Betsy was scheduled to leave the house on Holmes at 1:00, but at 11:00, a tree fell across power lines at Holmes and Central so the streets were closed to traffic for a couple hours. I let her know about it so she could make arrangements with her driver. I'm assuming she was able to get out on time to catch her flight.
With this activity as a backdrop, I got a huge amount of work accomplished. I finished revising chapter 7 on the two day hike. I went through it twice and made certain to reduce the number of "the", "that", "we" and "our". It took a long time, but I spiffed up the language a bit and I'm really happy with it. Then I moved on to the hard stuff, the new material. I spent time on the new chapter on satellite schools and then wrote about 800 words for the preface. I'm delighted with the progress and tomorrow promises to be just as productive.
So the diet is going well, too. I call it the no C diet. No chips, cookies, candy, crackers, cereal. Plus, no bread. Several of my favorite things. I made low cal pancakes with grated apple and butternut squash this morning as an alternative to the daily veggie omlets. Lunch was homemade vegetable soup and dinner was a veggie chicken stir fry with rice. I'm sure Steve is starving, but it's good for both of us! The thing I'm missing most is a bowl of cereal, but I'm substituting sliced bananas in milk instead. I said I'd do it for a week, but maybe I'll do it longer. It's having an influence on my sugar-loving husband, too.
Before the storm
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