A Call From Teddy

Hey All!  We rec’vd. a call from Teddy. He sounds good & healthy. The Marines have plenty of free time at his particular location….that’s a good thing!  For the holidays, they decorate the base and have a festive meal. He already rec’vd. our Christmas pkg. but promised not to open it.  I posted his address in earlier emails.

Now for our snowy, cold day:    Shane and I walk around MV which was covered in a thin layer of fresh snow. My 90 lb GSD needs to learn that it’s slippery this time of year and slow it down a bit. My arms were flaying all over the place trying to walk fast and keep my balance while Shane was leaping up and down and lurching forward in the excitement of the cold white powder which he decided was just for him to play with.

A snowy college campus

The day began with a pre workout VPX shake. I ran  36 min. on the tread mill and then went into 40 min. of legs. A lot of squat variations today.  After that, I was ready to cool off in the 30 deg. temps. offered by the fresh morning air.Breakfast? Well, I was toying with making a protein pancake but decided on a hot bowl of Gluten Free Steel Cut oats with 1.5 oz raspberries + 1 tsp raisins and a couple of shakes of Apple Pie Spice. I added about 1/2 tsp Natural Green Stevia to offset the tartness of the raspberries. The other 1.5 oz of raspberries were blended into my Jay Robb Tropical Dreamsicle shake. Also had the left over 1/2 grapefruit from yesterday.   As for my snack… I’ll eat the apple and1 TBS nut butter mix I planned for yesterday.  

GF Steel Cut oats with Raspberries and Natural Stevia

So if you have snow where you are… enjoy it ’cause we can’t fight it. And… if you have sun and warm weather, make sure to soak up some natural Vitamin D today – ENJOY!

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There is good with the bad

A freaky Oct. morning

This is what we woke up to this morning. They warned us!  It was that heavy, wet, cold snow. 

However.. look what New York State has that makes up for a lot of what we lack:  

A NYS Crispin

 

Big, crisp, sweet apples!  This is a Crispin and one of our favorites!  They are great eating and baking apples. They all are about 3 1/2″ – 4″ in diameter – huge! 

I included that big, old apple in my breakfast this morning which was: 1/3 cup Cream of Rye + 1 tsp Apple Pie Spice + a few walnut pcs. and dried fruit + stirred in about 1/4 of the apple chopped up.  1 scoop of J.Robb Chocolate protein with 2 strawberries. 

I have this habit of having to wash the pan and the blender before eating my breakfast.  So this morning, that habit ruined my breakfast because by the time I was finished washing up, my Rye was cold. 

It snowed ALL day today. The roads were wet and messy.  Yes Teddy, that is your truck all covered with snow. It’s just going to get worse. 

10/29/08 at 5PM NY

 

 

 

 

 

At work, we discovered a few leaks in the roof and will under go some repair when it drys up.  At that time, they will be able to get up on the roof to see whats to be done. 

I’m trying to organize advertising for 2009. Always a fun job because the reps. offer these great advertising schedules that I think they build for multi million dollar companies.  So I have to beat them down to finally arrive at a modest investment among 4-6 different media sources.  It really is about as much fun as buying a car!

Dinner tonight is poached salmon.  See the recipe page for instructions.

 

 By the way, this recipe uses a “shallot”.  If you’re not quite sure what a shallot is or the difference between it and an onion or maybe even garlic, check this out from Wikipedia: “The shallot is a relative of the onion, and tastes a bit like an onion but has a sweeter, milder flavor. They tend to be more expensive than onions, especially in the United States, however they can be stored for at least 6 months. Unlike onions where each plant normally forms a single bulb, shallots form clusters of offsets, rather in the manner of garlic.”

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