coyoterun

working on my mustang, we took it to the paint shop this week and should have it back in a couple.  Then all I have to do is get the trim on it and I’ll be stylin down the road.  I’ll be posting pictures just as soon as it is done.  You all won’t know me, I’ve colored my hair, it’s a soft brown, and I cut it short.  I’ve promised Josh I’ll give him a few rides and maybe even let him try driving my car, practice for his you know.              He has grown so much this summer, he’s still working like crazy on his baseball, he wants to make the school 7-8th  grade ball team so bad.  I think he should have no problem, he can really hit the ball and he’s not a bad pitcher, and he is tuned up at the infield positions, so he is sharp.  I know I’m his Granny, but he really is pretty good.  He’s been running every morning and has talked his Papa out of the treadmill we never use, so he can run when the weather is bad.    I’m still struggling with getting motivated and exercising, I’m doing pretty well not eating too much, having a garden with fresh veggies has been a help.  But I’m still bouncing up and down from 187 to 193, seems like I’ve lost those 5-6 pounds 20 times!  I’m not giving up, and I am going to do more about getting up off my butt and moving!  I have to lose and keep some of this weight off.   

adds up to weigh gain!! Imagine that!  I still haven’t learned not to eat when I’m upset or mad.  I just had my 60th birthday, don’t you think I would have learned by now?  Guess not,  My problems are not big ones, they are pretty minor in fact.  I just need to learn how to cope with this stuff without running to the kitchen and grabbing the comfort food.  Oh well, back to the drawing board and the best I can say is thank goodness it is time for the garden to be coming on and I have lots of fresh , healthy stuff to eat.  You know I did so well while we were away from home, that is when I really thought I might gain, little did I know.  RATS!!

unfortunately the team lost their last game.  Placing 2nd in region 4 isn’t too shabby though.  The kids played hard and had fun and after all that is why they are supposed to be playing ball.  Josh only has 4 weeks until school starts and he won’t be resting, he’ll be keeping in shape for school ball.  I told you all that Silo is a baseball school!  I was so glad to get back home and my puppies really read me the riot act about being gone.  I missed you all and have been checking up on every one.  Now it’s back to work and getting my but in gear, got to get in that exercise!  

Well, the boys had a bad start to the tournament, lost their first game.  One of the players cut his foot(5 stitches) and was hobbled, and one of the kids lost his temper and threw his helmet and got ejected from the game.  A misunderstanding of a rule about designated hitter, left us with only 8 kids playing and it’s hard to win one man short.  Josh did get a hit in the game and started a rally, then  right after that was when the kid got thrown out and every thing when downhill.  But, they played last night and won that game, the kid with the cut foot played 1st (not much moving)  and we tuned up their bats and the run ruled the other team in the 4th inning.  Josh got 3 doubles and 1 ground out and 4 rbi’s and scored 2 and made one really good out in the field.  So he had a really good night!  I bought him a T-shirt he wanted really bad a while back, it has new bat $390, new glove $150, new cleats $95–seeing you move out of my way—PRICELESS,  on the back.  I told him that was a pretty big brag and he couldn’t wear it until he did something to earn it.  Well, he wore it to dinner last night!  You should have seen his eyes light up when we told him to get it out.  HA!  Have another tough game tonight at 6 and if we win we turn around and play at 8.  It has been hot, and hotter, we have one of those pop up canopies and it has been wonderful.  Any shade helps.  We came home to check on everything last night and are going back up this afternoon.  Hope we will be staying the night and playing tomorrow,  we’ll see.  I’m afraid the boys don’t have much of a chance to win the whole thing—one of the teams there is really tough, looks like all the kids are older and we know they have played 70+ games this year, and they have stayed in the winners bracket so the have the advantage there–haven’t had to use as many of their pitchers.  I hope the team gets the chance to play them anyway.    I’ve done pretty good not pigging out while we’ve been away from home, I think I’ve sweated off an extra pound or two!  Hope everyone had a great 4th and you can stay cool. 

I have to brag on my grandson and his baseball team—an undefeated season and on to Regionals!  We are so proud of them and are looking forward to some great baseball next week.  We’ll be in Shawnee, OK, for about 4 days, thank goodness for a wonderful neighbor that is willing to come and take care of all my dogs and the horses.  

If ( a GREAT BIG if) they make it through regionals-it’s on to state at Weatherford, OK the very next week.   So they could be playing ball into the third week of July.  I’m praying for some sort of freak cool front so we won’t melt down.

      This pic is of the team with their tournament bracket–Josh is last on the right,standing.

The team went the whole year without losing one game, I hope they can continue the trend.  Even with a broken wrist, Josh still had the best on base % of all the boys, now that he is all healed up and back in shape it will be fun to see what he can do!  Can you tell that I’m a doting Granny? 

Today is Tony’s birthday–Rachel and Josh will be coming up and we are going to have supper together, I’ll be celebrating my birthday next week in Shawnee, think I’ll tell the team I want a win for a present!   Going to stir up a cake for T—he wants one of those Mandarin Orange Cakes–tons of calories and guess what I love it–I guess I’ll just have to be disciplined and eat only a small portion.  (fingers crossed) 

I hope you all have a great, fun, safe 4th of July.  God Bless America,

GO XTREME!!! 

