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I have to agree with Liz. I am more myself when I can have outdoor time in comfort : ) Obviously I can go outside in Minnesota whenever I want, but I don't enjoy it in winter.

Sounds like full days in Sedona!

When you mentioned the avoidance of sugar and bread and feeling mad when other people have them I realized how much easier it is right now to avoid that stuff. DH is staying away from it too so there isn't any in the house. Deceased DH never had a weight problem so would keep stuff around that I shouldn't have been eating and the same happened in the first few years with current DH. Hence the weight creep. So much easier when it isn't around to temp me and no one else is eating it.

191.2 Goodness, avoiding sugar and bread and taking tirzepatide is a good combo. The refined carbs (and their easy consumption and calories) were killing me diet-wise and keeping my weight and appetite up. The sad part is I love those, but as the days go on, it's getting easier to not feel mad about not eating them when other people are having them.

I had an HOA day from hell yesterday. 4 separate conversations about a fellow board member who is walking 4 of their large dogs off leash. They are all exceptionally well trained search and rescue dogs on e-collars, but the rule is "on a leash" and two separate homeowners aren't happy about it. They are usually heading out of the neighborhood to the trails, so they aren't walking in here for long, but a rule is a rule.

One of the people I talked to stopped by the house to talk to me about the dogs. She was nice about it. And the best part, at the end she abruptly changed the subject and said, "you look really good!" and started talking about how she needs to lose weight. So the weight loss is now starting to show.

It's raining today. Woohoo! Not hard, but I'll take what I can get. Yesterday we didn't do much beyond walking the dog, but it was beautiful and included some sitting in the sun. We tried to watch Unfamiliar on Netflix, but between the awkwardness of the voices dubbing it and the fact that the subtitle script didn't at all match what they were saying, we gave up. It was slow and hard to follow too, so kiss of death. Oh, we also watched a lot of Olympics. Given Claudia was from Vail and worked for the Vail Co. for nearly 40 years, she knows a lot of the Colorado kids skiing in the events and worked with some of their parents. And she's good at explaining events and stuff to us as we are not skiers.

Tonight we are heading to dinner with the family friends who moved here from MI. We're trying out a new bbq place and seeing their new house (and visiting the rugs, lamps, and furniture in their new home).

So that's the news from Sedona!

Good morning from Porto Alegre! We don't have any specific plans for today. It was nice to wake up in our quiet little apartment. Our room at the beach was across from the breakfast room, so there was a certain amount of noise every morning.

Carnival is starting up. Carnival is celebrated differently, depending upon the community. We've all seen the Rio celebrations. At our beach, they said it was calmer and more family oriented, at the beach town next door it is a street party, and pretty wild. Here in Porto Alegre most of the action is in the night clubs. We are not interested in going to night clubs, and are probably too old to anyhow, so I don't know if we will see any Carnival action. Currently researching if there will be any Samba parades.

Tomorrow we are having lunch with another one of my Brazilian "brothers" and his wife. Back in the days I was a student living with his parents, he was already married with 2 children, but played a big brother role just the same. Another of the brothers who took us to the wine country is returning from Europe today, and wants to do another trip to a different town in the Serra Gaucha, maybe next week. I'm afraid these next 10 days will go too fast! We leave on February 23, returning to the US on the 24th. We're enjoying what each day brings.

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Here again in a place I so enjoy.

It's been a truly hobbily-hoy beginning of the year so far, and I can't quite get into the flow of things...for example, although the trees are down (as of Wednesday) all the Christmas stuff is still sitting in the dining room waiting to be boxed and stored....jeeps, it's Valentine's Day tomorrow and the snowman china remains in the kitchen cabinets. What's with that?

SEKansas is in the midst of delightful faux spring weather which helps motivate me to be done with hibernation a bit...won't last and expecting some snowstorms into March which also won't last. Defiantly enjoying the hint of change.

Been very hit and miss keeping up with all the delightful activities happening here and will certainly check out previous posts.