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Egg Sandwich

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Did you have a good weekend?

Mine was low-key.  Lots of walking, good eats, and a few projects around the ol’ homestead.

Yesterday was an egg sandwich!  Eggy breakfast and dinner sandwiching a long walk.

I finally got around to making soaked English Muffins again.   These doughy disks have been on my mind since I made them two months ago and they didn’t disappoint.

This batch featured white whole wheat instead of spelt and loads of rosemary.  I soaked the dough for about 15 hours.

I love the chewiness of the crust and the dense doughiness of the center that is an English muffin. Mmmmm.

My feet carried my 15 miles around Cville between Saturday and Sunday!  I am only 15 miles away from my goal of 100 miles of walking this month!   Honestly I didn’t think that I would make this goal but now that I am so close I am totally determined.

Anyone want to join me to commit to walking 15 miles over the next four days?  That’s only 3.75 miles a day or a little over an hour of walking at a moderate speed.  Sound like a lot?  Break it up into two or three sessions!

Matt, Kath, Tate and I walked a meandering 6 miles around town yesterday afternoon.  The best milage is with friends. 🙂 After two hours I wasn’t ready for it to end, I could have walked for another hour.

[KERF]

More eggs!  Simple Sunday supper.

Veggie-full frittata and salad.

I ♥ frittatas and this one was especially good, I think it was all of the nutmeg and veggies.

Quinoa sprouts!  Red quinoa sprouts!

These are awesome.  Sprouts add so much flavor, texture, and nutrients, love them.

Usually my craftiness revolves around the kitchen but this weekend I got crafty with the paint brush also.

Chalkboard jars!

Nearly everything in my cupboards is stored in jars and now I can keep track of whether those buckwheat groats are raw or toasted and what the nutritional stats on the oat bran are (I’ve looked that one up countless times!).

I haven’t mention Exercise TV in a while but I still use it at least a few times a week.  Yesterday I did my favorite (Exercise TV) yoga video, Yoga Fitness Plus with Elise Gulan.  This 45 minute intermediate vinyasa flow is fun and leaves me wanting for nothing (except Savasana, you have to do that on your own time).

Stay warm and make a great day!

Namaste Delay

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Go directly to your yoga mat, do not open the refrigerator, do not collect the mail.

Kath, Tate, and I tried to go to a free yoga class at Ashtanga Yoga Charlottesville this afternoon but unfortunately it was canceled. 🙁  I was so excited that Tate was interested in going to yoga so hopefully his interest will last through the next time I ask him to go.  He does yoga with me about twice a year.

Kath and I did get a lovely 3.5 mile walk in and I got to take the spinal decompression machine for a ride.

This fancy and high priced piece of equipment was one of the items included in the purchase of the clinic and the main reason Tate was super excited about the whole deal.  It is a Lordex Spinal Decompression machine and excellent for treating herniated discs among other spine ailments.  It felt great and I was at least a foot taller when I stood back up.

My uddiyana was set on practicing yoga so when I arrived back home it was time to get down to it.  I walked in the door and immediately turned on a Dave Farmar podcast, distraction is cheap these days so I knew that I must immediately get on my mat.  After about 20 minutes the hunger hit.  Is it strange that my appetite can go from 0-60 in a matter of minutes?  Before long my belly was taking all of my focus away from my pranayama and I committed to finishing another 15 minutes then calling it good and eating dinner.

Dinner was practically instant, reheated split pea soup topped with homemade (strained) yogurt.  A hearty hug in a bowl. 🙂

Something Dave said in the podcast Kath and I did on Sunday has stuck with me.  I have known for a long time that one focus of yoga can be to learn find calm and focus in uncomfortable situations (long holds, tricky balances, life) but I hadn’t thought about how finding grace in the transitions between poses can translate into “real life”.   Dave talked about paying extra attention to the transitions and practicing them with all of the grace, strength, focus, and balance you give to each pose.  He also spoke about how this relates to daily life and that transitions, as tricky as they can be, have their own challenges, beauty, and lessons.

My life has been nothing but transitions for the last 13 months so this really resonates with me.  Just a new way to think about them.

Time to go back to the kitchen to make some coconut oil fudge (sugar-free of course!).