Discharging

Today the camera is discharging it's battery, completely.  It's a rechargeable battery.  And I keep the camera, always, on the recharger.  I rarely carry the camera anywhere.  Sometimes it goes for a walk with Riley and I.  Sometimes I take it to work.  Mostly, I take pictures of the minutia of my life.  All that recharging seems to clog up the battery and make it weaker and more likely to screw up the camera functions---eventually.  Once it completely discharges (takes two days sometimes) the camera will be good as new again.  I love when it's working perfectly again.

Today, up later than usual.  I made coffee.  Had a bowl of "farty" cereal just to use up the last of the soy milk.  Then I got a dark and a white load of laundry going so one would dry and the other wash while I joined G & Riley on the walk in the woods.  G has the weekend off.  A very special event.

I am considering taking Riley into the woods on our next walk.  I'm not sure Riley would behave (not run away), with me alone, as well as he does for G, so G did a little demo.  When Riley had gone ahead (quite a way) we stayed behind, around a curve and quietly waited.  This was very difficult for me to do.  Wait.  It seemed like a very long time.  But, eventually, Riley came running back to see where we were (thank goodness).  And got a treat.  I also threw a few sticks into a pool of water, and Riley kept diving in to get washed off and find the sticks. He had a lot more fun in the woods than he does on the paved streets.  We'll see.  We would follow our usual street walk and then go into the Commons on the return loop and follow a short path and then come out back where we went in.  It's a bit tricky to get back to our house from there.  I really don't want to get lost.  And hunting season begins on Halloween.  If there are suddenly no blog posts--you 'll know I'm lost in the woods.

We visited Reny's (a store and not my former dog), and I spent $30 and got a red pair of Crocs for the holidays at work (red Crocs and green clothing).  I also got a double fleece hat for snowy walks ( I like the shape and intend to use it to make a pattern for a felted wool sweater hat).  I got more salted almonds ( a good snack to take to work) and a one dollar microwave lid for work so the co workers don't get food all over the inside of the microwave while reheating their lunches.

G and I had chicken wings with hot wing sauce for a very late lunch.  We'll be having spaghetti and meatballs later?  I am going to be having zucchini spaghetti and not spaghetti squash.  The zucchini cost me $5.

I worked a bit in the vegetable garden today, after the walk with the dog.  I dug up my tomato plants, G picked up all the squishy tomatoes.  I turned the soil over and added compost before planting my garlic.  I still need to add some fertilizer.  I pulled up the last of the carrots and beets.  I also picked some kale and the last of the raspberries (which I am going to eat with heavy whipped cream).  I had anticipated harvesting the dry fennel seeds, but they were all gone today. G said the birds ate them.  I think they will be sprouting in the garden paths in the spring.  I had wanted my "own" fennel seeds to make sausage with.  Oh, well.

I am going to make a 9 by 13 pan of breakfast casserole this week.  Pork sausage, eggs, cheese, onion and sautéed kale.  The recipe calls for a pint of heavy cream but I may not add that much.  I can then have some of this for breakfast (or lunch or dinner) without cooking.  I purchased some sliced ham to eat with cheddar cheese melted inside.  A breadless Yumbo.  I think I may like that as a change.

Speaking of change, I checked on the internet and found Yet Another Low Carb Diet to end all Diet Plateaus.  The HCG 500 calorie a day diet.  Two 210 calorie "meals" and two pieces of fruit.  Period.  For 46 days.  I was so "impressed" with the lack of weight loss even on THIS amount of food.  Don't fret--I would NEVER do this.

Now, I am going to julienne my zucchini, salt it heavily and let it drain while I iron shirts.  I am also going to iron the fall leaves I picked up on the walk, between sheets of wax paper.  And then read until supper time.  I have to work tomorrow and gave some serious thought, while trimming the raspberry canes, to calling out sick tomorrow.  I have quite a bit of sick time accumulated.  I won't get new sick days until June of 2012.  Always a dilemma.