Life has been pretty normal around here recently...not much to write about. My exercise regimen last week included some new qigong workouts as well as some additional ab work. I can always tell when I've done good strengthening work, because I'm hungry and tired for a few days. Healing sucks my energy like a sponge ( Read more... )

As I said before I left for the conference last week, I was a bit worried about the available food choices for the 3.5 days that I would be eating catered breakfasts and lunches, and eating supper at a restaurant. Normally I cook most of my own food, and follow a primarily ovo-vegetarian diet. I prefer whole grains (mostly brown rice and rolled ( Read more... )

Our annual veggie cookoff at work today. My gosh, but I think this was the best year ever. I ate a little bit of everything, and loved it all. I'm so full.

My entry (well, really rfunk's too, because he helped with the cooking) was ratatouille, using the recipe we recently discovered in the Vegetarian Times Fast and Easy cookbook. I got several ( Read more... )

There's not much to update. My back's doing much better. I've been seeing my chiropractor for 4 weeks now. Next week I graduate to "rehab" status, and she'll give me some actual strengthening exercises! Woohoo ( Read more... )

The problem with having cooked and eaten so much lasagna* in the past week is eating all that pasta. White pasta, too (I usually cook with whole wheat pasta, but I wasn't sure how that would work with the recipes we used, which were made for white pasta ( Read more... )

My weekend was pretty quiet. Saturday we went to the Columbus International Festival, which probably would have been more enjoyable if I had been organized enough to have already made my Christmas gift shopping list. But I did meet up with a friend there to watch some belly dancing, which I enjoyed (some more than others, but over all I did enjoy ( Read more... )

I think one of the best things about late summer is being able to have plenty of farm fresh vegetables on hand. I got a bunch from the CSA yesterday, to add to the veggies we already had on hand. And of course we have to eat them before they go bad, so we've been feasting ( Read more... )

I split a weekly share of vegetables from a local CSA (Sippel Family Farm) with two other people. Each week when the share arrives, two of us split it equally. One person rotates off each week, round robin style. According to our schedule, last week was supposed to be my week off, so I bought vegetables at the farmer’s market instead.

Turns out, ( Read more... )

Water pressure update: the pressure seems fine inside, but the hydrant outside was without water pressure this afternoon. Water goes to the hydrant before getting pressurized at the tank. So maybe there is a problem with the well pump as well. Great. I’ll have to call the driller out to give it a second look.

In other news, dinner consisted of ( Read more... )

The woman I split my CSA share with missed our pickup last week, so I've been running low on veggies. We were almost out, and suppers for the last two nights have been a bit creatively put together. But today I was reminded that the Pearl Alley Farmer's Market* is on Tuesdays, so I went over there on my lunch break ( Read more... )