10

minute run yesterday along with the 60 minute elliptical and my feet feel great today. I also lifted again on my legs, arms and abs. The running was easier in the latter part of the run so I increased the pace and then I felt really good. According to the doc on Monday my resting heart rate has already decreased to 65 from 80 (last years rhr). I think the d'ribose (naturally found in the kreb cycle) is giving me that kick I needed while working out and the quick recovery rate. Two benefits listed for d'ribose.

I will expound, hopefully on my next post, about my internship from this summer, and the steps I am taking to help the attachment between Mim and me.

Health Update

My total thyroid is 2.60 meaning still too high, my wellness docs are shooting for a number in the 1.00 range, so my thyroid medicine ARMOUR was upped to 105 mcg. I had told my sister who is having the same issue as me with her thyroid that I felt my numbers are better because of my improved energy and a wiggle on the weight loss, but I had predicted it was still too high and I was correct, proving patients are usually correct in how they are feeling, thus once again emphasizing to me that we need to be our own advocates. Remember me fighting for this years ago when I was first diagnosed but the docs (different ones) said having a number in the 3.00 range was normal, but everything I read stated otherwise, and I never lost weight or felt any better, and then I got side tracked with all this cancer and stuff, but now I am back onto my thyroid and I have found the right doctors (my lyme doc)...I knew they were the right ones because they are the ones who told me that they wanted my numbers in the 1.00 range, I didn't have to fight for it.....so still on the road to health improvement...

Eight

minutes of running yesterday along with the 60 minutes on the elliptical and lifting again. My weight is up, but I know that is due to the muscle I am building from the weight lifting. My hips feel slimmer and I feel a lot stronger in all the areas I am lifting. Muscle weighs more than fat, so it will be awhile before I see a swing downward in my weight again.....at least I hope I see a swing downward again. Logically I know why I see the weight gain, emotionally I hate it......

Finally...the garden is ready for harvest

Our garden is late, partly due to the late date we had it planted and partly due to the weather...we have been eating lettuce for weeks now, we keep a huge bowl of freshly picked lettuce in our refrigerator at all times during the summer months. Today we hit the jack pot, our fully flowered cucumber plants and yellow beans have started our preserving season. I canned 2 quarts and 1 pint of yellow beans, and we cut up four huge cucumbers (apparently we missed these) and gave them to the chickens and ducks and the rest we ate a fresh salad for supper and have another on ice.

 today's yellow beans

 today's cucumbers

 Tuki cutting some fresh cukes for supper

 our forest of tomato plants that are full of flowers and green tomatoes, we have 7 rows and we left about a foot of space between but they are huge anyway.

 One of our Russian sunflower plants

 our doubly protected cabbage

 another sunflower in the foreground of our lettuce, carrots, yellow beans and beets

 our swamp of pumpkins, squash and gourds

one of the baby pumpkins

Post of Past Photos

 pond lily at Jordan Lake

 Tuki riding shotgun in the tandem kayak

 Heathcliff running the show as always

 Great Blue Heron

 Mim, Ve and Einstein

 water lily

 Traded dogs, Mim with Zamboni

 The crew as we were leaving for the day

 Tuki and Ve, the injured track warriors

 Mim running in the long jump..she won this event for her age class

The two t-shirts Mim won in the long jump and 400 for her age group.

Zamboni around 3 1/2 months, we have him in obedience class and par for his breed, he is learning quickly

Kestrel Banding

finally got the pictures re-sized for the blog. We went banding with friends back in June.

 The girls with Zamboni

 Comparing the plumage of a male (left) with a female (right)

 Sisters helping each other

 The girls each holding a bird.

 A cool close up of a male

Cool shot of Ve holding a female

Seven

minutes today and just a little faster....I am also trying D'ribose for extra energy (today was the first day)....it was recommended to me by my wellness tick-borne disease doc. All natural body produced sugar.....ATP. We'll see how it works over time..

One more day left of summer school, then Camp Invention next week for Tuki and another week of swim lessons.

The week after that Tuki and Ve will attend VBS (vacation bible school) and Mim will work as a volunteer in one of the classrooms.

The third weekend we will attend a church bible camp in Waupaca with the family, of course.

The week after that Mim starts CC running practice by day and will attend the Worship Band camp by night.

and then the week after that I start school....and we still need to clean the basement and garage sometime in the next month as well....yikes where has the time gone.