Did a lot of walking, yesterday. After doing some research, we bought a GE Juice Extractor. Used it for the first time this morning. It works really well, is easy to clean up, and the first juice I made was delicious, plus the goat next door had a nice pile of pulp to gobble down. The recipe I used included:

4 stalks of celery
1 bunch of kale parsley
half of a lemon
2 Granny Smith apples
1 cucumber
and a little bit of ginger root.

I had already had breakfast, so I only had a little bit to drink. I'll use it for my lunch today, but my taste buds are craving it right now!

The other good news is I've lost another 1.2 pounds.

Roger is away this morning for a couple of hours, so I think I'll declutter more of my e-mail, fold some laundry, and finish up more laundry. I may ask Morgan if he wants to come over for a little bit.

He and I have started a neat new bedtime ritual: about 30 min. before he has to go to bed we get on the phone and take turns reading to one another out of the old Childcraft books. When we lived back east, I found sets for each of my kids as well as a set for myself, of the old ones. I'd grown up with them and just love the stories and poems. Last night was funny, Morgan read me some short poems and we said good night. No sooner had I hung up the phone, it rang again. Morgan was giggling his head off saying he was just talking to his dad and everything was coming out in rhymes! His laughter was infectious!

kathopeful