Littles

These little hooves might be here Wednesday.

Filling In

This girl,

 

 

Is filling that gigantic hole left in my heart when Hagen died. She's learning how to be a dog, not just a pup, she's learning to respond in the way we want. She's gentle and rough at the same time.

 

She makes me smile.

 

 

And the newest addition to the farm, chicks.

Probably both roosters but I'm hoping for a hen to brood eggs for me.

 

Then there is this new round hay bale holder. Got it yesterday at Tractor Supply for $185.

See all the hay spread out? That's what the horses ruined in 1 day with the whole bale available to them. This hay feeder should pay for itself pretty fast. I throw their alfalfa flakes right in there with the grass.

 

Enough room for them to share.

 

Tri related:

Lan is set to do the Black Diamond Long Course tomorrow at Enumclaw. He should do well but it is such a huge and competitive size A/G that he will still only come in 5th place. I'd LOVE to see him podium!!!

To make it a bit easier for him, I have filled the car with gas and stashed a $20 in the car for his after race lunch.

I signed up too but I'll be working a 13 hour day and my $200 registration fee is paying for Terry, Lilly & Brayden to enjoy MY race. I won't even get a fucking tee shirt.

 

At work:

I'll be working at Southworth dock for the fall/winter/spring season. Bremerton no longer offered the on-call days off I want and Southworth does so its there that I'lll be working. A 30 hour shift, 8pm-2am Saturday thru Wednesday with Thursdays & Fridays off. And most of all other days too, since I'll be working nights. Landing only 4 boats, all going to the same places in the same order.

I'm sure I'll be the one to mop floors and take trashes out, sweeping the dock and other shit like that. I hope the captain isn't an asshole.

Results

Two days ago I weighed 160.4 in the morning, yesterday 159.8 and this morning 158.6. Wow, those are RESULTS.

And that's perfectly fine for me.

I am wearing a pair of jeans I couldn't get into for a month.

 

And with today excellent morning good news, we went to the fair and I ate not just one, but TWO scones and topped it off with a real ice cream cone, strawberry vanilla twist.

So yummy!

 

This weekend is going to be a long one, next weekend also. Usually I work Saturdays 7:45am-2:45pm but for the next two weekends its being extended to 9:45pm. That's 14 hours. Then 8:30am-2:30pm on Sunday and a quick return at midnight -8am Monday.

 

September 10th is the Black Diamond 70.3 Long Course that I won't be swimming/biking/running at all, I paid $200 for a good team and now I can't even participate or see them run. Terry will swim, Lily will bike and Brayden run. Yay for them!

 

BeachBody

I weighed 161.4 lbs this morning.

 

I signed up for a month of Shakeology and Beach Body workouts, did the whole body cardio video yesterday, so sore today. Today I did a youtube Abs vid and it hurt every second of the way. I had intended to do another one this evening but the in-laws showed up and didn't leave till after dinner.

I'll be swimming in the morning at 7.30 so hope I can get one in before I have to be at work at 10.45. The beach body videos are mostly only 20-30 minutes, or the ones I have seen anyway. A 20 minute workout is better than none.

I haven't received the Shakeology and portion control containers; dieting will be easier when I get those. I borrowed some from Rhonda but they still had nasty food in them when she gave them to me, yuk! I didn't use them and have them cleaned and packaged to give back to her.

I'm also back with www.myfitnesspal.com to track my food and exercise. Last summer I did this and even though I was in the hard & heavy training for Ironman I didn't lose any weight, not an ounce.

This time I'll be replacing breakfasts with a shake, adding a bit more to it like a bit of Greek yogurt and an extra scoop of fiber and frozen strawberries for taste. Some people say the shakes taste too planty and I don't know if I can down a pounder of plants.

 

I'll be in Hawaii in 32 days, I can't be this fat!

Look at the second layer of muffin top.

OMG!

WTF??

 

HORSE NEWS:

I have purchased all 12 of the 6"x8"x20' posts for the new barn upright posts.

These will be spaced 12 & 24 feet from the arena posts and for stall walls.

 

This is the first view I got of the arena and the old stalls, yesterday Lan and I removed the metal walls and most of the wood walls too.

 

 

The horses can use it like this a lot easier than they were able to use it before with just one door and all of them trying to get inside. Now a few can get in if they want and have an easy exit.

We had the pigs in here for a month, until they got flooded out and then we moved them next door into a smaller stall, which they hated.