Cate's Diary

Just saying hi Cate as I ran out of time this morning . Yes we keep saying increase the exercise . I hopefully will now routine is back for autumn. Time is a major constraint though . But no excuses
 
Well: spring is on it way and you're longer dizzy (I think?!) so an excellent time to start building up your exercise time.
 
Back to where I left off this morning :D
Marsia said:
That's just my process though - yours is probably going to look different because you are more on a low fat diet.
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I think that may be part of the problem. I am going to have some more healthy fat, like avocadoes, which I have run out of & am craving & also I need to drink more water.
Hi, Petal! I know that I need to both increase the exercise, but at the same time I need to add some more protein & healthy fat to fill me up.
LaMaria said:
Well: spring is on it way and you're longer dizzy (I think?!) so an excellent time to start building up your exercise time.
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I know, LaMa. Spring is on its way & I will up my exercise. I am still dizzy, however. Not as bad as before, but I'm very short of breath & get dizzy easily. I need to email back & say what I was doing before the pill & what I am doping now & how I feel, even after 5 days on only 1/2 a pill. I'll do that tomorrow. My BP was 93/69 last night. I have been doing next to nothing & am getting seriously p'd off.
I went to go for a walk & it snowed. Then I tried again & it rained. Now it's just cold!
#alligatorob
I have, on the other hand, done a list for alligatorob :D Mammals to follow & then reptiles.
The list of birds came from here- https://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=3049
& my list hopefully will be attached....I'm having lots of trouble attaching my file for some reason, so I'm afraid I'll have to copy & paste. :eek:
Family Anatidae
Swans, geese and ducks
  • Australian Wood Duck Chenonetta jubata
  • Black swan Cygnus atratus
Family Accipitridae
Osprey, hawks, eagles and harriers
Family Rallidae
Crakes, coots, rails and gallinules
Family Charadriidae
Plovers, dotterels and lapwings
Family Columbidae
Pigeons and doves
Family Cacatuidae
Cockatoos, corellas and cockatiel
Family Psittacidae
Parrots, including lorikeets and rosellas
Family Cuculidae
Cuckoos
  • Pallid cuckoo Cacomantis pallidus
  • Fan-tailed cuckoo Cacomantis flabelliformis
Family Strigidae
True owls
Family Tytonidae
Barn (or Masked) Owls
Family Hirundinidae
Swallows and martins
  • Welcome swallow Hirundo neoxena
Family Campephagidae
Cuckoo-shrikes
Family Petroicidae
Australian robins
Family Pachycephalidae
Whistlers and shrike-thrushes
Flycatchers and Fantails
Family Maluridae
Fairy-wrens and emu-wrens
Family Acanthizidae
Scrubwrens and thornbills
Family Meliphagidae
Honeyeaters and chats
Family Pardalotidae
Pardalotes
Family Zosteropidae
White-eyes
Family Artamidae
Woodswallows
Family Cracticidae
Butcherbirds and currawongs
  • Australian magpie Gymnorhina tibicen
    Black currawong Strepera fuliginosa *
Family Corvidae
Ravens and crows
  • Forest raven Corvus tasmanicus
Introduced Species
  • Laughing kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae
  • Skylark Alauda arvensis
  • Blackbird Turdus merula


  • European goldfinch Carduelis carduelis
  • House sparrow Passer domesticus
  • Common starling Sturnus vulgaris
Rarely-sighted Species

  • Topknot pigeon Lopholaimus antarcticus
 
What an awesome list! Bird names and the description of their calls are hilarious to me anyway so it´s a fun rabbit hole to go down. I think I like the ground parrot best but they´re pretty much all amazing.
 
I needed to refer to our bird book constantly. It took me ages, but was fun! We have our own funny names for birds. If I say "hello, handsome" G knows which bird it is!
 
Hey Cate, thanks for the bird list, its great. It will take me a while to work down it and digest, not many of your birds are familiar to me.

Whiskey vs Whisky - my spelling was a mistake, I write Whiskey the same way you do. However my spell checker seems fine with Whisky so there must be folks who use that spelling. In the end the spelling isn't so important, its the tasting! I like Jack Daniels, but it pales along side a good Macallan, Aberlour, or Tullamore DEW, in my opinion anyway.

I like Baltimore, I lived there for a couple of years long ago (83 to 85), work took me there. I generally don't like big cities, particularly in our Northeast, but after living in Baltimore for a while I came to appreciate it.
 
Hi, Rob. I think in the US (& Ireland) it's actually spelt whiskey. I was being silly really. When I see whiskey I think it's Jack Daniels or another US whiskey. Have you ever tried Laphroaig? I used to like it, but these days if I do have a wee dram I prefer something more mellow.
My sister & BIL lived right near Johns Hopkins in a beautiful area. He was a professor & in charge of a department there. I walked a lot on my own around there & did their shopping & felt that I fitted in really well. I loved my sister's friends & got on really well with them. I still keep in touch with a couple of them. I stayed with them 3 times, once for a month (when my sister was first diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer) then for 3 months (when he was also diagnosed with cancer & needed a major op & she was very ill & on oxygen) & then again for a month after he died. If it was not for my lovely family back home I could have lived there with my sister until she died.
 
Sad story about your sister and brother in law, but good that you got to spend so much time with them, its a long ways from Tasmania to Baltimore, about as far as you can get and still be on the planet.

