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  Bryan and I go get some wings Afterward we go for a walk around the pond. Dixie was flooded with excitement 🤣. It's been awhile to our favorite pond. Some one graffitied the bridge.  Well I shouldn't say graffitied but just spray painted it with red paint. It is sad when that happens. Anyway we walked once around the pond 🤠 and most of it was ice. We managed to keep up and not fall. Dixie is thrilled.  She was pulling the whole time. She thoroughly enjoyed her time out. Bryan and I split a party tray of wings For lunch.  That is delicious 😋. Anyway a good Friday.

  Christmas 🌲⛄ 2022 Kim and I spend a morning and evening over with her family We enjoyed gifts but mostly the company. Turkey and ham for dinner.  Vegetables were mostly all done by end of meal.  And lots of meat 🍖😋 and potatoes left over.  We came home with three care packages. Kim got a wok for Christmas cause she loves stir frys and as this evening was looking up recipes for it. I got a fountain pen that I'm using and it has a refillable ink cartridge.  So I might go looking for some fancy ink. A new sketch book for drawings ☺️

  Dixie goes to the dog 🐕🐶 park. We met a few dogs.  One 7months year old pup.  She ran laps around Dixie. Two other dogs also. Some of the dogs were older. One German Shepherd. That completely ignored other dogs and played ball with its owner. A very well trained dog 🐕😅. Now we're at home having tea 🍵. Drinking orange 🍊 pekoe tea. The dog is whining, she had so much fun the games shouldn't be sitting down for tea 🍵. Afterwards we go take her for a dog bath.  She needed it.  So she smells good for Christmas ☃️🌲. I'm unsure if she liked it to much. Lots of yelps and barks and arfgh going on in there. And the air blower is a definite noni for Dixie. She just doesn't like it.  Yes she tried eating the air blower. I had to turn it off.  Towel dry.  Took two towels and sprayed some perfume on her.  Will she if she likes it.  Or rolls in dog dirt to get her scent back.  Anyway 😜😝  I'm also booking her for her nails. Doggy pedicure and spa day.  Well there going

  Bryan buys me a cup of coffee from Tim's  We rinse it out after and put some tea 🍵 in. We go for two walks met Casey another dog 🐶🐕 Dixie never did her business so we had to go out a second time.  But we thought it might be nice to get a cup of tea warm up a second time. Dixie in a pose in front of camera 📷 Enjoying the weather. She could be out for awhile. My ears were getting cold. I checked her ears and they were warm.  So no worries there. And he feet were warm every time we came back in. She had booties on and her friend Casey had the same boots. Feels like -29 but only -21. Two cups of warm drinks 🍺🤣. We are about to go to a group meeting this morning as we get going out the door. Enjoyable winter cold. Happy Tuesday ☺️.

  Dinner out at the Coast Hotel  Kim and I enjoy an evening out Eating an excellent meal.  Recommended place to eat is with LA Chef 😋.  The meal is. One of the better Christmas meals I've had. Kim and I take a few photos 🙂. I never pulled my phone out the entire time.  Which is nice.  I went for Kim. There were a nice couple we sat with to eat dinner 🥗 with.  The guy liked to read so we chatted about books for a bit 🙂. Dog conversation also.   Kim and I take a pose by the Christmas 🎄 tree. A few photos of Kim's associate's, and we got one photo of Kim and I at the photo both.  I wonder if we forgot that photo there 🙈. Door prizes were fun.  The Christmas party theme was a masquerade.  So partially some wore masks around.  But Kim was saying hello and new everyone.  I don't think your suppose to say names 😉😂 in a masquerade but everyone was saying hello and is very welcoming too. Kim's in a bit of pain for some complications early this week at the ER. So it w

Kim and I get away for an appointment/anniversary get away A tense trip there and home 🏘️ We get going on our trip on Sunday which we got in Calgary away from rush hour and we're leaving before rush hour.  So it made a nice travel. Most the time a person would go into the ditch would be someone cutting you off then jamming on there breaks. Those times would be when you'd swerve into the ditch. So less cars the better. We get staying in a Ramada Hotel only two storeys but there was a huge homeless population coming and going.  We thought there was prostitution happening.   The hotel put us in the second floor so we wouldnt see it out our door. But the doors never even locked.  We changed rooms once due to we couldn't see our car. The heat in the hotel was on full blast and no way to turn it off. So we opened the door periodically on the second floor to let cold air in throughout the night. And the room wasn't the best. We were only five minutes away from Foothills hospi

Dixie and I get walking in the first but of snow this Autumn  We both have red gloves, but I couldn't taking my photo with them on. Dixie was unsure about boots even kicked one off at the start.  I put it back on. She then started doing a stomping prance throughout our walk. She never missed our walk today. I got my new boots in that are black for work. Light and a good deal right now on Amazon.  Which I'm not a big Amazon guy but these where a good price. https://www.travelandleisure.com/merrell-moab-2-vent-hiking-shoe-review-amazon-prime-early-access-pre-sale-6748697 So I got them just today.  I needed new black shoes for work so these were a great price. Kim got a pair for half price off in her size. I also got black pants for work.  Which I'm supper excited about.  I loved the shorts of the brand and model so getting pants 👖 is. They are need of hemming cause the pants are raw length long and say they'll need to be sized for the use. Dixie and I walking in our new

