November 20 2014
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| Hmmmm, I guess I am full of it! |
It is always nice to wake up beside the lovely Lisa. When she's working she has to get up at such a ridiculous hour. When she's here, I have someone to play with. I lay in bed pretending to be asleep until the lovely Lisa gets up to make coffee. I laid there until the smell of drippy Joe fill the entire house, and my bladder fills my entire body. While I was going through my morning routine I couldn't help but notice how good I felt. This is a good thing, I have a lot of stuff to do today.
With a steaming big cup of drippy Joe I headed down to the office to finish yesterday's blog as seems to be my new modus operandi. It was really a long blog yesterday wasn't it. Yeah, it was huge, it took four minutes to read instead of two. I guess that's because of all the pictures at the lake. After all the years we've lived here I could still go there every day. I think there were a couple of mindless rambles in there as well.
The lovely Lisa woke up with the same throat thing that I had going on a while back. She was able to make an appointment this morning at 11:00. Not with Dr Eddie our doctor, but with the doctor who's covering for him while he is on holidays. She needs to get her flu shot anyway she works with food and it's pretty important. I have an appointment with Dr Eddy next Tuesday. I'll get my flu shot then.
The lovely Lisa left for her doctor's appointment and I went down to the Green Room to start my workout. I planned on doing some One Stair Steps today in the stairwell. My groin hasn't been bothering me for the last few days so it's time I got back at it. I decided to do my floor exercises first. That sounds so graceful. Floor exercises. Nothing graceful about the way I do them. I did 12 sets of 10 reps of each of my exercises today
Belly Crunches,
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| Feels good to be back exercising |
Side lifts and front lifts, both in the prone position, and no stairs stretches.
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| Hard on the shoulders but getting better. |
I went out into the stairwell where I did 200 One Stair Steps, alternating lead legs every twenty five steps.
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| Stairs to nowhere |
I had no problem with my groin but I wanted to quit at about 125. The last 75 were touch and go.
I made myself a hearty breakfast. Eggs, chicken and meatballs
with avocado and tomato.
I needed to use my wheelbarrow which was unfortunately full of cement. The results of a failed attempt at a garbage can pad that I had in the back lane. It ended up in the far corner of the yard. Dumped between two trees. I wanted the wheelbarrow to unload the truck. It was still full of my banana tree survival kit. Well at least that was my motivation for emptying the wheelbarrow. It's been full of cement since August.
My next project was to take down the trampoline. I found a plastic bin that was big enough to hold all the springs.
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| Cerrado |
The first few springs are pretty tough. It gets progressively easier as you remove the springs. If we look after this thing, it should last for years. I don't need to remind you of what happened to our last trampoline....... or do I?
I would need all my strength as I was on a banana plant rescue mission.
I pulled all the weeds that we're taking over at the base of the three plants, then I cut off all of the dead and decaying leaves.
Top dressed the ground all around them with steer manure, then wrapped the stalks with burlap. And covered it all with eight inches of mulch.
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| All dressed up and nowhere to go. |
Take that winter! From there I moved out front to the fig tree.
First thing I did was harvest the fig crop.
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| Figgy pudding anyone? |
These were the first figs the tree has made since it was damaged in the nasty snow storm of 2008. I'm hopeful for next year. Our fig tree used to give us two crops every summer. Then I dug out all the grass and weeds that had taken over the base of the fig tree. Top dressing with steer manure and then covering the whole thing with mulch.
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| Survival mode |
With the wheel barrow emptied, the trampoline taken down, the banana and the fig tree protected from the harsh Canadian winter. I pulled the first of the Christmas decorations out of the shed.
Next door Gord and Crazy Alice the Christmas Elf have had their lights up for over a week! The lovely Lisa is starting to suffer from Christmas light envy!
Some of the the biggest arguments we have ever had, have been over Christmas lights. For the last few years, I do all the outside lights and the lovely Lisa does all the inside lights including the tree. I'm a minimalist when it comes to lights. I say minimalist the lovely Lisa says, "Fat Lazy Bastard!" Tasteful multicolored lights outlining the shape of your home and of course a giant peace sign.
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| Needs to be tidied up |
The lovely Lisa prefers it to be lit up like a Las Vegas casino! No shiny bauble or electric doodad too tacky. I have to admit when she's finished the place looks great. But really, an Angel with a touque?
I was a little bit cold from working out in the rain, so I poured myself a cup of drippy Joe. It has been sitting there for Oh, six hours or so. Better nuke it! I had done my work out and taken care of the yard work, I needed to shower.
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| Before |
The lovely Lisa has not been very happy about the amount of fur I have grown on my head. I took out my clippers and I shaved my beard down.
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| After |
She will like that but won't be truly happy until I lose the clown hair. Out of the shower and I was putting dinner together. I had already left out a couple of steaks to temper and now I put together a big Squatch salad.
I prepped some broccoli and asparagus for steaming and at about 5:30 I got serious about dinner. I turned on the water to steam the vegetables and cranked up the heat underneath the grill. I brush the steaks with olive oil and season them with Montreal steak spice. When the grill is screaming hot I put on the steaks, four minutes each side. With a one inch steak, it comes out medium rare every time.
In another pan I melted butter. I added spaghetti, meat sauce and Parmesan cheese. The lovely Lisa loves fried spaghetti.
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| Squatch Dinner |
We had a nice meal together and then the lovely Lisa did the dishes. Which allowed me to watch part of the hockey game on the big screen in the living room. When the dishes were finished, I was banished to tiny TV town. The Canucks got off to a bad start then came all the way back to take the lead in the third period, only to lose in a shootout. A point is a point.
When the game was over the lovely Lisa went to bed
and I wrote today's blog.
That's all I've got
Till next time
Peace out Y'all
©2014 Dave Squatch Ward
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