Ten Things, and Dessert

I’m taking a break from my usual Wednesday Dinner post to bring you “Ten Reasons I Love Being in My Mid-Forties,” along with a sweet treat.  Just ’cause.
1.  When someone irritates me, I can say “I’m 44 years old, and [insert rest of sentence]” and it actually sounds like it has some weight behind it.
2.  [...]

Training on Tuesdays – Stoke it, Baby!

Your response to last Tuesday’s post and my hand-wringing was just amazing!  Thanks for all the encouragement.  Some of you continued or extended the discussion in your own blogs, and I hope you’ll keep it up! 
The Tuesday Training posts shall continue, but please, let’s do this together.  I’m not an authority.  I’m interested in the topic, and I’ll throw [...]

Still Knitting…

Progress on Flower Basket is of the slow but reasonably steady variety.  Here’s where I am…

I knit a little on it each evening, while I’m still awake enough to pay attention – this doesn’t exactly make for leaps and bounds in progress, because as the rows get longer, it takes longer to get through each repeat.  I [...]

From the Sublime…

To the surreal.

This is Tom.  Well, that’s what I’ve named him, anyway.  Tom is a wild turkey, albeit a very well-fed one, apparently.
Tom is pictured here hanging out, not in a zoo or a nature preserve – or in the wild, as wild turkeys are wont to do –  but on the grounds of my workplace. 
Seriously.  [...]

Welcome to the Weekend!

The Queen of Craptastic Photography (that would be me) somehow managed to capture this shot on the way to an appointment yesterday. 
Yes, I have gone over the edge I swore was too far for me – I was carrying a camera in my purse, “just in case.”  And sometime in the next few days, I’ll [...]

Lakewatch: Spring Storms

This lakewatch shot was taken at a low spot along Lincoln Memorial Drive, which is a lakefront causeway that exists only because tons and tons of fill were brought in years ago to create a passable area at the bottom of the bluff.  This photo is more tree than lake, but something about that big tree waiting [...]

Words of the Wise

Isela has deemed Wednesday “Inspirational Quote Day” on her blog, and has encouraged other bloggers to post quotations that speak to them.  I’ve already blown Wednesdays on food.  (What an awesome bunch of ideas you left in the comments yesterday - I think Beth gets the prize for (1) most detailed instructions; (2) best recipe titles; and (3) most creative ideas.  [...]

What’s for Dinner Wednesday? No, Really – What??

                                                                                                 
Before we get to the topic du jour, thanks so much for all the great comments yesterday on the issues of body image, aging, and whether I have any business blogging about fitness.  Like I said to a number of you in reply, I’m just a schmoe struggling along like everyone else, [...]

Feel the Love

I had a whole post pre-written for today about the metabolic woes of being days away from 44 years of age.  You know what I mean.  There comes a time in every woman’s life when suddenly every indulgence shows up somewhere almost immediately – and instead of landing on the hips and thighs, it might [...]

Shower Gasket, Take Two.

After admitting to myself that lace weight does not lend itself to my ham-handed ways, I banished the Shimmer to the stash closet.  It is dead to me. 
Fickle knitter that I am, I found an excellent replacement within 24 hours of the Frogging Incident.  I dithered a fair amount, but finally settled on Plymouth Buckingham Bristol, color 1016.  And I’m [...]