Guess who's back? Back again... 

Unbelievably behind. Due to me being ultra busy, napping, or actually following my "go to sleep on time" directive. I did think of y'all often and read back up to date.

9/5 - 4/5
Super stormy. Not much done but picking my green bean pole back up after it blew over yet again... Did a bit of exercising. Some more sewing and cleaning done around the house.

9/6 - 3/5
Picked out of the garden. Ran away from yellowjacket population. Went to Market. Did light exercise. It rained. Finished picking the garden after dark. Had to spray tree with hose because of bees sleeping on the figs. Remained disturbed the entire night.

9/7 - 3/5
Some sewing done. Father in law helped me change out the broken handle to the greenhouse so now I can get in from the outside! Did the harvesting I didn't do yesterday and went to the grocery store.

9/8 - 2/5
It's a cold snap so fewer figs for a bit... Walked the garden but no harvest. This was a pretty bad day for me. A break (if you will). I spent most of the day prone and browsing the interwebs. 

9/9 - 5/5
Pretty good for a Saturday. Did some more sewing. Working on the pescatarian lifestyle. A little light exercise, sewing, and proactive bug spraying in the greenhouse. Walked through the garden but no harvest. Spent the morning at the church for a garden improvement day I set up.

9/10 - 4/5
Went out to greenhouse and did first bit of sweeping in a big while then ran from yellowjackets when they reared their ugly heads. They were attracted to the water I used to hose a couple of things off and the disturbed piles of leaves from clearing the area in front of the door. Sewing done. Ate right. A little light exercise.

9/11 - 3/5
Day of remembrance. I'm working hard on a Swap pony that requires ponywear. I now have a greater appreciation for those that can make half decent looking ones. My sewing machine has helped greatly and I need only a little more before I can adorn it.

9/12 - 3/5
I have to get out earlier and earlier each of the warmer days to keep from having yellowjackets around me while picking the figs. I have to get up on a ladder to properly pick everything, so it's rather dangerous having them around. Especially with my fear of heights.

9/13 - 4/5
Walked the garden to do some maintenance and light picking. Got the needed equipment to do a more thorough job on the greenhouse. A lot of interior cleaning and a quick trip to the recycling/trash dump where there are more yellowjackets because people refuse to properly rinse out their cans!!!

9/14 - 5/5
Got two contractor bags full of stuff pulled out and some reuseable items rinsed off. I think I accidentally made some chlorine gas but not enough to be truly worrisome. I know the symptoms and was (because I'm paranoid sometimes) wearing full mask and gloves gear with two layers of clothing and hood.

9/15 - 3/5
Put spraypaint on the salvaged wood items but I may need more paint. Bought more bleach and other cleaning stuff. I need to gather my courage and cut some of the greenery around the outside of the greenhouse. I may wait until it turns colder. Started a third bag of trash. Some more sewing prep and testing of the Kings. No exercise. Went to sleep on time.

9/16 - 4/5
Finished the eyes on the Kings! I need to see if I want to add shine to them. With "Scar" (my King that went wrong so I'll be testing techniques on him) I learned that I don't like the look of the fabric paints I got even though they're pretty good and leave the minky still soft after drying. Went to sleep on time because I fell out at 10:30 and only woke up in time to set my alarm and check my Pinterest alerts.

9/17 - 3/5
Did too much today. My exercise was running around in a panic helping everyone at church today. Since I joined the choir each Sunday has been an exercise in not letting it become a full panic. A little sewing and cheated on my diet at the potluck. But, I mean, brisket. BRISKET.

I've gotten mine from $8 - $30 (from Sweden for the more expensive ones but they're flawless) but I collect them and am slightly unreasonable about prices (on the high side by a dollar or two mostly). For less common varieties in not as great condition I'd still go around $20. The blue one you have, OP, is likely about that much. I have an okay yellow with pink hair I got for $22. She has a couple of eye scratches but no haircut and no smoke smells. $30 is my personal max on Takara fakies and not many others will go that high for them either. A green or purple bodied one would go up on my max immediately but you have to watch out because the blues sometimes turn greenish.

She looks awesome! I didn't know she came in brunette. Great find! *more than slightly jealous...*

I'm back again! Hopefully I'll be more active online than I was towards the end last time...   I've managed to maintain my current weight easily for these last few months. Now I want to start loosing weight/size again.

1. Go to bed by 11pm.  It's hard to get enough sleep otherwise because of how early school starts. I don't take time for naps during the day.

2. Start with 10mins/day of light exercise. Add 10 minutes per month to the routine. 30 minutes shouldn't be too bad as a daily routine.

3. Harvest at least every second day. It's high production time for all this bounty I've nurtured through the summer. Expect copious food pics.

4. Eat more pescatarian. It's how I maintained a healthier figure before. I'm the biggest eater of water creatures in the house so I can't go there completely but I liked eating that way. Youngest is resistant to the idea of mommy becoming "less squishy" even though I told her I needed to for my health. 

5. Play with my new food dehydrator twice per month at a minimum. I've been using it a lot right now to add to my ways of keeping food from Market and garden but the test is in the long run. Doing it with the oven was harder and not fun. Youngest has made me aware of how yummy dried okra is because of how much it tastes like it's fried.

6. Clear out the greenhouse. I need to do this before the first frost. I've a papaya and a dwarf banana I want to keep healthy. Plus, I'd be able to try winter hothouse gardening.

