It's Fat Tuesday today. That means tomorrow is Ash Wednesday. I was in New Orleans on Fat Tuesday many a year ago with a fund raising team. They had prison buses on the side streets to handle the drunks and such. And there was a lot of such. It was perverse, demeaning and ... Well at midnight they started playing 'When the Saints Come Marching In' as the police, mounted patrol, sheriff's deputies. shore patrol, military police and a squad car made a line and started a slow march down the street proclaiming Mardi Gras over. Those who didn't vacate the street before they reached them were beaten silly. It still makes me smile.
In honor of Fat Tuesday we went to IHOP for free pancakes. Of course we had to buy coffee and leave a tip, but it makes one feel good about oneself to get out to eat once in awhile. A stack of three large pancakes was plenty for breakfast.
I have been contemplating the relationship between hunger and weight. If I can't get to the gym I just have to go hungry. I notice my left arm has become considerably stronger than my right due to how I carry Tun-Tun up the stairs. Hopefully I can expect the same results on my leg strength. I started strength training on my legs but have not been to the gym much with the renewed snow fall and Misao always having the car. Also one of my knees has an intermittent problem so I often take it easy.
If you haven't heard we had the opportunity to adopt recently. in our church we adopt within our church community and not one but two families offered us a child for adoption. Obviously we leave an impression upon some contrary to the one people who like to talk about others all the time would convey. Unfortunately our economic circumstance makes that impossible. We had been going to a fertility clinic also before I lost my job, now several years ago.
Just a few more days left on the poll. Sorry no pictures. I have to get over to my Mom's to download and edit the one's on my broken camera.
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