Go With The Flow

A rocket blasts off near Titusville tonight at around 7:30 pm..  It's the first launch in 2012.

                             Take it easy.  Go with the flow. Someone else is calling the shots.  Who?  So goes my mysterious horoscope.  I always go with the flow.  You must pick your fights.  You can pick your nose and pick your friends.  But you can't pick your friend's nose.

TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS

                             I can still take care of my responsibilities and be creative.  Why a horoscope would encourage that is beyond me?  Is it only Librans who should be creative?  Any way after breathing in exhaust fumes from the leaf blower just used on the green 10 feet from my kitchen door, I'm off to the lumber Store.  Oy vey!

TAKE A HIKE

                             I hiked the Cruikshank Trail with the Florida Trails hiking group.  It's five miles long in a loop around a pond at the end of the Seven Mile Black Poiont Drive in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Titusville,Florida.  We saw some egrets and coots trying to stay warm on a cold, windyu but sunny Central Florida winter day.  Driving out of the refuge later we saw a 15 ft alligator sunning on an island in a pond.
                              On the Cruikshank you see nothing but wide open spaces and vistas.  I guess that's worth an anuual 5 mile walk.  There is more wildlife at the local sports bars as the patrons liquor up for the football play offs leading up to Super Bowl Sunday than at the Refuge usually.  Still we march on and are tired at the end but relieved it was a cool rather than asweltering Florida day in the blazing sun.
                                A group dinner at Dixie Crossraods in Titusville owned by a fisherwoman and naturalist Laura Thompson who started the Brevard Bird Festival.  The festival held at Brevard Community College in Titusville,Florida every January is one of the best attended in the nation.    Almost all the Florida Trails hikers had the restaurant's specialty which is Rock Shrimp.  They are little crustaceans grillled with butter tasting like lobster and looking like shrimp.  It costs $12 and is basically an appetizer plus hush puppies(corn fritters) and cole slaw or cheese grits or vegetables.  The Bermuda Fish Stew is excellent and can be a side with basket for $12 or dinner with two sides for $15.  The service was quick and efficient  in a delightful open windowed party room.  The entire restaurant is decorated with fantastic flora,fauna and fish pictures by Al Rao, the local Titusville muralist.
                          Many of the hikers were going out the next day to hike 5 miles at a nature preserve along the St. John's River (which looks like a swamp)   on Rte 46 outside of North Titusville on the way to Geneva, Florida and just past the Jolly Gator Fish Camp.  Florida Trails has hiking groups throughout Florida with a hike once or twice a  week.  This group was centered in the Orlando area.  Most of the participants are women.

DON'T PUSH YOUR LUCK

                        Venus Goddess of Love that you are.  Surely the things I want can be wished on a star.
Chiron won't let everything come true.  But I can try.  Obstacles may occur in my love life.  What love life?

EATING AT BUFFETS MAKES YOU FAT

                              BEING FAT IS CAUSED BY OVEREATING AND NOT EXERCISING. PEOPLE THINK IF YOU GO TO A BUFFET AND ONLY EAT LARGE QUANTITIES OF PROTEIN(AKA MOSTLY  FAT) INSTEAD OF CARBOHYDRATES THAT YOU WON'T GET FAT.  IF YOU DON' EXERCISE AND EAT A LOT YOU'LL GAIN WEIGHT.  THE ONLY THING LOW IN CALORIES ARE VEGETABLES.   DESSERTS ARE INCREDIBLY HIGH IN CALORIES AS IS BREAD,CHIPS AND CRACKERS.  MAINLY THEY ARE WAISTED (WASTED) CALORIES SINCE THEY ARE GENERALLY LOW IN NUTRITIONAL VALUE.
                               On LOSEIT.COM, they calculate  calories consumed and then burned.  They determine if you are under or over your daily calorie limit factoring in exercise.  They don't evaluate your diet for healthiness just calories.  The number of recommended daily calories is determined by your height and amount of weight you want to lose.  They determine the daily calorie intake and amount of time it will take to lose the desired weight in a sensible manor.

 IT WORKS IF YOU WORK IT.  SO WORK IT.  YOU'RE WORTH IT!

                               I was supposed to eat 1500 calories a day(or more if I exercised) to lose 40 pounds in a year.  Somehow since I moved to my winter house and am using another computer, I can't record my daily calories and exercise.  BUT BOTTOM LINE IS YOU JUST DO IT.  SO IT'S JUSTDOIT.COM REALLY.

Up Early

                        Rise and shine and give God your glory glory
                        On the second day of the New Year

                         Shout hallelujah, hallelujah,hallelujah!
                          It's a new day.  Hallelujah!

                          It's gray today in sunny Florida.
                          The cold snap arrives tomorrow.

                           Then it will be Hickory nuts roasting on an open fire
                           And Jack Frost snipping at your nose.

                            So it's beginnin' to look a lot like Christmas,
                             But it's a week late.maybe Little Christmas on January 6th.

                             I'm leaving my decorations up until then or maybe until Valentine's Day!
                              HAPPY NEW DAY AND YEAR

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