Category: Musings
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Groundhog Day At The Beach
Reading Time: 4 minutesBig news this week….Punxsutawney Phil (PP) didn’t see his shadow, portending that we’d have an early Spring. No one really takes him seriously though, since in the 138 years folks have been paying attention to him on February 2 each year, he’s only been right 39% of the time. I don’t give a… Read more
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Going Cold Turkey
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m not losing any weight. I feel better, the fasting is going well, but the weight is stubbornly not coming off. I listened to some fasting YouTube videos while puzzling yesterday to see if I’d soak up any motivation or be inspired to weight loss excellence. I randomly picked this video… Read more
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The Guest Test
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen you live in Southwest Florida, weather wise, winter is the most magnificent time of the year. Someone once told us that there ARE two seasons in Florida, wet season and dry season. I contend that dry season could also be called guest season because dry season in Florida coincides with winter… Read more
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Child/Parent Role Reversal
Reading Time: 5 minutesRandy and I were lucky to have parents married to each other for their entire adult lives. Three of the four of them are now gone. Only my mom, who will be 90 in June, remains. We both have good memories of our childhood. We were well taken care of by parents… Read more
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My Favorite IF Things
Reading Time: 5 minutesI woke up Sunday morning with “Raindrops on roses, and whiskers on kittens” on my mind. I know. Weird. They were the favorite things Julie Andrews sang about in Sound of Music, but it prompted me to think about my favorite things about intermittent fasting (IF). My last two blog posts were… Read more
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Intermittent Fasting (IF)
Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you missed my post last week, be sure to read it here before you continue with this one. This week’s post is a continuation of it. Fasting is a word that, growing up, had all kinds of religious connotations. It implied piety and penance, spirituality and sacrifice. Few people outside of that… Read more
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Is RVing Back?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOK, honestly, I don’t know for a fact that it ever left. But from our observations over the past few years, we surmised that while a lot of folks bought RVs at the beginning of the covid thing, as the thing wore on and many campgrounds closed, RVing became harder and… Read more
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Look and Feel Fabulous in ‘24
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe had lunch with some friends in Missouri last week. It’s been almost a year since I’d seen her. She walked in and I was struck by how terrific she looked. She’d acknowledged she’d lost weight, but it was more than that. She looked healthier and had a glow about her that… Read more
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Snow! Why We Moved to Florida
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy days are really messed up. It’s Friday and it crept up on me as surprisingly as Tuesday did this week. I need a reset. I was the last one out of bed this morning. I walked into Lynn’s garden room where everyone else was sitting in recliners admiring this view.… Read more
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The Eating Season
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen Christmas Day is Monday, and you’ve been traveling all week, Tuesday morning and the realization you need a new post to keep up with your self-imposed schedule creeps up on you awfully fast. We were putting some of the final touches on Christmas dinner (prime rib, twice baked potatoes, pop-overs, and… Read more