The joy of snow

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Yep--joy! I actually like snow unless I have to drive much in it. I have unpleasant memories of sliding back down our long driveway hill in my Pathfinder when I was coming home after working evening WW meetings. Nothing like sliding down into blackness knowing that if I get off the driveway I will either hit the big sycamore or drop about 20 feet into the lower garden! Or, I could slide across the road at the foot of the drive and drop 10 feet into a creek bottom field! Thankfully, neither of those things happened to me as I could usually bring it to a stop on the little flat spot 2/3 of the way down.

But I digress. (Usually!) I earned over 500 calories sweeping and shoveling and blowing snow and that makes me as happy as being fit enough to be ABLE to do that kind of work. At 32 degrees it was pleasant and the snow was either flurries or stopped which made it easier to see what I was doing. The mister took the blower down the driveway and I got to shovel the rest. I would rather shovel than use the blower and he would rather use the blower so it works out well. We have more snow coming in around 9pm and the winds overnight are expected to reach 40-50 mph!! Not looking forward to morning too much!!

This morning I put on a pot of Suzanne's spicy beans and they were quite tasty when I came back in from working! suzannemcminn.com/blog/2009/10/02/a-
pot-of-beans/

I hope those of you expecting snow don't get too much!!
Cindy

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Nothing much

Monday, February 08, 2010

Not much to say today. It's been a fairly quiet day with the impending doom of more snow hanging over us. The sunshine was nice! I did bootcamp and 35 minutes on the treadmill, some of it running just cuz I could.

Sweet dreams everyone!
Cindy

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A Quiet Day

Sunday, February 07, 2010

The sun is out, the driveway has vastly improved, and all is peaceful here this afternoon. The mister is enjoying all the pregame stuff before the Super Bowl and I am enjoying a lovely afternoon of reading and studying back in the quiet of the bedroom. I just finished Day 32 of The Lord's Table scripture study which is a little over halfway through the 60 lessons. It has been a huge blessing to me as I am less inclined to stuff down my feelings with food. There have been a few lapses to be sure, and dealing with emotions is a challenge when you are used to stuffing them down with food, but God has been faithful to always provide me with a way to handle it. I heartily encourage my Christian readers to look into the free interactive course found at Setting Captives Free. www.settingcaptivesfree.com To my initial surprise the course came complete with a mentor which has me hoping that I will handle my upcoming Chicago trip much better this time!

Sports fans enjoy your game, and the rest of you just enjoy your day! I hope you are all having such a beautiful day as we have here in central Indiana!

Cindy

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Why I love February

Saturday, February 06, 2010

Well, besides it being short and a segue into SPRING the earth starts warming and that really helped us with the snow shoveling! We have this ridiculous long driveway hill and 4 inches or so of heavy, wet, fresh snow. We do have a Kubota with a blade but it seems to pack the snow so that it turns to ice which is worse than the snow so we have learned to shovel two tracks down and with both of us working it takes less than half an hour. We'z tuff old folks! So at least I burned 253 calories for my 37 minutes of shoveling! We have and it's a beautiful day here in central Indiana!! Honestly I was dreading shoveling but once I got going it felt great and I am so thankful that I CAN do such things!

I hope your day is going well, dear reader!
Cindy

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Just what I needed!

Friday, February 05, 2010

After floundering a couple of days I am back in Bootcamp with my MRYTYLER and happy to be so. It's all spelled out and I can do the videos more than one time if I'm ready to do so. I think I'm less likely to crash and burn by doing this because it's not too much, it's not too little, it's just right for me right now! I did Coach Nicole's kickboxing videos this morning-- . The older one I do not like nearly as well as the newer one and I really like the newer one even though I am not very good at a couple of the moves. I did it twice so ended up with 31 minutes total cardio. I bought a 10 Minute Solution boxing video a couple of weeks ago with pretty pink weighted training gloves but it is just too intense for me right now. I think I will get there because most of the older Leslie Sansone videos do not get my heart rate up enough now.

We are getting SNOW and I swept and shoveled for 19 minutes and 93 more calories. I'm sure I'll be repeating that every hour at the rate it is coming down. It's sooo wet that I can't really sweep it and it's wet underneath so nothing is really working well to get rid of it right now. I'd rather stay ahead of it since our driveway is long and steep.

I hope those of you who want snow are getting it and that you who don't, aren't!
Cindy

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