Daily Ooo's: Tuesday, September 23
goood morning/evening! How is everyone? It's the first full day of Fall. It was freezing in my house yesterday. Gary loves the "cool" (Read: frigid!!) breezes and had all of the windows open. I was wearing sweatpants, a t-shirt and a thermal on top.
It was sad to see my town in the news yesterday. I know that I always talk about the bears in my area and how we love seeing them. As long as we take precautions, such as using bears proof garbage cans, making noise when we walk through the woods, etc, we have never had a bad encounter. Gary has several times been outside grilling and had bears walk right past him. But some young men, from a city in NJ, came up to hike, and one of them got killed by a bear. The only thing that I know from the news reports right now is that a bear was "stalking" them- sorry if that sounds rude, but I have never heard of a bear stalking, they usually will leave the area if they hear/see you- and then they split up and ran away. I guess that I have been in Bear Country so long that it is part of my mentality that you don't run. Ever since my kids were toddlers, playing out in the sandbox or on the swings, supervised of course, we taught them how to react if they see a bear. Unfortunately, these young men didn't know what to do and ran, which is the *worst* thing you could do.
And now- all over the news sites and social media, people are clamoring for extended bear hunts. We do have a bear hunt- (you know me, I oppose that and would rather see sterilization being used to reduce population humanely)- but it is in Dec, when the bears are already in their dens. Such a mess. I feel bad for the family of this man, but I wish that people would be aware of their environment. I mean, would you dive in the reefs of Australia w/o being aware of sharks?
/end rant
Today is my appt for the ultrasound. It is going to be a weird experience- after 6 months of being naked waist up (biopsy/surgery/radiation etc) it is going to be weird going naked waist down Why can't I have something wrong with my toe and just have to have a naked FOOT!!!
I have an awesome Tip on Tuesday for you. I have a meat grinder attachment for my Kitchen Aid. It came with it when I got it 10 years ago and it has sat in my cabinet for those 10 years, because-- well- grinding meat? I was getting ready to mash the black beans I had just cooked to make burgers when I thought about the meat grinder. OMG- it was amazing!!!! I ground up 3 cups of beans in no time. The next day, I needed to make deviled eggs-- tried the grinder again... Perfect!!!!! I have a feeling I am going to be using that a lot this year. So if you have one hiding in your kitchen too-- try it out!
xoxoxoxo!!!!!!!!!!!
goood morning/evening! How is everyone? It's the first full day of Fall. It was freezing in my house yesterday. Gary loves the "cool" (Read: frigid!!) breezes and had all of the windows open. I was wearing sweatpants, a t-shirt and a thermal on top.
It was sad to see my town in the news yesterday. I know that I always talk about the bears in my area and how we love seeing them. As long as we take precautions, such as using bears proof garbage cans, making noise when we walk through the woods, etc, we have never had a bad encounter. Gary has several times been outside grilling and had bears walk right past him. But some young men, from a city in NJ, came up to hike, and one of them got killed by a bear. The only thing that I know from the news reports right now is that a bear was "stalking" them- sorry if that sounds rude, but I have never heard of a bear stalking, they usually will leave the area if they hear/see you- and then they split up and ran away. I guess that I have been in Bear Country so long that it is part of my mentality that you don't run. Ever since my kids were toddlers, playing out in the sandbox or on the swings, supervised of course, we taught them how to react if they see a bear. Unfortunately, these young men didn't know what to do and ran, which is the *worst* thing you could do.
And now- all over the news sites and social media, people are clamoring for extended bear hunts. We do have a bear hunt- (you know me, I oppose that and would rather see sterilization being used to reduce population humanely)- but it is in Dec, when the bears are already in their dens. Such a mess. I feel bad for the family of this man, but I wish that people would be aware of their environment. I mean, would you dive in the reefs of Australia w/o being aware of sharks?
/end rant
Today is my appt for the ultrasound. It is going to be a weird experience- after 6 months of being naked waist up (biopsy/surgery/radiation etc) it is going to be weird going naked waist down Why can't I have something wrong with my toe and just have to have a naked FOOT!!!
I have an awesome Tip on Tuesday for you. I have a meat grinder attachment for my Kitchen Aid. It came with it when I got it 10 years ago and it has sat in my cabinet for those 10 years, because-- well- grinding meat? I was getting ready to mash the black beans I had just cooked to make burgers when I thought about the meat grinder. OMG- it was amazing!!!! I ground up 3 cups of beans in no time. The next day, I needed to make deviled eggs-- tried the grinder again... Perfect!!!!! I have a feeling I am going to be using that a lot this year. So if you have one hiding in your kitchen too-- try it out!
xoxoxoxo!!!!!!!!!!!
