The Deck is coming along nicely.

First ride on my new bike

I finally made my mind up to which road bike I was going to get. Giant Defy 1 it is a wonderful bike to ride not to stiff and it does ride great. I was totally surprised how comfortable the stock seat was seeing how narrow it is. I was also concerned about climbing the hills with having only 2 chain rings up front to work with, but the 10 gears in the back along with the compact chain ring setting was a wonderful experience. While this mornings ride was only 7 miles I did have a 20 mph wind to deal with, which would have meant with my other bike I would not even went out for the ride. But the gears shifted great and I was able to find a good match in gearing to let me have a great ride. I am looking forward to many more rides on this bike.

The work in the yard is an on going process.

A few pictures from today 4/13/2014

 

My wife and Dusty

 

My wife and dusty in the blue bonnets .

 

The front of out home after finishing the flower beds

 

 

Our Texas fountain and cowgirl and cowboy.

Our baby Diamond Dove has left the nest

Today the baby is two weeks old and it is already out of the nest.

My thoughts for the day 9/25/2013

I am at a point in my journey that my weight is only doing the normal day to day fluctuations, but now every few weeks to a month I am noticing changes in my body. A smaller waist, my thighs getting smaller, I have finally lost my man boobs.  I have had to learn that the NSV is more important and not to worry if I see a change of a few pounds every week. So I have started weighing myself and logging it in my journal and then average that out every few weeks. And what I am seeing is the same average within a half-pound over the last couple of months. So I have to wonder if I have hit my body’s set point or if I have just hit a plateau that is being very hard to get past. I am still eating a calorie budget that should be giving me about a half pound of weight loose per week, and it does not seem that it matters that much anymore how much I exercise, but I know I have to exercise because if I do not my blood pressure goes up.

If I have hit my set point that is great and if at some point I start to drop a little more weight that is also OK. I believe that I am doing what is right for my health and fitness and that is all that really matters to me anymore.

Meet Dusty she is our new Min Pin.

Meet Dusty she is our new Min Pin.