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Oh, your picture of all the buckets of peaches looks agonizingly good! I wish I lived nearby - I'd take your extra peaches and veggies and freeze big batches for us all for winter. Our peach season is over. 
Long may yours ripen...
That's so sweet that you are building your dog ramps. So glad she's recovering well.
Long may yours ripen...That's so sweet that you are building your dog ramps. So glad she's recovering well.
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Today was a good day, ate well, exercised and feel good tonight.
Yes, but at the rate I have been drinking it is enough for many upcoming winters, LOL. Maybe I'll have a few more nightcaps now.
Come on over, you are welcome any time!
Amazing what we do for our pets... I think she will recover but its a long slow process. Part of the problem now is she is getting her sprit back and really wants to run and play like before. Still a few weeks before that's safe, but we are letting her do more slowly. This is new to me, I never had a dog get an injury like this.
I don't make liquor at all, but I'm pretty sure anything and everything is used to produce alcohol somewhere in Europe. Afaik very little private/illegal Schnaps is produced in Austria: most people who want to get creative with liquor use storebought vodka and just flavor it. A classic example uses unripe walnuts, picked when the shells are still soft enough to slice through with a knife.
The German word for corn is Mais but I was still confused the first time I heard someone use maize in English. Korn usually means kernel but it's also an old-fashioned generic word for many species of grain. It's also the word used for Schnaps (liquor) produced from grain (normally wheat, rye, or barley). Maische on the other hand means mash, in the sense of the mix of shredded grain and water used in beermaking. Confused yet?
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I was so I looked the maize/corn thing up and found that you are right, corn or korn, is the old word used by European people to describe whatever local grain they had. When the early English settlers got to North America they called the local grain "Indian corn" over time it was shortened to just corn and describes what you now call mais.The German word for corn is Mais but I was still confused the first time I heard someone use maize in English. Korn usually means kernel but it's also an old-fashioned generic word for many species of grain. It's also the word used for Schnaps (liquor) produced from grain (normally wheat, rye, or barley). Maische on the other hand means mash, in the sense of the mix of shredded grain and water used in beermaking. Confused yet?
The term maize comes from the Spanish word maiz, which came from the word the native peoples on Hispaniola used to describe what we in the US now call corn. Presumably Columbus' people took the word back to Spain along with some of the kernels.
Words are interesting. Did you know that corn, maize, mais or whatever you call it is the US' number one crop? We grow lots of it.
The Etymology of the Word 'Corn'
https://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/ingredients/article/the-etymology-of-the-word-corn
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Today was a good day, ate well, exercised and I feel good tonight. Got in 3 hours at the gym today, not bad but most of my Thursdays are a bit longer.
I am sure it has helped with my bones and strength, but it hasn't prevented some set backs. I suppose the setbacks are probably less with the exercising than without, but sometimes it doesn't feel that way. It probably has helped my metabolism, but again it doesn't feel like it...
Thanks Cate, it was a good thing. Now I need to do the same tomorrow.Well done on distracting yourself & not binging. One day at a time as you say
Thanks, to be clear I don't workout as vigorously as most people at the gym, I go for endurance rather than extreme exercise. I count the whole time from when I start exercising to when I stop, including warm ups, stretching, etc. So its probably not so much as it sounds.
I am sure it has helped with my bones and strength, but it hasn't prevented some set backs. I suppose the setbacks are probably less with the exercising than without, but sometimes it doesn't feel that way. It probably has helped my metabolism, but again it doesn't feel like it...
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I think if you suddenly stopped the gym sessions, you would notice the difference bigtime!
Although what you are saying there kind of reminds me of a conversation I had with my dad where he was pouring some linseed on his cereal because it's meant to be 'good for you' but we both agreed that we'll never know if it really makes a difference!
Although what you are saying there kind of reminds me of a conversation I had with my dad where he was pouring some linseed on his cereal because it's meant to be 'good for you' but we both agreed that we'll never know if it really makes a difference!
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Another good day, ate well (more or less), exercised and I feel good tonight. Ate a peach and a couple of our wild plums, also tried to eat some of the okra from the garden, but only a couple of the pods were edible, waited too long to pick them. Also had a homemade peach brandy nightcap.
A bit less than 2 hours in the gym, but I was tired by the end. Got in 10 gym hours this week, less than most weeks, but Monday was a holiday. No gym plans for the weekend, just catching up on things.
Spent a lot of time today getting the latest batch of peach mash ready to distill, will do my first run in morning. Not sure what I will do with the peaches that keep on coming... maybe wine? This weekend is the big peach day celebration here, its the only real festival we have https://www.boxelderchamber.com/peach-days/ I don't usually go, just try to avoid the traffic congestion.
A bit less than 2 hours in the gym, but I was tired by the end. Got in 10 gym hours this week, less than most weeks, but Monday was a holiday. No gym plans for the weekend, just catching up on things.
Spent a lot of time today getting the latest batch of peach mash ready to distill, will do my first run in morning. Not sure what I will do with the peaches that keep on coming... maybe wine? This weekend is the big peach day celebration here, its the only real festival we have https://www.boxelderchamber.com/peach-days/ I don't usually go, just try to avoid the traffic congestion.
Thanks Marsia, I think the stretching is one of the most important things we can do. I do lots of it.
Thanks Emily, and you are probably right. Getting to any level of fitness takes time, I don't really notice a lot of difference but am sure it's there.
Had to laugh at that, I think a lot of us take supplements and eat "health" food things because we think it's good for us. Rarely do we really know if it is. Reminds me of an old Smothers Brothers song about a girl who managed to get out of the grimy city into the clean countryside, where she "broke out in health and died". Could not find it on youtube.
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...Just wondering Rob --regarding the issue of losing strength--has a professional gone over your gym routine and diet to be sure there isn't anything simple there that could be contributing? I may absolutely be way off as I am very ignorant about strength training but just wondered if it was something that was considered since you probably spend way more time at the gym than anyone I know...
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Today was a good day, ate fairly well and feel good tonight. Course the peach brandy could have something to do with that. Spent the day distilling, it takes a lot of attention. You have to watch the still the whole time, not safe to leave it. Got the first run done and am ready for the second first thing in the morning. Then I'll be done with moonshining for a while. May still make some wine, I saw a youtube video suggesting blending fruit wine with brandy, may try that. By the time I am finished I will probably have made over 20 liters of brandy, and the peach crop is just getting started probably 75% to go...
Thanks Liza, it feels good, hope it lasts. I am trying.
Good point and I will raise it with the doctor. I would sure like to think its just something simple. However the weakness is very specific, right side only and only overhead things. I can do bicep curls, back rows, and triceps as well as ever, even getting stronger. But overhead and pushes are a problem. Right side only, left is fine... The doctor says that my strength even in those directions is good, but the fact that it's gone done a lot is a concern.
Thanks Cate, I love the Smothers Brothers, my parents got all their albums and got me hooked.
I'll drink to that, probably the only one in Utah drinking peach brandy moonshine...Happy Peach Day Rob!
Yes that's a good point about the strength loss not being overall...just thought I'd throw it out there...but probably nothing so simple like that...
Glad you had another good day and are enjoying your peach brandy!
With the rest of your peaches are you able to freeze them or do you just share them out with neighbors? I still can't believe the abundance you have!
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