Farm Volunteer

Farm volunteer day -- flower picking and arranging to take to the food bank. I stepped in a biting ant mound and had a bit of a bugger with them, but otherwise it was nice. 

This guy followed me all morning.

Look at the cucumber leaves in my garden yesterday. The dew collected perfectly -- looks like artwork.

I got some worrisome news yesterday. More labs back and they are leaning toward something is wrong. I have to wait a few more weeks before more testing. Geez. I'd still be surprised, but every step is not good news. Fingers crossed. The wait isn't easy and next steps won't be definitive, just next steps. It's going to be a bit before I know what's what.

My DIL ended up being flexed off today so we're only babysitting a couple of hours while she runs some errands. That gave me back my morning. 

I'm changing up a few things with my workout and nutrition. Probably not the best timing since I just started the creatine powder -- changing more than one thing means you don't know what is working, but I didn't want to wait a couple of months for full effects of creatine.

Deep diving into menopause and such -- I need to focus more on protein, especially since I eat a lot of plant based protein. I started a protein snack post workout to see if that helps with recovery. Lifting is rotating back into the schedule -- 2 days. My back seems okay and it's time to get back to it. Feels good so far -- I'm taking it slowly. Finally, I want to add interval running into the schedule -- run hard for 4 minutes, recover, repeat. 

The motivation is better recovery, easier sleep, more energy. Doing my same thing isn't working. Time for a change up.

Hope you have a good Friday. Later gators.