7. More sewing and working on ponies! If I can dedicate two workday sized blocks per week I will be ever so much more visibly productive. Bonus, if I can make myself write something on each of my social networks every day promoting my store. Visibility helps. 

That's plenty to work on, some of which overlap marginally. I hope to continue being a healthier pony here in the future. 

Sunday 3/5
A little over a mile walked. Some more gardening but mostly just watering. No real cleaning.

Monday 3/5
A mile and 3/4 walked. More gardening. Laundry day. This, to no one's surprise, upset hubby's cat who had gotten used to me delaying laundry until it was an all day affair.

Tuesday 5/5
A little over three miles walked. A lot of cleaning done as hubby wanted me to double check under the sofas for my phone... Still missing... Some gardening done but not much as, once again, my green beans have run out of climbing room and I can no longer add height without being unable to tend to them without potentially needing a stepladder. They're about 8' off the ground as is now. Got my front yard trimmed and mowed, though I still need to clip the hedges.

Wednesday 5/5
Went to the Farmer's Market! There was an inner city summer camp group who had an outing with coupons specifically so they could spend them at the Market at most of the stands. They nearly cleared out the stand that had fresh strawberries.   A friend brought over zucchini and cucumbers from his wife's garden so we have "salad and pickles for days" as Youngest said repeatedly. Almost three miles walked.

Thursday 3/5
Almost two and a half miles walked. A lot of gardening done. I decided I had enough energy to attempt starting some filler seed near where I'm trying to drive out the Creeping Jenny so I hand tilled that after turning over my compost. I had to buy more soy milk for hubby so I stopped at the garden center for more bits and bobs for my succulent fairy gardens inside. It took going to an organic-centric grocer to find the pepermint oil I need for my "make the fruit unlikeable to birds/pests/etc" spray. Peppermint, lemon juice, and water sprayed directly on the fruit leads to one or two experimental pecks and then they leave them alone! More fruit for me. Although... I do have to apply it twice daily for best results...    On the downer side, during our morning tour of the edibles Youngest noted that she couldn't find the peach. We searched for a litle but it hadn't fallen anywhere around it (kinda obvious because I made sure to put a proper barrier to prevent casual mishaps like that) so I surmised that someone must have stolen our only peach of the year. I did find it later, before the ants managed to get to it, and salvaged what I could as the culprit had taken only a couple of big bites where it had been prettiest and tossed the remainder about 35' away in my lawn. So we did get to sample our first peach but I'm still angry at that unknown thief.


I'm starting to be a little more lenient on some of these days where I pick fresh from the garden and count those towards Market days. Because the whole point to me going to Market is to get locally grown, mostly organic (even without the labelling) food.

I meant to write this yesterday but I was tired after the long bit of driving I did this weekend. 3-4 hours each way and the next day church and picking up hubby from the airport.    No accurate mileage as I cannot find my phone right now and my stress level is the only reason I'm awake still. 

Friday 4/5
Back and forth as I put most of everything into the car the night before and made the hard decision of which G3s I actually had room for in the minuscule remaining space. Maintenance gardening for a break or two.

Saturday 3/5
Endurance is an exercise. Plenty of walking. Loading and unloading of the car. S.E. Pony Meet successful! Child was charming and mostly well behaved. No gardening because I got up to begin the day at 4:30am and didn't step foot in the house until nearly 11pm. BTW, McDs chicken biscuits keep ridiculously well in a hot car and are still edible for a dinner on the go. 

Sunday 3/5
Nothing I can count as exercise but walking galore. We picked a cucumber and some fruit for dinner. I fought the fennel for dominance and forced it back into uprightness with only one stalk broken!

Monday 1/5
Perhaps should be higher but I'm not happy at all with myself today. Lost my FitBit while disrobing but since I remembered that eventually I found that an hour ago. Lost my phone some time after waking up and showing something to youngest and getting something from Walmart after dropping her off at daycamp. Plenty of walking as I cruised through the store four more times in effort to find it (none of which truly counts as FitBit was still hiding). We picked from the garden and had a lovely cucumber salad almost exclusively grown by us, salt and pepper notwithstanding. My elevated blood pressure may count as exercise. Just going to go to sleep now and hope for the best... 

Posting now so I only have to do the weekend when I can pay better attention again.

Monday 3/5
Not much gardening done. A little cleaning done so I could cook and more because I stress clean.    A little over 1 3/4 miles walked. Nothing that I could count as exercise.

Tuesday 3/5
Youngest had a dental appointment so walking the mall it was in became the activity of the day. She was upset because mommy has mall-immunity from working in one before so we didn't buy anything while there although we'll likely go back for Eldest's birthday present. Walked 2 1/3 miles. Got a few bits of fresh greenery for dinner. A little cleaning. No exercise. Maintenance gardening.

Wednesday 4/5
A LOT of cleaning done. Enough cleaning with heavy lifting and stretching to count as exercise. Decided not to go to the Farmer's Market. Some more maintenance gardening done. Grapes and cucumbers dislike being told where and how to grow. Walked 2 1/3 miles.

Thursday 4/5
Getting ready for pony meetup like I would for any Con so going up and down stairs enough for exercise. My FitBit acknowledged 21 trips up the stairs as I finish cleaning and rearranging the things I'm finishing before the cutoff vs the things I'll bring for "just in case". Somehow only 2 miles walked. Garden maintenance done with Youngest so she could pick fresh food and we shared some blueberries, raspberries, and cucumbers. Tomatoes should be soon and figs before the end of the summer.