I just can’t seem to lose enough weight to be comfortable in even a pair of knee length shorts.  Fat knees are so unattractive.  Thank goodness capris are still in style.   I did have to do a weigh in at the Doctors office the other day and I had lost 2 lb that I hadn’t realized were gone.  That made me happy, and I hadn’t put on any more weight since last year so that was a good thing. 

We’ve been  busy  dealing with one thing and another around here, mostly crisis that are hitting my daughter.  Hopefully things are settling down some. 

My grandson’s baseball team is starting the city tournament the end of this week–hopefully they will get to go to regional, and then (fingers crossed) on to state.  His wrist is completely healed and giving him no problems, he’s back to batting and pitching at his earlier level.  We are looking forward to seeing him play more now that his arm isn’t bothering him. 

Work on the Mustang is moving forward, I can drive it now, after a new muffler and a brake job, but the seat needs some work to be comfortable.  Tony is working on it most mornings and it is coming along pretty well.  I think he’ll have it ready for me in a month or so. 

Hope you all have a good week and things go your way.  Keep cool. 

motivation and caring,these are the things that I lack in my efforts to lose weight.  I talk a good story, I get on the train, but I just don’t carry through with all my plans.  I just got through reading some really great blogs about getting fired up, working hard and I thought yes!that is what I need to do.  Then I walked through my kitchen and mindlessly grabbed a cookie and started munching as I walked into the computer room to sit down and read more.  I didn’t even think about what I was doing, what I was putting in my mouth, I wasn’t hungry—I was just chewing!  So I got up threw what was left in the trash and here I am.  Now I just don’t understand, I don’t want to be this heavy, I know that with my family history is in not good for me to carry all this extra weight, it’s hard on my knees, I can’t do the things I want to do, (shortness of breath, no stamina)  and I hate the way I look.  I don’t even enjoy shopping for clothes, because I know I look like a sack of potatoes.  Ok I know all this, so why aren’t I willing to get up and do something about it?  Why do I use the things that are happening that are stressful in  my life, as an excuse?  I was doing pretty well, lost 10  pounds, then the wheels fell off and I just can’t seem to get back on track.  I’m back up to 192 and mad as hell about that, but I’m still grabbing cookies with out even thinking about what I’m stuffing in my mouth!  I have a treadmill (that I hate), tapes, weights, and a really good place to walk outside, all the things I need to get all the exercise I need plus a horse that needs to be ridden in the worst way.   I need to get back on track and start doing the things I need to do, so I’m fessing up and maybe I’ll come back here and read this every morning and tell myself, pay attention, do your part, the skinny fairies are not going to sprinkle you with magic dust so you can wake up thin!  I am so mad at myself for letting this slide, I have to kick myself off dead center and realize that just NOT gaining more is NOT what needs to happen,  I need to get up and start working and get back to LOSING and that is going to require that I do some WORK. 

Hopefully next time I get on here and write I’ll have better things to tell you all.    Starting over once again, I will do better.   

easy and no cost to you, run screaming from the room!  My Internet provider sent a notice that I “needed” to upgrade my obsolete modem, easy 5 minute self install,  at no cost.   I thought I’d better do it since I was told that they were fazing out my model.  So I placed an order and waited and waited and waited —- after several lengthy calls, they finally sent me the new modem, yea! faster downloads and better service, RIGHT!   The easy 5 minuter install turned into a 2 hour ordeal on the phone producing no results, and the  company telling me that they would send out a tech to trouble shoot the problem for a $125.00 charge.  Needless to say I had choice words to say about that, and the upshot was they sent someone to fix the problem no charge.  It took the poor guy 4 hours to figure out the modem was bad, out of the box and get the satellite realigned.  But now I have my Internet service back and really I don’t see any difference in speed or anything else.  Oh well.   At least I can get on here and check in with you guys and say hello!  But watch out if you are told that you need a upgrade and they tell you that it will be easy!     

BECCA’S BABY

I am now the proud owner of my very own rustang!  I must say there is much less work to do on mine than on Josh’s, much to Tony’s relief.  After he decided to have a project car and Josh chose a classic Mustang, I gave T a really hard time.  I’ve wanted a Mustang since they first came out.  I told him I knew where I rated, I’d been trying to get him to buy me one for 40 years, and all Josh had to do was say, yeah that’s the one I want.  The friend that came up with Josh’s  found this one and called Tony to see if he was interested in it for Josh instead of doing the rebuild.  The whole point of the project was for Josh to learn how it went together and see how much work went into fixing it up.  So he wasn’t interested in the car for Josh, but he asked me if I would like to have it.  At first I was like, well you know I have a good car and I don’t need it, but he actually said, look I know you don’t need it, but would you enjoy owning it, tooling around in it, just having it because you always wanted one.   Of course I said yes, I’ve always wanted one.  So we just went ahead and bought it and he is going to make it look really nice and I’m going to drive it around to ballgames and when I got shopping, not for groceries, just fun shopping.  Isn’t that a blast?  I’ve got to decide what color to paint is and pick out the interior color, but everything else is working as far as Tony knows.  So I could be driving it by my birthday which is in July!  Sometimes my husband does things that really surprise me, but this tops them all.   I’m thinking candy apple red and cobalt blue or ,maybe red and white interior.   What do you all think?   This is just one more reason to lose some pounds, it be ashamed if I couldn’t fit under the steering wheel!   So I guess this is HAPPY 60th to me!