  Lost about 35 lbs in 35 weeks. One pound per week. End of February I lose some weight change my diet.  Introduce one meal a day different. I change my morning to eating oatmeal (fiber) and yogurt(probiotic) For February, March, April, and May. Then in June, I try out some fiber pills which I see the biggest change in my weight with Chia seed powder and flaxseed powder, with metamucil. I saw my weight drop fast steady with it then. I've heard of adding fiber could be an appetite suppressant also help with cholesterol and blood pressure. Also be a meal replacement for making other meals last longer in budgeting process. The constantly being close to a bathroom has also been improved.  Where it's been either stuck up or just water problems... So I started a quick google search of many different things that I thought helped.  And oat is a gluten free way to add fiber.  I know people will say oatmeal is bad but for most it's a stepping stone up.  They say oat is bad for your s

  I'm the first  A bit of white in my beard but that's besides the point.  Life is not going back to normal. I often look at people like pandemic restrictions coming back or my life as before with out pandemics.  Not much else has changed.  News is terrifying right now and if your not seeing it, it's bad. Like the industrial revolution when farmers came to the city they had no jobs and joined the military. That's how WW started, and in the technology revolution there saying has just as many unemployed or more. Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) So after listening to reports of Covid spike coming in January.  They say life will never go back to normal after Covid.  Chance are it could even mutate into a 25-55 age killer.  Instead it's just doing a number on 55 and older.   I'm almost positive that another spike in ICU are coming in January (how big or if restrictions come back) and wanted to get my injection beforehand. Saving people extra burn out or

  Lately I've been getting 13k steps So today we walked and had a few bench stops. Talking a few photos out on our walk. It was more like an hour and a half but we kept stopping so I'd pause my watch and remember to put it on either later to start or later after a stop. Dixie cuddling in on the recliner when she heard she was going for a walk in a few minutes. She jumps up and puts her head right on your lap. I was writing in my Moleskine as she interrupted the call and planning in my agenda. A good walk, in a pleasant October. I find it you got a walking buddy it's way easier to get out for one.  So we've been walking lots these past few days. Dixie has been sort of a good mood. Says she's barking and having a fit and others she well behaved. On walks she is well behaved. I'd say if she people watching out front she can be badly behaved. So far walking with Bryan 😃 I've still been losing weight steady.  Since December last year I've lost over 33 lbs. 

  I get out when it's plus 12 outside. Get a great photo ☺️, 👍 I had to turn around and look.  Took a gravel road. And this is a great spot for a photo. Motorcycle before the sun came up, I only tracked 1/3 of the ride.  I did most likely 12 km before the sun came up.  A bit chilly 🙂. The sun is shining now and a hot air balloon was being filled in the park.  So I pulled over and got a photo. Was shining into the sun so not to good of a photo.  But not enough to steal the moment.   A short ride around the west side. A great photo I took. Looks like it could be in a magazine ☺️. With a TW-200.

  Out for a walk Dixie, Kim and I walk to pick up a tea and scones. To walk back and sit out front in the shade. The weather is nice here 🌄😊 Dixie got a treat, a big milk bone 🦴 from Kim when we got home A good walking distance.  Dixie was well on her way being a happy trooper until we stopped walking.  Seemed she could of gone for an extra ten minutes. But will go again later today.

  Walking with Kim 🙂 Kim finally goes in a walk with me, she enjoyed herself getting to take photos out while we were out. Dixie enjoyed herself 😅 getting into the river. Here she is in black and white photo. Some cattle up the road and even some horse 🐎 back riding. I thought I saw a cow 🐮🐄 killer 🐜 ant in the bottom right.  If you google cow killer ant you could judge the photo.  Maybe a bit of a smaller ant 😉 in the photo but it looked furry. We walk for 30 minutes with a small break. We went with some collaborates to walking the dog 🐶 🐕. One with me wearing my hat https://www.reddit.com/r/Entomology/comments/nv3v0s/eastern_velvet_ant_cow_killer_ant_dasymutilla/ The photo Kim took of the ant we saw. It's actually a wasps 

  A walk with Dixie 😁 Getting my walk in at 6 AM There was a small fog this morning, so in 90 days there will be either snow or rain.  I think that'll be November 22 on my birthday 🎉🎂. Otherwise many significant things happened that day. A spectator in theorists say after a fog in 90 days there will be snow 🌨️. My guess is the west got more fog than the east, might mean we get a heavier snow fall than the east does. But that's only the Alamac Weather Bible. Even the ski hills are excited to see a bit of fog in ski southeast, and in Idaho also saw some fog updates there also I get walking and only start my tracker half way through my walk. Often if it's a small ten minute walk I just give up and don't even track it. But today was a bit longer of a walk. An hour walk. Any way the track almost looks like a leash/string and a heart 💗. We meet a boy puppy with a stuffy named Denali, they enjoyed meeting each other and started to play.  Dixie was well on her best behavio

Kim is interested in photography 😀 I sit down after a day of a interview 🙂. More days of applying to jobs, and responding to emails. This morning I had an interview at 10 am. Lately I've been having many people ask if I want a job.  Which is a nice feeling. So originally when I am excited for things I have to wake up at 5 am. Walked the dog, also did  💯 push-ups before 8 am. That made an the day much more enjoyable.  Coming home to a less anxious dog 🐶🐕. I dropped in a gathering and I heard about unsweetened  canned pumpkin that dogs love that treat. Lately she's been having bites of my bagel and cream cheese when I get hungry before bed. Any way, we get home after a delicious meal. A $43 meal with out tip. Kim tells the server how pretty her necklace is and says she needs one. Breakfast for supper type of meal, ☺️ I find it hard to understand how Smitty's is usually empty when we go, which makes nice socializing if your usually anxious in large crowds.  But ones got t