We had a huge storm come through here last night. There’s lots of debris in the yard. I had to shake off (water) and push up the pussy willow. It was on the list of things that needed trimming, but I didn’t expect it to be touching the pool deck this morning. As we have company coming tomorrow I suppose my time was best spent cleaning up.

Oh, yes, and we had water in part of the crawlspace as well. There’s nothing on the ground over there that can be damaged but you still have to mop it up. So I spent most of the morning inside, and the rest of the day outside. I think we’ll call it a rest day (from a calorie standpoint) and if I do the cardio in the afternoon I can always add calories. From looking at our local long term forecast this is our only dry day for a little while. The next few are what I call CYA days. 30-40% chance of rain and/or thundershowers. So it will probably rain, but at less than 50% the forecaster can’t be blamed if it doesn’t.

(later)

I did do some walks around the pool (2×20 mins), but without the heart rate monitor, so we’ll still call it a rest day. I’m not sure that I really push myself when I don’t see what the heart rate is. There was no real damage because of the storm last night, although there was lots of garbage in the yard from the neighbours’ trees. There’s also a medium-sized branch (perhaps 4′) hanging over the power line. I was going to take a shot at knocking it off with the pool skimmer, but then thought better of it. Okay, it was too short.

But the yard is pretty much back to normal, just a little messy where things like the boysenberry canes look a little beaten into the ground. Funny, but I was thinking on Friday that the yard was looking fairly nice and I should take some pictures. Now I think it needs a little time to recover. So with no official cardio I aimed for 2150 today. All I haven’t taken is the protein shake, and I’m truly hungry. It’s a good thing I’m going to try getting to sleep soon!

Food for the day:

Total: 2164 (30% fat, 32% carbs, 36% protein)

Breakfast: 2 fried eggs on cracked wheat oatmeal bread, grapefruit (386)
AM Snack: almonds (164)
Lunch: whole wheat tortillas (2), mustard, smoked turkey, cheese, grapes (536)
PM Snack: soy nuts, protein shake (269)
Dinner: chicken breast with tomato/wine sauce and cheese, broccoli, butter, salad w/dressing (542)
Late Snack: peach yogurt sorbet, protein shake (267)

“I don’t believe that there weren’t two treats under the doormat. I’m sure there’s another one - I can smell it!”