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Breaking Routine and Mango Avocado Salsa

Our typical Friday night routine is dinner out then home to watch a movie or one of our favorite series when it’s not a repeat. Our typical Saturday is spent doing chores after a good workout. Sunday, a long workout, breakfast and chores, baking/cooking something special and/or relaxing ….depends on the weather. This week, we broke from routine. Friday: We DID eat dinner out but went to Vernon Downs to see Ostrich and Camel races instead of the Standardbreds, (although they were racing as well). The Ostrich went off before the Camels. The birds pulled a buggy sort of contraption [...]

By Joanne|2014-06-22T16:08:33-04:00June 22, 2014|Vegetarian|1 Comment

All Day Workout Fun

Ted and I had no definite plans for the long weekend so we decided on a bike trip. Monday aka Labor Day turned out to be beautiful. It wasn’t outrageously hot and there was a slight breeze. Both of us took advantage of our time off and the weather by enjoying (YES! “enjoying”) a speed workout at the track. Ted did great with minimum soreness in his knee and I was thrilled with my paces. So rare for us to enjoy running in circles around a track exerting our selves more than we’d like on a day off. The forecast [...]