Hope it was fun for you

May 27, 2008 · Posted in Life, Photography · 2 Comments 

Hope everyone had an good memorial day. Aside from the serious nature of the holiday, it does present us with another day to stuff ourselves. I do love to grill, and I took advantage of the mild weather to do just that. Aside from that I did just what I planned on doing, nothing!

Oh, by the way. Last year I told about the fountain I bought my wife. I promised pictures but never delivered. Well here’s a shot of it now. I finally got a cord so we could hook it up, she was happy!


Fountain
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Preserving the past

May 18, 2008 · Posted in Photography · 5 Comments 

I saw this awhile back and made a mental note to come back to it when I had the time. I finally made the time Saturday and went back out into the middle of nowhere to shoot this barn. I fell in love with it the moment I saw it and knew it would be a great subject. I shot it partly for me but partly to preserve it. The paint is peeling and the barn is starting to fall apart, so it is only a matter of time till it fades into memory. This way, I can still see it whenever I want, and now, you can too! I have affectionately come to know it as the Jesus Barn.


Jesus Barn
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Karma chameleon.

February 5, 2008 · Posted in The Maker's Diet · 1 Comment 

Let’s get this straight. I don’t believe in karma per se but if there was such a thing! See I was a miserable grump the other day to pretty much anyone who came in contact with me. Today, when I woke up I felt like crud, really nasty crud for that matter. I have what appears to be a cold though sometimes these turn into bronchitis for me. I am praying that will not be the case this time.

I have been reading a lot lately. More than I usually do, way more. I usually read one book at a time but I have been juggling two books plus my Bible. So far I have been doing well at it. No getting mixed up or losing what I had gleaned from either book. I also need to update my now reading over on the side bar. I actually finished the Dean Koontz book the other day and am in the process of reading something else.

I think the diet is going well although I cheated a bit over my birthday weekend. Some cake a few sodas and a trip to Joe’s Crab Shack because I love Joe’s! Becky and I shared the double dip appetizer and then I plunged into the fisherman’s platter. I could barely walk by the time we left but I was full! Anyway, back to the diet, I seem to be holding steady at the moment weight wise, this weekend didn’t seem to do too much damage.

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Still alive, but boy am I jonesin!

January 16, 2008 · Posted in The Maker's Diet · 1 Comment 

I see that snack machine there in the corner at work. I look at it longingly, resisting the urge to buy just one thing. Oh look, a Zinger, I love those, what could one hurt? But wait, maybe a snickers bar, surely that is alright isn’t it? Maybe that bag of chips; look they are baked instead of fried; I know thats good for me now!

I have resisted.

My beverage of choice has been either green tea or ginger ale, both all natural. Sometimes I treat myself with a cup of organic coffee with some stevia in it for sweetness. I am not totally on it yet as my meals are still not the best but they are cut down quite a bit for me. Just cutting out the snacks and the portions has done some good.

I will do a weight report soon. My results have been a little bit skewed, in other words I’m not sure they are entirely correct. At any rate I am surviving and that is half the battle for me.

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Getting so much better all the time.

January 11, 2008 · Posted in For His glory, Life, The Maker's Diet · 1 Comment 

If you look over to the right in the now reading section you will note that I am currently reading The Maker’s Diet. Yeah thats right, it’s a diet book, but unlike any I have ever tried before. It is biblically based and quite interesting.

I picked this up because the Author, Jordan S. Rubin, has Chrones disease also. His was much worse than mine, he was pretty much on deaths door as he wasn’t responding to conventional treatment. He had begun trying everything that was recommended to him in the hopes of getting better.

The Maker’s diet is the result of his journey through illness. That is far from the whole story but if you really want to hear it all you should buy the book. The diet part itself is going to be hard as I will be required to give up a few things that I really love, the main one being pork. On the plus side I have already found alternatives to most of the pork products that I consume.

Hopefully following this diet will bring my digestive system back into some semblance of normality. Feeling this way all the time is very tiring and really doesn’t help with the depression all that much either.

I will try to keep you abreast of my progress through this blog when I start. I have to read through the whole book and prepare myself for this as it will be hard for me when everyone else in the house is eating something that I can no longer have. I have been dropping a few things here and there from my diet already so that I don’t have to drop everything all at once and go into some strange frenzy the first time I see someone eating bacon. I have added a category for this, hopefully I will stick to this and make some progress before I wimp out!

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