This morning I had an appointment early for another heart CT. I did a not so sweaty workout when I got home. I did Fit Tower Advanced Legs, Glutes, and Core, 50 minutes, heart rate 91/140, 80 calories,355 steps, followed by To the Mat Legs and Glutes Timesaver All Ball, 21 minutes, 28 calories, heart rate 88/108, 129 steps. I finished with Lindsey Samper Safe Stretches, 19 minutes, 20 calories, 65 steps. Total time 90 minutes, 128 calories, 549 steps. Fit bit does not do well with the effort put into these types of workouts. I got over 11,000 steps yesterday. Today though I was pretty low. I will be going back tomorrow to get the results and talk to the pulmonologist. One thing about it, they do not allow anyone other than patients into the Heart Hospital so this time parking was easy. Only a few people around. They do the temp check, send you to a desk to tell them what you are there for, they send you through the sanitizer which automatically shoots out a baseball size of foaming hand sanitizer so I was nice and wet. Then I went to another desk to check in and they sent me upstairs to another desk. Then I was in a waiting area with three people spaced around a large area. Masks required of course. I wonder if it will be that calm tomorrow in the afternoon.
Not a lot of fireworks here. I did hear a couple pop off a couple of days before. But, the main event was a show put on by the lake as usual. Gertie whimpered a little. We had the television on so I would have thought she wouldn't pay that much attention. My vets office made suggestions on their facebook page to find the quietest spot in the home make the dog comfortable and turn on soft music or a television to distract from the sounds.
Valerie, I remember that you don't care for fireworks. We haven't had a lot here other than the 4th of July display that was set off by the lake. I miss the days when our family sat outside together and oohed and awed with the grandchildren when they were small. They would have a display at a nearby church and we always got a great view from our yard. We don't do that anymore and our neighborhood is mainly older adults so not much partying here either. I understand, as we would go on vacation and I always felt so exhausted by the time I got home I felt like I needed to rest up from the vacation. When we got our fifth wheel we took our time and travelled and sometimes would park somewhere and just relax for a couple of days. No rushing. I wonder why the cows were dead. It was nice they let you know. Meeting up with a grizzly would not be nice. Okay, I see your post down further on the cows.
I will have to look around and see if I can find where I got the method for tempeh. I bought Organic soybeans dried from Amazon. I wish I could remember, it has been around 8 years. I made quite a bit and had it in sheets that I set inside a cabinet with a droplight on to help the process along. It kept it the right temperature. I used to be able to buy it at a health store here in Oklahoma City called Akins Health Foods. When we moved away there was no where to get it so I made it. It gets sort of a white looking coating over it when processing. Like fermenting things. I used it for a chili recipe that I think I got from P90X2 cookbook or maybe it was Tony Horton's book that had recipes in it. Let me see if I can find anything. Maybe google how to do it. I was into a fermenting thing I guess. No family was up there and my husband worked long hours so I made tempeh, kombucha, sauerkraut which I made different varieties of with carrots and garlic etc. Smelled kind of ugly in the dining room LOL. You have to let air get through to a lot of that stuff.
Carolyn, that is nice that one of your daughter's friends joined your family zoom. When we did our family zoom I got to meet my granddaughter's boyfriend for the first time. He has been to our house once since then with the family. I thought that I would lighten up this week. My neck is feeling even better today. The workouts I chose did not require a lot of putting body weight on my shoulders which stresses my neck and I got to work the lower half and get stretching in. I forget how brutal some of Cathes barre type work and stuff can be. Funny, things that I usually would have done with ankle weights were hard today.
Debbie, I hope the dogs are better. Any idea why they are both sick? Sick dogs are so hard to know what you can do to help. One would keep me up at night, two would be rough. I had that happen to me once with two dogs and I was up and down all night and cleaning up messes. Not a pleasant memory. So relieved when they were better.
Judy, nice work on the peloton rides this weekend between working.
Cathy, at least your neighbors usually quiet down earlier. You have a couple of good workout rotations planned. It is sad that every time we feel ill we have to worry that it might be covid. Maybe your sister had a sinus infection or something. It seems like there are a lot of variances in peoples covid symptoms. I hope your sister comes out negative. That is such a long time to get results. That would be well into having the virus. Did your sister run a fever?
Lori, nice that you found a place to live and now have a plan for you and Gigi. I am sure getting things together is a nonstop stressful situation. Do you have a move in day set up? Nice that you are still getting out on a walk with Gigi every day.
I hope they are better soon. We had more fireworks than usual here too. 
