Sally's GF3 thread

[Sally PB]

Once the freezing rain/sleet/snow/ice starts to accumulate on our road, I'll have to find another place to skip. It would be VERY counter productive to slip and fall and break something while I'm skipping to build up bone density.

Hey... I could clean out the basement...

Jumping jacks... they don't require a lot of space!

 

[ShrekDawg]

I saw this video a while ago. It was pretty interesting.

It is a clip from this much longer video which I have not watched yet.

But the point of all this is to say… skipping IS very good for you and great exercise supposedly sooooooo… keep it up!!!!!!

 

[drstratton]

Insurance compaines stink. My dh died, I filed the insurance, and the company denied it. They said they didn't cover dementia related death, but would cover Alzheimers death. My arguments fell on deaf ears.

They'll eventually be judged.

I'm so sorry that happened to you!
They will definitely be judged.

 

[NanaK]

@fuzzi

So sorry. Much unnecessary stress.

 

[Sally PB]

So, about skipping... I'm trying for 30-40 skips? steps? what to call them? on each walk. DEFINITELY a good workout. I'm breathing a little harder by the end and sweating in this heat and humidity.

 

[saysfaa]

I tried some skips on my walk this morning. I got ten. That felt like enough but also felt good. So a quarter mile later, I tried another ten. That was a lot harder. I should have stopped at 7. No damage, but it does use different muscles. Hm, and I'd feel better about my joints if I was down another ten or twenty pounds.

Many kudos to you for targeting 30!!!

 

[Sally PB]

It rained! It might rain some more!

 

[ksbkeys]

That is wonderful! Maine is having a drought as well. I have never seen it so "crispy" here. Our grass is virtually down to dust and dirt in many places.

 

[cavemanrich]

Here in Chitown we got an inch in about 20 minutes. then another inch 2 hours later, same short duration. My backyard semi flooded. meaning there is standing water that did not drain away.
Nothing wilting around here,, even the weeds look good

 

[Sally PB]

I've canned 26 quarts of tomatoes so far. I plan for a quart a week for spaghetti sauce. I've found I really like my rice cooked in the Instant Pot with a quart of (undrained) tomatoes. I use tomatoes when I make stew or soup. There were about 24(?) quarts left from last year. Why so many? Dunno. We may have skipped a few weeks of spaghetti sauce (or had leftover), but not a lot.

I plan to can about 25-30 more quarts, if I get enough tomatoes. Still have to have tomatoes to make hubby's salsa. I'll make green tomato salsa for me once we're done with the ripe tomato stuff.

Quart jars of tomatoes don't cost me much. I have the seeds, saved from my tomatoes. I make my own potting soil. I have the pots. I started these plants, I didn't buy them. I did buy some Tomato-Tone and gypsum to combat blossom end rot, and it worked wonderfully. I easily have enough for next year. I had to buy canning jar lids, but have the jars and rings. Had to pay for the electricity for the stove when I can, plus the salt and the lemon juice.

They cost my time, and it's something I enjoy doing.

Remember when you were a little kid and your mom said, "Don't put that in your mouth! You don't know where it's been!" Well, with these tomatoes, I know exactly where they've been.