Happy Thanksgiving

Have a great day! ~~K

Squirrel and an Early Christmas Present

Based on the picture I saw on BMA’s blog I think I have finally used a “squirrel”. I just realized Ft. Meigs has two PRECOR AMT 100i Adaptive Motion Trainers. After I ran 2 miles around the track I got on one of them and did another mile – it started out feeling like a step machine, but as I went faster it felt like I was running, but without the impact. It sure got my heart beating fast (?too fast) very quickly and I was burning just over 10 calories a minute! What a workout – I don’t think I could do 30 minutes on it without a lot of conditioning and building up to it, or else going quite slowly.

Thursday D gave me an early Christmas present – a remote car starter on the Suburu was installed! I’m looking forward to having a warmer car before I get in it – that station wagon doesn’t have as powerful of a heater/defroster as the others. Can you see it’s little blue lights through the windshield? ~~K

Finances and Food

After work yesterday D and I met with a financial advisor at Savage and Associates. It’s time for us to take a serious look at our future and probably do some tweaking. We’ll meet with him again Dec 3.

Since we were already in BG and it was after 6:30 we headed over to Easy Street. I like their interior with all the exposed gearing and belts suspended from the ceiling that operate the fans.

D was looking forward to their specialty club sandwich and wasn’t disappointed with it or his Killian’s.

I opted for the triple-decker Reuben and chose fresh veggies instead of chips. Of course I needed something to wash it down – Blue Moon and water.

I ended up taking ¼ the sandwich home for today’s lunch, but once I was at school I realized I’ll have it tomorrow instead – today’s school lunch is “Thanksgiving Dinner”.

It tasted ok, but the potatoes were so “instant” – they needed to use Potato Pearls!~~K

Shopping and Eating

Can you tell it was D who selected these items when we were shopping at Meijer Sunday?

We needed to go into town to get water and I wanted to pick up a couple toys at Meijer for the little kids for Christmas. Obviously, the “big kid” found a WWII plane he had to have – it’s cast metal and has correct markings!

Also couldn’t turn down a marked-down white cake – I cut it into fourths and put three pieces in the freezer.

Pork ribs were only $1.88 a pound, so I decided that had to be Sunday's supper.

I used the same dry rub on it that I make for the beer-can-chicken, let it set a bit, then slow cooked it in the oven in foil before a final quick grilling.

Yummy! Half of it is now going into the freezer to enjoy another day.
Friday we had spaghetti and meatballs on whole-wheat spaghetti with a salad. Of course we loaded it with fresh grated Parmesean - love the micro-planer! ~~K

First Snow

Yesterday's snow stuck around until about noon today. Even earlier this morning it was snowing large beautiful flakes. I wish it could always be just this pretty with none of the hassles that so frequently accompany our northwestern Ohio snow! ~~K

The Other Side of the Table

Still scanning – here’s who’s on the other side of the table I scanned earlier. Starting to my left is Grandma O, my dad, Grandma McG, Grandpa McG, and back to Grandpa O – those with their backs to us were in the earlier picture.

Maybe I have such a strange expression because I was always the only non-adult (I think I was 5 in this picture) at most of these get-togethers. ~~K

November Menu 1

I enjoy reading and seeing what you’re eating, but I’m not quite the picture taker/uploader like you guys. So I’ll at least try to fill you in periodically on what D and I have for supper – you can probably count on the next day’s lunch being the evening before’s leftovers.

Thurs Nov 6 – Eggplant lasagna (several weeks ago I made a big batch and froze half of it), garlic bread and salad – D thought it was better than the first time around

Fri - Potato/Cabbage soup (includes cut-up ham) – a thrown together recipe I mixed together the night before

Sat - Steak and salad (all prepared by D)

Sun - Meatloaf, baked sweet potatoes, salad

Mon - Stuffed Green Peppers (baked yesterday so the flavors would be enhanced today), baked white potatoes, salad

Tues - Homemade chili mac on whole wheat spaghetti with salad – for some reason we both thought this was one of the tastiest, best meals we’ve had in a while – I made the sauce before school so maybe that helped the flavor along with the extra minced garlic I added

Wed – grilled pork, stuffing, broccoli with cut up peppers and onion, salad ~~K