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It's 2:54 am Sunday morning. Not unusual for me to be up now. What is unusual is going for a walk at that time of the morning. It's 15 celcius, just a nice breeze so why not. Summers are too short here...and often include rain. For anyone reading from a non winter clime, you don't know how I envy you. Every plan I had led to the not unusual notion of spending winters ANYWHERE warm. But that's not going to happen so I have to take these little opportunities like a warm night time walk which IS unusual for here. And maybe I can kind of pretend I actually live somewhere warm...where I can walk anytime I like.
Even in this little city I live in, pop 55K, a nightime walk can bring interesting surprises. I notice quite a few houses at 2 in the morning that have a basement light on..or a bedroom light. Hmmmm what are pple doing. Then there's houses with no sign of anyone up, but all kinds of lights on! People with too much money who don't worry about utility bills? I take empty plastic bags on every walk cause recyclable bottles & cans are like a little treasure...and a big piece of my history. My dad used to walk to & from work everyday..in his suit, overcoat & come home with bottles (from a time when beer bottles were all you could take in to a local brewery). 21 yrs ago, when my daughter was 6 & son was 1 & riding in his stroller, we would walk every nice day in thr neighborhood where new houses were being built & find 75-100 dollars worth of bottles to return every week from jobsites. Things have changed for a while now. Too many houses under construction broken into, most construction companies pick up their refuse at the end of the day. But I always find a few & it brings back good memories.
What else from my night time stroll? One refuse container I see has a light glowing in the dark? wth? I dig in a bit and find an led trouble light still turned on. Would have been something if it had been a cell phone!
I hear voices in conversation all of a sudden. It is 2 in the morning & dark so antenna goes up. Turns out its just 2 (late teens?) guys out for a bike ride. Why not?
The main street I'm walking on has the typical late night drag race. Typical of todays generation, its a loud obnoxious rice rocket...racing a Dodge minivan. Mom would be pisssed!
As I turn into the quieter part of the neighborhood, I see a couple sitting in their driveway, garage all lit up. We all wave..but say nothing. Just a normal late night in the neighborhood😄 Do they wonder why I'm walking late at night with a bag in my hand? I sure wonder why their garage is all lit up behind them & there they are in lawn chairs like its 2 in the afternoon the day before! There is stuff in the driveway..did they finish up a garage sale that day? just move into the house? Should I have asked if they had any good junk to get rid of?
I wander by a townhouse where often I have seen 2 women yacking away at each other from neighboring properties. I chuckle because they can't see each other from their porches, covid keeping them apart but their friendship continues. This morning, just the older gal is sitting in the shadows on the porch, dressed up like iys daytime. Having a smoke. I quietly say hello to my fellow nocturnal creature. She just stares. Maybe she's a monster at night.
As I'm about to round the corner home, I see a pile of free post garage sale stuff on the corner of a lawn. Daytime I probably would't root through it. But its a time when few of us night creatures are out. I have no shame & find 2 perfectly fine Ottawa Grey Cup 2004 I believe, seat cushions. Well...I'm going to grab those! Why? I don't know. And even as I write this it comes to me. Cushions for my dad's little fishing boat! I am my dad's son. Find a use for anything, now or later.
My journal started out as you would expect, about losing weight, food, fasting. So why do I write now about anything that I feel like writing about? Because my weight issues are tied to my emotions which are tied to food. Its all one big happy family.
I just had my first coffee of the day at 3am. Normally a no no as OMG I want to weigh first! But I remind myself "we are not weighing everyday anymore!" so I have that damn good cup o' joe to start my day.
Was that thunder? at 330am? Yep. WIndow is open & the rain smells so good. Glad I got that walk in at 2am🙃😃
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1598 kcal
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Fat: 141.59g | Prot: 65.27g | Carbs: 16.69g.
Lunch: Gay Lea Sour Cream 14%, Keto Shrimp Cakes, Mitchell's Heritage Thick Sliced Bacon, Lucerne 33% M.F. Whipping Cream, Coffee. more...
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