Sounds very industrious, everyone!

I picked more Swiss chard this evening to go with dinner, and cut up a second batch that I cooked (I steam it in a pan in a basket, and I usually cut the large leaves into strips cross-wise) for lunch tomorrow. The steak was out of the freezer (I am not eating nearly as much beef with this fasting diet, and that has to be part of the reason why it lowers harmful levels of some hormones or chemicals in the bloodstream). I've been drawing down the freezer contents in the last couple of months - I am going to get myself some free-range chickens to cut up and freeze after payday (you need a wheelbarrow full of money to buy those expensive hens!)

My potatoes aren't ready, but they're coming along. I have green tomatoes and blooms on various other things, and there is a banana pepper out there almost ready to eat. I eat strawberries in the garden, I have to beat the bugs and my ex-husband to them. I've been tending the zucchini carefully, watching out for the worms that kill them off by boring out the main stem (I'm pouring a mix of compost tea and a little Bt over them every week or two).

I mowed out front tonight, I worked a bit in the sun room, and I ran a couple of small handwash loads of laundry - I think I mentioned picking up some fabric yesterday. I'll see which I want to put on the frame once I've ironed them both.

My weight is still creeping downward. I am trying to keep my eating on regular days to healthy stuff, but I don't beat myself up for those occasional ice cream cones. Lunch (my one meal) tomorrow is going to have a couple of the most gorgeous little Ataulfo mangoes I found yesterday, along with some strawberries and yogurt, some walnuts, and some of that chard from tonight. Eclectic, but all stuff I love. :) I've been eating these little Mexican mangoes since last winter when I was watching the women shopping in a local Hispanic grocery store. They bypassed the big green/red ones for these little ones. They are so good, the seed is smaller and the flesh is buttery.

Tomorrow I'll climb the stairs in my library a few times. It doesn't tire me out as much as it did a couple of months ago, and I'm making more trips. The thing about being successful in a dieting plan is the more weight you lose, the more energy you have.

SRS