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Harvest Home, B-day, Fu, etc.
Our first Harvest Home went pretty well, despite weather glitches. About two dozen people, four of them camped. Archery, pila throwing, classes (useful knots, teneriffe, medieval farm animals, bookbinding), schmoozing, and a nap or two. Excellent potluck Saturday evening!
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L's birthday was yesterday, which was pretty much a regular day as our birthdays often are - work, kung fu, etc. But we did go out to Elmer's for breakfast and the staff sang 'happy birthday' while serving the chocolate cheesecake ;) And I helped out a bit with chores and in particular some of the grodier stuff, since he usually does most of those.
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Trying to restrict carbs more, to get the weight-loss going again. Yesterday was a loss of course, what with the cheesecake, but I should do all right today. And we did still have lovely salads and other healthy things, so there's that.
Sugar carbs today will likely just be the bit of honey in the oxymel, and a peach or two. The peach tree is doing well this year, and I intend to enjoy those! Besides, peaches and apricots are high in fiber, not just tasty.
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Kung Fu and fitness in general are progressing. I think I owe my being able to get back up on my hands and knees (from having been flattened to the ground during the adrenalin response workshop), to the strengthening of core muscles. Long way to go yet, but there are some small improvements in how the knees are doing these days.
We finished learning the moves for the first sword form and started the next hand form. There will, of course, need to be a lot of practice, refining, etc.
Yesterday was weapons class but we spent most of it on self-defense practice. There is an awful lot to learn for that, which can't all be covered in just one class a week. Sifu wants everyone to be much better at it, and to have at least some basic moves down to the point they're instinctive.
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The garden is happier for the rain, and peaches are not the only thing needing harvesting!
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L's birthday was yesterday, which was pretty much a regular day as our birthdays often are - work, kung fu, etc. But we did go out to Elmer's for breakfast and the staff sang 'happy birthday' while serving the chocolate cheesecake ;) And I helped out a bit with chores and in particular some of the grodier stuff, since he usually does most of those.
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Trying to restrict carbs more, to get the weight-loss going again. Yesterday was a loss of course, what with the cheesecake, but I should do all right today. And we did still have lovely salads and other healthy things, so there's that.
Sugar carbs today will likely just be the bit of honey in the oxymel, and a peach or two. The peach tree is doing well this year, and I intend to enjoy those! Besides, peaches and apricots are high in fiber, not just tasty.
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Kung Fu and fitness in general are progressing. I think I owe my being able to get back up on my hands and knees (from having been flattened to the ground during the adrenalin response workshop), to the strengthening of core muscles. Long way to go yet, but there are some small improvements in how the knees are doing these days.
We finished learning the moves for the first sword form and started the next hand form. There will, of course, need to be a lot of practice, refining, etc.
Yesterday was weapons class but we spent most of it on self-defense practice. There is an awful lot to learn for that, which can't all be covered in just one class a week. Sifu wants everyone to be much better at it, and to have at least some basic moves down to the point they're instinctive.
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The garden is happier for the rain, and peaches are not the only thing needing harvesting!
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