life in the old lane

Took the day off. Off from the fitness program.

The groundhog says 6 more weeks of winter. Well, I am planning 6 more weeks of Hawaii…

I think the original of the photo is bit too colorful. Break out Snapseed.

Things are fine in exciting downtown KailuaKona. I logged a little over five miles today. One mile was straight uphill. One mile was downhill. And the rest dead flat. BP 114/81. Weight 130. According to the machine at Walmart. If that is true that is OK.

SUPERBOWL tomorrow. Our American High Holy Day. And we have to root for the SeaHawks, since Paul Allen owns the SeaHawks and all those palm trees on the right side of the photo.

Hawai’i has some great dogs. This big guy is one of my favorites.

Today, I went to my first yoga class in over 20 years. It was a beginner class. I failed to distinguish myself. I still have a lot of flexibility. But my strength has gone and taken my balance along. I will try to hit a couple of beginner classes every week. I’ll show up in my old school knit shorts and t-shirt attire, with my hotel towel and cheap-ass sticky mat. I refuse to buy into the lulu lemon school of yoga.

It rained all day yesterday, until just about sundown. The rain was followed by a rainbow.

The rainbow was followed by a fine sunset.

The sunset was followed by nightfall.

The good
At least I hope this is good. Mr C got our unit for the next 2 years at our same high rent. The way I figure it, two years will give us enough time to come up with Plan B. Also, I figure that Carlton’s cancer will be most likely to return within two years if the Death Star didn’t get it all. So, two years is a good time.

The bad

My toe doesn’t seem to be up to the walking program. Well, that is too bad. The toe will have to get with the program.

The ugly

And this is why the diet/fitness program. I was going to get rid of these shorts this year anyhow. They are waaaaay tooooo short for a 70 year old woman. But they are going to fit. I hope.

 

Took this Photo with my old iPod while on my walk this morning. Every thing was ready for its arrival. Carlton was called in for an extra shift. Tour buses were stacked up. The most unsavory folk had been removed from the pier. But the passengers never arrived. Seems they couldn’t get the tenders launched.  That would make you real happy if you were a passenger — since the tenders are also the lifeboats.

But, I had a nice swim.  A nicer swim sans tenders. And I logged 6.77 miles today. I good thing since friends has us over for lunch. Shrimp, avocado, croissant, pie, ice cream and wine. All good.

A guy comes down to the pier. Sets up a folding chair. Gets a mask and a single fin out of a bag. Straps a dive knife on his left leg. He sits on the pier. Removes his right leg. Leaves the leg on the pier and swims away.

My dear friend, Carlton gave me a cold. He caught it from his seat mate on the plane. I am pretty sure that some evil virus will be unleashed on humankind via the coach passengers on a plane.

In deference to my cold, I only walked 5.1 miles today.

Another nice day. Walked 6.6 miles. The ocean was still a little unfriendly, so no swimming.

You all know that I am not a wildlife photographer. But I stopped to take a picture of this feral kitty. I pretended it was a tiger and I was on Safari in Africa.

We did get some waves today. But they were jumped as far as surfing went because of the wind. But that didn’t stop a few of the guys from trying.

In my crazed fitness campaign today I logged 6.4 miles.  We had meatloaf, potato salad and Brussels sprouts for lunch. Avocado and tomato sandwiches on tap for dinner. Carlton watched tennis on TV. Life is is good.

Windy and cloudy right now, we might have big waves tomorrow. They will have big waves on the other islands just don’t know how big they will be by the time they get here.  “They” say the waves will be 50 foot faces on Oahu with 18 footers on our island. We are on a bay. Arrival time late tomorrow AM. We’ll see…

I rather overdid my exercise routine today. After I walked 5 1/4 miles I was all done for the rest of the day. Did a little yoga and declared it too cold and cloudy for swimming.

And for all my friends in the snow here’s one from my walk this morning.

Walking done. Yoga done. Swim later. That is about it.

Now, about that rambutan. This is the part you eat. Seven calories of juicy sweetness.

Not completely at home with my computer free life. I miss my Lightroom. But this is good too. I just deleted about 100 photos from my SD card.  And frankly nobody will ever miss then.