Sunday Linkage

 

Website Linkage
Animal Magnetism SATURDAY GINGERMAGEDDON
The Feral Irishman Friday Femme Fatale Farrago…. 
Bustednuckles For you grammar nazis… Spelling too!
Woodsterman Happy Funday ~ Speak Blonde?
Whores & Ale Two for Tuesday
Non-Original Rants Saturday Meme Drop……
The Air Vent Fulton County Could Lose Over Ten Thousand Democrat Voters This Year
Watts Up With That? There is NO CLIMATE EMERGENCY
Freedom Is Just Another Word… Sunday Memes…
The Daley Gator DaleyBabes
A Trainwreck In Maxwell Your Rule Five Monday puzzle

Fish’n……………….

I bought a fishing license for the first time in about 6-7 years !!

I literally don’t know where to get the time to fish, but this year I’m going to make time.

My knowledge of fishing is “worms, hook, bobber”.

So the first thing I need is “Worms”.

It was weird, I dug in my garden, no worms, I dug under my compost pile, no worms.  The compost pile is usually ground zero for worms.

I didn’t find any worms until I dug grass out from around the tree :

I cut the ring around the tree to enlarge it:

So, I found worms, but not big night crawlers.  But they would work.

So after doing the concrete work at my brother’s house, I stopped at a park district lake (former quarry hole)

I put the worm on, cast out about 30 feet and “BAM”, got hits right away but I couldn’t hook anything. This went on for about 10 minutes and three worms (picked clean) before I decided to put a smaller hook on.

First cast, “BAM”, hit and hooked !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After that, almost every cast was a “fish on”.

All I caught was Bluegills, yeah, I ain’t too proud !!!

A lot of small ones, but caught about 6 that were almost the size of my hand and would have been good enough for eating if I were camping.

After the first catch, I stayed for about an hour.

Good day !!!!!

CONCRETE DAY !!!!!!!!!!!!

My brother had a little bit of concrete work to do and I volunteered to help.

Back when I worked construction, concrete days were my favorite days.

 

My brother needed to widen the approach on his driveway.

Cut the blacktop, excavate the gravel, and set the form…..

The company that my brother works for rented the “Mud Mixer” for a job and since they had a few more days on the rental, he brought it home for a couple of small projects.

Pretty nifty little machine, just slam a bag of concrete onto the hopper where it breaks open and it mixes.

It’s easy to move by had to place the concrete.

All done…………….

Sunday Linkage

 

Website Linkage
Animal Magnetism SATURDAY GINGERMAGEDDON
The Feral Irishman Friday Femme Fatale Farrago…. 
Bustednuckles It’s Been A Long Week
Woodsterman Outer Beach Wear ~OR~ Rule 5 Woodsterman Style
Whores & Ale Two for Tuesday
Non-Original Rants Saturday Meme Drop……
The Air Vent Here’s One for the Coincidence Theorists
Watts Up With That? The Biden Administration Ever More Delusional on Energy
Freedom Is Just Another Word… Saturday Memes…
The Daley Gator DaleyBabes
A Trainwreck In Maxwell Your Rule Five Monday puzzle

New Addition To The Family……..

I think I’m getting better at my bacon making process, but there is one thing that’s lacking.  I like my bacon thick cut/slabby for making sammiches, but it really doesn’t seem to taste like  “regular” bacon unless it gets cut thinner.  I have reached my limits for manually slicing the bacon as thin as I can.

So, I popped into a thrift store on the way home one day and “POW”, there was a meat slicer on the shelf.  It’s in very good condition and works “fine”.  $12.00……..

The problems are:

1:     I have to hold the meat with my left hand and force it against the blade and keep it flat

2:     My left thumb has to hold a safety tab to slide the tray forward.

3:     The entire unit slides forward and sideways when operating.

I was able to get thinner slices, but the next batch I will go a little thinner yet.

I am also going to mount it on a piece of wood so it won’t slide or move too much.

Sunday Linkage

 

Website Linkage
Animal Magnetism SATURDAY GINGERMAGEDDON
The Feral Irishman Friday Femme Fatale Farrago…. 
Bustednuckles Brothers…………
Woodsterman Sports ~OR~ Rule 5 Woodsterman Style
Whores & Ale Two for Tuesday
Non-Original Rants Saturday Meme Drop……
The Air Vent By Any Means Necessary
Watts Up With That? Guardian: Politicians “Propagated the Myth” that Renewables are Easy
Freedom Is Just Another Word… Saturday Memes…
The Daley Gator DaleyBabes
A Trainwreck In Maxwell Your Rule Five Monday puzzle

So, I Ran A 5K……………………..

OK, before someone sees my time, I didn’t actually “run” the 5K.  It was faster than a “lollygag” or “plodding” but it was not “run”.  (That would last far less than 5K for me!!)

The morning was bright and sunny but very chilly but it was at least dry.

My time:     35:24

Pace:            11:24

1st lap:          17:05

2nd lap:        18:19

Considering I hadn’t done any running since the China Wuhan Virus Scam and just started training last November, I was very pleased.

The last 5K I ran was 10/2019

Time:       34:16

Pace:         11:02

5 years older and only a minute difference……………….

This was definitely the smallest organized race I have ever been in.

I used to like to do 3-4 races a year just as motivation.

I was tipping the scales in 2019 at 230 lbs.  Definitely 20 lbs more that I should be.   Well, several years of very low physical activity other than yardwork, I hit 250 last year.  I then decided that by the time I turned 60, I wanted to be back at 220.  60 is an arbitrary number.  Every physical I’ve had in the last 20 years, I was always just on the good side of blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose etc.  I decided that I was not going to be a 65-year-old person on multiple medications for anything………..

NOT GOING TO DO THAT !!!

So, I was going to try to fix all my vitals with diet and exercise.  Recently turned 60 and I was at 225 on my birthday.  Not bad at all.  The diet went well at first, all I was doing was eating less.  I lost 15 lbs in about 6 months and hit a plateau. That was even with being on the treadmill every day.

Since high school I had always been very active in sports and athletic activities.  Weight loss was always easy, fewer calories in and exercise.

There was a lady at work that had lost a noticeable amount of weight.  She was doing the “Carnivore” diet where all you eat is meat.  I had heard for years about how bad “CARBS” were but never really looked into it or even believed it.

I had always been wary of “fad” diets.

Keto

Paleo

Atkins

Zone

Gluten

Scarsdale

South Beach

Diets will always fail; it has to be a lifestyle…………………………

But, after doing some research into the low carb thing, I went for it.  Doing “zero carbs” would be mentally and physically impossible for me but I did cut out the grossest of the carbs: Potatoes, fruits, most veggies, rice, bread, pasta and sugars.

I’ve been doing it for about 12 weeks, down 10 pounds and feel GREAT !!!!!!

I have another 5K planned for 06/01 and would like to do 1 a month until Novemebr.

 

Sunday Linkage

 

Website Linkage
Animal Magnetism SATURDAY GINGERMAGEDDON
The Feral Irishman Friday Femme Fatale Farrago…. 
Bustednuckles Celebrate the day, April 19, 1775.
Woodsterman Babes ~OR~ Rule 5 Woodsterman Style
Whores & Ale Two for Tuesday
Non-Original Rants Saturday Meme Drop……
The Air Vent The Communist Gaian’s Aren’t Even Trying To Hide Their True Agenda
Watts Up With That? Evaluating The Model Projections
Freedom Is Just Another Word… Saturday Memes…
The Daley Gator DaleyBabes
A Trainwreck In Maxwell Your Rule Five Monday puzzle