouldn’t take care of. 

Recently, Donna and her husband converted the heifer barn into a chicken house. She intends to raise chickens for farm fresh eggs. No she won’t eat the adults! I asked and the response was “you know me better than that!”.  I do… just testing. 😀  Here are some family photos from Donna…

From Top Left: Smudge the black cat, Peaches so calm looking, Dora the sleeping beauty, and lower left is Flower who is such a gorgeous color!

What about all those chicks?  Well these are new arrivals and Donna identified them by breed: 

….a few colors of Polish, Frizzles, 20 Easter Eggers, Wyandottes., 2 roosters and 42 hens so we’ll have lots of fresh eggs 🙂

Don’t you just love the cute little innocence of the babies?

I think we have some Polish, Bantam, and Easter chicks.

Since I’m not a cat person, my question is …would the cat’s really enjoy being in that newly converted barn right now?  Would that be the ultimate play ground for them at this moment?   Shane’s not a cat but I know he would consider it a real good time!

As for Wednesday exercise:  Work the Back and Tricep Day.

• Again, 4 sets. Same descending repetitions of 20 – 18 – 15 – 12.
• Wide grip seated pull and one hand tri extensions
• Close grip seated pull and two hand tri extensions
• Wide grip lat pull down and wide grip tricep presses
• Close grip lat pull down and tricep dips off the bench.
• Finish with a set of 25 crunches.

Pre-workout warm up:  20 minute elliptical

Post–workout with Shane:  48 minute walk/jog around MVCC and Utica streets.

Healthy eats: … ahh…no eggs today, that’s for sure!

1/4 cup Cream of Rice + cinnamon + raisins.  Chocolate Protein shake with raspberries and 1 TBS of Chocolate PB2 Powdered Peanut Butter.  1/2 a large orange. 

Happy Hump Day!

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A Hump Day Workout

Wednesday’s work out was back and triceps.  Getting up wasn’t a chore since I was able to relax earlier than usual last night. I hit the massage chair at 7:45 pm and that really eliminated a lot of tension.  I went for a walk with Ted and Shane at 9pm. By 9:20pm, I was already under the covers. Zzzzzz.

Back to today’s exercise:   4 sets of each exercise.  I’ll refer to each “set” as the back exercise immediately followed by the tricep exercise.  The first “set” was done for 20 reps. The second “set”, 18 reps. Third “set”, 15 reps. and finally, the last “set”, 12 reps.

• Close grip pulley rows + Two hand overhead tri-extensions.
• Wide grip pulley rows + One hand overhead extensions.
• Close grip pull downs + Bent over tricep extensions.
• Wide grip pull downs + Tricep presses using the cable machine.

The warm up was 30 minutes of ET.  Shane and I ran 3 1/2 miles.  He picked up a tennis ball at the top of the street and carried it the entire length of our run.  At least he was more controllable this morning.

Breakfast:  There was a really over ripe banana that I was eyeballing for my shake this morning. Ted beat me to it. You gotta be quick in this house.

• Bob’s Red Mill Steel Cut oats with cinnamon, 2 English Toffee Tea Bags, 1TBS powdered chocolate peanut butter.
• Jay Robb Chocolate shake with 1 TBS powdered pb.
• 1/2 a grapefruit and 1 strawberry

Now it’s off to work. 

Have a happy hump day!

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