Wow, our club is getting big! Thats wonderful

tkrik, those are some good ideas you share. I can always count on you.

Mooseasaurus Rex: Welcome to the club and keep telling us about your physical activities. I know you will reach your goal. Increase your protein and get rid of bread, rice, potatoes, carrots, cookies, cake and ice cream

ewiz: Good job girl, its good to see you again

snoopy: Thats terrific support and advice for poetic.

I swam my mile today early, before the sun hit the pool-- hate getting up so darn early, but its nice to swim while its still cool ( 80 degrees) outside.

Spent the weekend in San Antonio...watched the bats friday night. It was a really neat experience. Besides all the bats flowing out of the cave (they started at around 6:30pm and were still going when we left at 9:30pm), we also saw two coachwhip snakes feeding on bats that hit the ground, a mother and 3 young skunks heading into the cave, a mother and 2 young racoons scavenging, 3 swainson's hawks, 1 redtailed hawk, and a great horned owl feeding on bats in flight. There was one other bird feeding and we believe it was a peregrine falcon, but nobody got a good enough look to say for sure.

Saturday we went to see the Disney Christmas Carol Amtrak Train, bought some supplemental feed, and reoriented the pasture gates so we could put out a feeder for deer without the goats destroying it. Sunday, we spent about 3 hours in the heat watering persimmon trees we have planted in groves around the property. Hopefully we will get some rain out there soon, as it is getting VERY bad and we will be losing a lot of wildlife this winter if it doesn't rain enough to start some growth soon.

I was lazy and just worked and went home on Monday. Last night was spin class. I worked alot harder than I usually do since it was a "race day" profile. 58 minutes, 92% of max HR, 78% avg HR, 954 calories burned.

Didn't walk today. Did my Wednesday housecleaning.

I need to rest up today as tomorrow is DD17s move in date for the dorm. That will be my big workout for the week. The parking is far from the dorm and she is on the 2nd floor and no elevator. Should prove to be an interesting morning.

Txbatman, I very much enjoyed reading about your bat exeprience. What is a Disney Christmas Carol Amtrak train?

tkrik, I wish you well on your move-in. When my oldest moved into a dorm, she as on the 4th floor, no elevator. But, there was a university Christian Club of young college students who hauled everything up to the 4th floor for students!! maybe you will be lucky too.

I swam 1/2 mile in between the rain bands of remnants of Ts Ana-- I didnt want to chance the full mile because there has been on and off lightning today. I sure miss the mile (I"m a bit OCD about doing a mile a day),b ut , a 1/2 mile is decent swimming too.

I havent done anything since monday. Insomnia is driving me nuts and I'm too tired to go treadmilling.

Might go walking tonight or tomorrow, probably need to take a nap first. Good thing the gym my dad and I go to is a 24 hour one.

Don't beat yourself up for only doing 1/2 mile. The fact that you can do 1/2 mile is fantastic. Maybe this evening the weather will be better and you can do the other 1/2 mile. It is also great that despite the weather you still went out and did what you could.

Erin, I hope you get that much needed nap.

tkrik, thanks for the words of support Its still rumbling out there, so I hope its clear in the a.m. to swim...

http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/...aroltraintour/

It is an AmTrak train touring the country to promote the new Disney remake of Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The train is all decorated up with graphics from the movie, and inside they have static displays showing how they made the movie. It is an animated movie, but they used real actors and models for alot of the scenes and then converted it to animation using computers. They also have a small theater they set up where you can watch a "making the movie" short film.

I was just along for the ride as my in-laws are big train buffs and my BIL is very into computer 3-D graphics design. They have a setup at the end of the train where you can stand in front of a camera and it takes your picture, then you pick one of the characters and it basically inserts your face into the character using the same animation they used to make the movie. It is really oriented more towards kids, but it was interesting to me as well.

hey all,
about to go take a short walk since there is a few less rain drops dropping... short in case it gets downpouring again.. been raining all day!! maybe some yoga tonight, to stretch, my back is full of spasms last two nights and hurting by day. hugsss,sarah

Because I was exhausted from my trip to my niece's house, I didn't have the energy to exercise Sunday - Wednesday.

But I bought a basketball at Menards yesterday, so this morning I bounced it down to the park and shot some hoops for 20 minutes. That's a tough workout! I dribbled the ball a lot and worked my way around shooting baskets from several positions. I made a basket in all but one spot, and I even made a couple of "hole in ones" lol. I used to be fairly good at playing basketball even though I'm short. DH asked me if I dunked any shots, lol.

Then I came home and it was cool enough and wet enough to pull lots of weeds. I did that for an hour and 40 minutes and then came inside and had a healthy, gluten free lunch (that's another thread, lol.)

I'm tired but I feel great now since I exercised and it was FUN!!