Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Tuesday Tidbits

1) Just for grins, I took a photo of each of the dogs this morning.

Apparently, Bandit was too tired/lazy to get up for the photo. I was feeling the same way when my alarm went off, so I understand! Also note that he is sporting a reflective collar. He could be a runner, but he still pulls too much to go out with me. I leave it to Husband to run with him.

On the other hand, we have Stymie, the-giant-puppy-who-turned-1-yrs-old-a-few-weeks-ago-and-is-about-to-graduate-from-obedience-class. I'm thinking maybe I can start running with him soon.

The thing on the left in the picture with Stymie is the pool table and those tiles are 18" square, just to give you some idea of his small pony-ish size. I definately feel safe when I'm out with him...


2) Stepped on the scale this morning and was quite pleased with the number that showed up. Lowest weight that I've been for a good two years, and much closer to where I want to be. Yay!

3) We had church directory photos taken on Sunday. The photographer also took one other pose of our family which turned out nice, so I ordered that one. I am very happy about that. Might be the last opportunity for quite some time for a family photo with the four of us.

4) I was expecting to have a personal conflict tonight that would keep me from the running group. But that conflict went away. So now I'm on tap for intervals this evening. Not sure how I feel about that...

5) There are ants in my garden! I need to figure out a way to get them out of there without chemicals. Yesterday I tried sprinkling cinamon and coffee grounds on the opening to their hole. Later in the day, I saw a roadrunner hop the fence to my garden. Maybe he likes cinamon and coffee coated ants?

edited to add: Roadrunners are welcome to hang out in my garden. They eat things like snakes, rodents, insects, etc. They don't eat plants.

15 comments:

  1. Ants in the garden are generally good. Is there a reason why you want to get rid of them? Give me more details and I can help you out. Congrats on the weight loss.

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  2. I lived in Arizona for 17 years and the roadrunner is the state bird, yet, I have never seen a real live roadrunner.

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  3. Way to go on the weight loss! I loved running with my dog before she got too old. It always made me feel more secure :) Have a great day!

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  4. Congrats on your weight loss! It's always exciting to watch the number go down little by little.

    Your dogs are adorable. :) I don't have a dog to run with, but that's something that I look forward to after I finish school and stop living in little apartments.

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  5. Stymie! Ha! Love it... I weighed in this morning. I am down five pounds in about a month. Still way over where I would like to be, but its still early, and hey... I'm calling it all muscle :-)

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  6. Love the pups!

    I am still struggling to lose weight here... don't know what the deal is or how to change my diet any more... it's frustrating!

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  7. Hooray for roadrunner pest control!

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  8. Congrats on the weight loss!

    Stymie is a big puppy and probably will be a wonderful running companion. Do dogs have graduation parties? Just askin'.

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  9. Wait, a roadrunner is an actual animal?! I always thought it was just a cartoon character. (Sadly, I am not joking.....)

    Good luck with the intervals!

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  10. Cute (rather large) pup! Woohoo for good scale numbers!

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  11. Wow! It's all going great guns for you .. .YEAH!

    Congrats on the weight loss... and WHEN did the "puppy" get that big! Gosh!

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  12. So I am not the only one that wanted to hit snooze this morning and refrained from doing so? :)

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  13. Those are some very cute dogs. I miss having one. I think I hit snooze like 5 times this morning.

    I don't think I even know what a roadrunner looks like, will have to google. Somehow I am guessing he doesn't look like the one in the cartoons.

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  14. congrats on the weight loss that is awesome!

    cute puppies :D

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  15. Apparently baking powder gets rid of ants. I haven't tried it myself but Mum said so. Let me know if it works.

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