Yes, I know Laphroaig, probably too well. It falls into that category of a whiskey or whisky I'd have more of if it weren't for the cost. How do you spell it?

I know the area around Hopkins, it is probably the nicest part of Baltimore, some really beautiful older neighborhoods. The trees are particularly impressive, some full canopy streets. Through work I knew a few of the Chemistry faculty at Johns Hopkins (University, not hospital). The company I worked for at the time had a connection. If you are comfortable telling me his name it might ring a bell, a PM if you'd be more comfortable would work. That would be quite the coincidence!
 
Sorry your blood pressure is ticking you off - it would me as well! I wish there were full body umbrellas with batteries so they make it warm in the bubble - I would go jog up the road in the cold fog tonight if I had one! The list of wild life by where you live looks lovely - I'll have to come back and enjoy it in a day or two!
 
Hi, Rob. I only ever think of my sister & brother-in-law in a positive way & no longer feel sadness. Death really is such a part of our lives. I took so much from their experiences & attitudes to life & am so grateful that I did drop everything & go over.
Laphroaig is a whisky as it's Scottish :) I will never drink too much whisky again. Lesson learned many years ago!

Hi, Marsia. I'm going to try to play golf tomorrow & hopefully will be fine. If not, then I'll be ringing the cardio. There's no need to look at my bird list.

I had a good day today.
 
Whiskey is the devil! ;) I do enjoy one with no mixer or ice as my last drink at the end of an evening out. I haven't done that in a while though, haha.

And apologies about wanting to call it the Autumn Challenge! Lol. To be honest, I was just trying to avoid mentioning the C word.
 
Whisky is the devil indeed, Em! Dangerous stuff.
No apology was needed Em. Don't you mean the F word? Fall. :D

I'm going to golf today, even if no-one is playing. It's a bit rainy & cold, but I think I'll have a bit of a hit anyway if someone else wants to. I need to get back into it. I am so over myself!
 
Thanks, Shell. The little bit rainy & cold soon developed into a lot rainy & cold. Please send me some sunshine!
After I got off here earlier I realised it was too early to leave so I did the dishes & went & cleaned the inside of my car, which I have been meaning to do for ages & then it started bucketing down. I made a couple of calls & then decided not to go as it was raining heavily in town & no-one else seemed to be going. I'm changed into my toasty home gear & back in front of the fire. G just rang & he might not get to play either & may come home early. I think I'll try riding my bike today. I feel quite a bit better. G & I are going to play golf on Saturday in a team of 4 at his new club. I think that means I will be able to go in a cart. I might see if I can get out & have a bit of a hit before then. I need to pick up my clubs anyway. I may end up joining him there next year. Who knows?
 
That sounds like a nice compromise going in the cart, but still getting out to play. Sorry the rain keeps curtailing your plans. Hope it's good weather for you guys for Saturday!
 
I agree, no matter how you spell it whiskey is the devil, or a door that connects to him anyway. And Laphroaig whisky maybe more so than others. I really like the smoky peaty flavor, it goes down too fast. Better to drink a Kentucky bourbon, doesn't taste as good, so it lasts longer.
 
I´d be happy to give you some of our sunshine but then it might arrive in the middle of the night and that´s no good. I´ll take the rain off your hands though!
 
I am not a fan of whisky unless it's in a cake lol . Never liked the taste of it or brandy for that matter. But I'm in a minority.
Sorry about the Bp Cate . Sounds like you are doing everything right though so let's hope it sorts soon.
 
Hi, Marsia, Jack, Rob & LaMa :grouphug: & Petal (you just posted)
I turned today into such a productive & positive day. I think I felt that way at the start really. I just started pottering around doing some early-spring-cleaning, but it developed into a huge spring-clean/sort. I have lots of cupboards in our house (strict instructions to our architect- "cupboards everywhere you can fit them" ) & some of them were a nightmare, with saved packing boxes, bubble wrap, wrapping paper, stationery, ribbons....etc. Today I reorganised the lot. I need to go back & finish some of it, but that will be another day. I have a box of diaries & stuff from the last 34 years, which I boxed up in no order, in a box that has a label of who gives a crap. I buy recycled toilet paper in a buying group & it amuses me to store all this stuff in there. It's going under the snooker table, instead of taking up valuable space in my hall cupboards.
The good news of today is that I must have bent over & stood up again about 100 times & did not get dizzy even once. Not once!
Lama- I think I might have to send some rain Tru's way first :D We have sunshine now & it really does feel like Spring is in the air.
Petal- smart woman not liking whisky or brandy.
G is home from his golf day & he had a lovely time. They just played a social game of skins. On Sat. I am playing with G, his friend A & lovely older guy. A is going to share his cart with the older guy & me & I will not need to take my clubs (only my driver & my putter). It should be fun. I think I'll be right.
R, our younger son sent me a text this afternoon to say he was in the hospital with a badly cut finger, awaiting stitches & would ring me afterwards as his phone was dying. I swore but didn't panic. That's progress. When he did ring, I said that I had been spring-cleaning & had a cupboard full of bubble wrap & was driving down in G's car as it's bigger & would be down there tomorrow. He laughed & said, "So, you're going to wrap me up in bubble wrap, right?" When he started to tell me how he did it, I said "stop". He had 8 stitches in his thumb & 2 tubes of glue apparently. It was done cleaning a coffee plunger. I didn't panic. I took it in my stride. He has 8 days off work for now. He did it at home, but he is full time & has sick leave.
 
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