Food Plan for December 2021

  On my birthday, 4/11, I watched the young doves struggle to re-build their nest from prior years. But they had broken the security light, and no sticks would stay up there. Repeatedly failing, I saw them sitting on the purple & green table nearby resting. I decided I had to help them. So I spent an hour thinking, searching in the basement, and finding a small straw basket, an old shoelace, and then opened a ladder underneath the security light. I managed to tie the basket around the light, then made a few more trips up the ladder with handfuls of small broken twigs, sticks, and soft long grasses and leaves. And I walked away. It's been 2 days, and when I looked up, there they were. Both of them. Now they both can fit inside the nest and one doesn't have to perch in the nearby tree to watch over the nest. I've never seen both up there, together. I feel this was a timely effort and the new nest has given them a great start in beginning their new family in Apr...

 I'm feeling a little better each day, now.  I started this life changing venture on Thanksgiving day. 11/26/2021.  Since my concussion, I have been unable to calculate food intake on paper, and slowly the pounds came back on.  It didn't take long to begin eating foods that were available and easy to prepare, and all the weight I'd lost was back. 25 miserable pounds over 4 1/2 years.  It doesn't seem possible that on 10/27/2017 I suffered a traumatic head injury, and still suffer with blurry vision, imbalance, some memory issues, and have a gait abnormality. I can only stand 15 minutes before the legs hurt so badly and I have to sit. It takes a longer time to get my head wrapped around figuring out projects and guaranteed, I have not finish anything I start. But I've finally lost 22 lbs. and will hopefully continue to lose another 20 lbs.  Gardening will help move the pounds.   Yest I try.  It's more difficult to write, type, and read.  ...