August 15

Griff wanted a friend over yesterday afternoon, and I said that would be fine but he'd need to come with us on our walk. We'd be doing our "deer" walk, as we refer to the North end of Sawyer Camp Trail since we saw 4 deer last time. Sweet boy opted to have the friend come over AFTER our walk. He wanted to be with just me. It was a warm day, I thought we might get quite hot, but after the first half-mile the trail goes into intense woods where it's almost all shaded at 4 in the afternoon. It was very pleasant. Time went fast. We saw two bunnies, one right on the trail just 10 feet from us. Sooo cute. And a little 1.5" lizard held real still for us to gawk at.

It was the last day of Josh's football camp, and he made a point to add the word "ever" when I picked him up. Last day ever. He's made it clear that football was a high school experience and he would not be continuing it. So this year will be all about "lasts." bittersweet.

I went to Costco and thought I'd see what kind of chocolaty-vitamin thingy they had...looking for healthy substitutes for my mid afternoon sweets craving. I got a bag of calcium chews, actually very good. The boys were very interested and I said they are vitamins and they are welcome to one a day.

Also got this FullBar thingy which is a rip off. Should have read the ingredients. Suppose to eat it half hour before a meal with a glass of water. I't just puffed wheat, sweetners and chocolate. Very expensive puffed wheat. They taste okay, but satisfaction value, pretty low. The foodbar that really does it for me is the tiger bar. It's wickedly chocolaty.

I just signed up with weight watchers online again because I love it's points system and it's points tracker. Damn, I just looked up the Tiger's Milk bar and it is 5 points! (I get 27 points a day) and a Butterfinger is 6 points! Heck, may as well have a butterfinger. Just kidding, the Tiger's milk actually has food value. So I get to look around for MY most satisfying and lowest points foodbar.

Lunch

-marinated pork loin chunks all morning in the mango teriyaki

strung on sticks with big pieces of the walla walla sweet onions

and barbequed

-wrapped green beans and baby carrots in foil and grilled them, too

-steamed rice

Dinner

Sandwiches of turkey, lettuce, tomato and fresh mozzarella

Okay, we went to the movies and had popcorn and sodas