The Empty Cabinets of my Mind

Running Hot and Cold

So we are up in the San Francisco Bay Area for the summer because the Palm Desert, like much of the nation is HOT, HOT, HOT.  Up here, on the other hand, we cannot put our jackets too far away:

 

Here my friend is relaxing a bit before we took out our sandwiches and became overrun by hungry seagull...and those delightful little squirrel-like things that we need to remember to keep at a distance, as they can transmit all sorts of germs, it is said. 

Well, we did keep them a ways off, but shared our food with them just the same.  This is near Asilomar on the Monterrey Penninsula. 

Google +

I have some of the nicest online friends.  When my head is deep in the sand, like an ostrich, or in a recent case, like a tourist (yes, the sand at Carmel-by-the-Sea is nice!), they keep me up to date on what is going on in cyber space.

Get thee to Google + my buddy said, so I'm reading about it in one window and typing this in another.  I like being sort of in the forefront on things like this.  It makes me feel cyber competent, sort of...

Breakfast as Usual

Actually, I didn't eat breakfast for many years and even now do not always like to eat in the morning.  For some reason, I am ravenous when traveling, whether by air or on a road trip. 

This is one of the reasons I like to frequent bed and breakfast inns, especially ones like The Victorian Rose in Ventura, which serve a sumptuous breakfast in addition to providing other amazing amenities.

Incidentally, Nona upgraded her website and it is worth taking another look if you haven't already:

My Favorite Bed and Breakfast

PS:  This is not a paid ad.  We just really love staying with Nona and Richard, and go there as often as we can. 

Got the Shakes?

From sweet potatoes pureed in milk and honey and blended into a creamy shake with ice to Natraburst's relatively new MLM product which I mix with chocolate and quaff daily, I am a confirmed health shake nut. 

I like nutrition bars too, not as meal replacement, but as a substitute for dessert.  Having weaned myself off from white flour products decades ago, now things like cake and donuts and pie crust just do not taste good to me.  I'd rather eat a diet bar for a sweet treat, or my all time favorite, a little bit of decadent dark chocolate.

Until recently my own little countertop sprout farm was churning out buckwheat lettuce, wheatgrass, and fennugreek sprouts on a daily basis, but I recently moved in with a friend who doesn't yet understand all this stuff, and we haven't quite figured out where I can put stuff.   Not only do I miss the super fresh crunchy green I had been growing, but my jeans seem to be filling out a bit. 

Instead of dieting, I have always considered commons sense nutrition to be a necessary and normal way of life.  I don't get all freaked out if 5 extra pounds pop up, and I never diet to get them off, but maybe I will drink more water, be more active and cut back a little on the carbs. 

Unlike a lot of folks these days, I consider bacon and eggs and real butter to be health foods, but like everything else, in moderation.  Therefore, it will be breakfast as usual.