The weather is changed now, all of a sudden. Wednesday was the last good day we had of summerlike temperatures, then it started to rain Wednesday night, and it was windy and crap all of Thursday. It rained plenty, then Friday came along, and it was just cool. Today there was snow on the mountaintops, and the sunset was all the more spectacular for it. It is especially tolerable because there is still a lot of color other than white! When that time comes, things will be different!
We got the kids sorted on their Covid update today, and Missus taught a 4H class on polymer clay to some of the local young’un’s. It’s really cool that she has been able to do that, and I love that she is getting involved and doing such a thing as a volunteer.
After dropping Missus and our oldest off to do the class, youngest and I went to the store and bought some groceries and went home, put a winter soup on, and cleaned up in the house some. The soup had beef, carrots, potatoes, and onions. It was pretty basic. Missus volunteered two of her Oxo cubes from the UK to our soup. Well, put that in with the beef stock we used for the base, and the beef I seared and put in, and the outcome was amazingly beefy flavored. As in, it was one of the most amazing beef flavored anything I have had in a long time. I really enjoyed it! And when I came back down from playing a couple of rounds of a 3D headset game, I had some when I put the soup away from the crockpot into the fridge. Holy cow! It tasted even better! Pity all steaks can’t taste that good. Add a little salt, and really bring out the flavor to perfection!
I did the dishwashing twice today. That stemmed from the conversation I had at the Health Department with the lady who works the front desk. She asked how my diet was coming along. I had told her about it when I was in to schedule the jabs for today. I told her that I was not sure how I was ever going to give it up because of how my joint pain has gone since I went on it. I said to her that one of the troubles with a lifetime of feeling such pain is that I have not got the habit of planning a full day. I know that I can work from when I get up to ten or eleven, and I have to plan around that. Well, these days I can go all day, and I am not in the mental habit of planning that much to do in a day. So there is that change.
There is a physical aspect too, of course. I am not fit enough to keep up. But I am working on it.
I don’t yet know what I cut from my diet exactly that relieved me of the lifelong joint pain. I’d love to! It might be nice to not add it back again when I stop doing Keto.
It’s Saturday tomorrow. I will be helping Missus sort a couple of things out then getting to work on some of my projects. Don’t ask just which one yet. I will probably have to clear my workbench first though. I doubt there is going to be much more working outside this year, though only the weather can tell!