Good mornin y'all!

My mom has jury duty today. I'm going to enjoy the bit of time I have to myself. The couch is great and the kids love the pull out bed. They all came over yesterday. Overall it was a good weekend. My shoulder is hurting and I'm finally admitting that I have an issue with my left elbow. For around 3 months or more it's been bothering me. I swear my body is a lemon! It's just failing with a big f. I'm dealing with it ok though. The psych provider finally upped my antidepressant last time and it has helped tremendously and I am very grateful for it.

What happens today depends if my mom gets picked. If I'm home all day I'll get some stuff around the house done and work on chainmaille. I have a necklace idea that I'm trying to work out. So far i'm really liking it.

QOTD! Raspberries and I too adore the golden kiwis! So so good! I don't eat a ton of fruit. I get these Mexican ice cream bars. They are minis and have mango, strawberry and coconut with milk. Not really ice cream. Less than 80 calories for the first two and my mom eats the coconut ones. That's about as much fruit as I get. Sometimes when we go to Sam's it'll get the pack of raspberries to enjoy!

B: jimmy dean delights cauliflower breakfast sandwich, 1 tbs wild blueberry jam and coffee of course

L: thinking fish and some corn

D: will depend on my mom

The couch deterrent worked for the dogs but not the cats LOL. We are getting a nice cove for the couch that'll fit better and a waterproof pad for the seat then the dogs can get on it.

Good Monday morning gang. I hope all the dads out there had a nice Father's Day. I made Irvin a beef brisket and angel hair with shrimp and lobster pieces. It was a quiet weekend because Saturday it rained and then Sunday it was overcast and I didn't feel like doing anything. Just did some inside cleaning and cooking.

This week I start twice a week covering the scale for the next 8 weeks, but I get 6% upgrade pay for doing it so that's pretty good. I also have this Friday off and I'm hoping to go strawberry picking with my daughter and granddaughter.

QOTD: What's your favorite fruit? I love all sorts of fruit, but strawberries and golden kiwi's are at the top of my list followed by blueberries and red raspberries.

B: coffee and 1/2 cup cottage cheese with fresh strawberries

L: salad with cut up brisket

D: leftover pasta and seafood

30 minutes on the treadmill.

Have a great Monday everyone!!!

Good luck tomorrow and Happy Father's Day, Jim!

So sorry your arm is still so painful, good for you keeping up with your home exercises. Yikes, when pets don't get along it's awful. I brought a feral into our 4-cat household but none of them tolerated him and one would routinely attack. Is there any hope Percy and Tange will ever get along? Crossing fingers for you!

Beautiful lightning photo, did you take it? And the butterflies are really pretty it must have taken a long time to get all those edges smooth and then connected.

Hope your humidity will break soon.

Yay, glad it's Friday this week's been a butt kicker. But nothing compared to what you accomplished this week getting past that certification and then handling the extra work and printing problems like a pro! Hope you do get to watch the grandkids race. Sounds fun!

Chinese lunch update today: Decided on their plain salad (don't want sodium making me hold water tomorrow: weigh-in) and sneaked from home 2 oz black beans and 1 mozz stick but they had NO lettuce. Kind waitress got them to make steamed veggies w/no sauce which one of you suggested. Pretty, vibrant veggies sort of warm but strangely topped with big tough chunks of cold tomatoes. All that was safe was the tiny mushroom slices, maybe equaled 1 whole one. But Hey--first ever restaurant lunch of only 3 calories. LOL! Since RNY raw veggies don't work and these maybe saw a minute of steam. This weekend after weigh-in I'll cook them to death for a side with SALT, baby! haha

B- my usual protein/collagen shake, couldn't finish.

L- soft mushroom slices, then the rest of the shake at home.

D-will be black beans and mozz stick not eaten at lunch, 1/2 c cooked broccoli, 2 tsp butter to bring up my fat grams

LS-2 T chia seeds in water

QOTD- Friday the 13th is always a great day. I've never thought to look up what that fear is called. Now, Friday the 18th is horrible and I'd always superstitiously stay at home with the door locked if possible. Bad things always happen that day.

Going to try to post a Mostly Before and In Progress of the big section of my little garden. Crossing fingers I have this figured out. Have a fun weekend everybody. I'll be in the garden! Edit: clearly didn't work, le sigh.