Life is good

No. Lui-gi.

PS: I just looked it up. It really has 3 syllables: Lu-i-gi. Yet the name is easier and faster to say as Kajetan.

I went on a hike today it was about 5 miles and rated difficult. It was a bilingual tour hike of a different area with the same nature advocate/preservation group I have hiked with before. I did pick up some covid and I noticed it immediately. Just feels like the first months of recovery from way back the original and superficial. Breathed hard and heavy and walked powerful and had a severe immune response/retaliation.
Learned about scat and actually people were breaking it up with stocks. Actually found a piece with bones one of the volunteers must have kept for teaching purposes.
Weird plants I don’t see normally in the area like Dr. Seuss book. If you zoom you can see birds most likely ravens circling and we were trying to figure out if theu were ravens or crows. Most be something dead nearby. Odd power construction.



I remember Reggie making some statement that “you must go hiking with a backpack and then and only then will you lose weight!”
I hit legs twice yesterday’s including several sets of leg presses. Hiking isn’t the only workout although some people were running and biking the trail.
I won a free backpack with lots of meat stuff inside as I had 3 holes and cleanup



You remember incorrectly. I have always believed (and continue to believe) that weight loss is 90% food and only 10% exercise. Unless you are exercising at absurd levels (several hours per say), you must feel hunger to lose weight. My own experience is that, if I elevate my exercise levels (as we did on this trip we’re on), I often just eat more which totally defeats the purpose. Starvation works.

That triggers a snap and you know that effect on you.
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Sitting in my tiny garden, drinking my 5th or so morning coffee and enjoy the warm spring sun together with my dogs and the birds and a fat bumble bee, lol. Life is good.

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I wish I could drink coffee.

Why can’t you drink coffee?

On the weekend, I have time for extra cuddling and fur care. Luigi enjoys this extra service very much, lol.

Now I am driving down to the bakery/cafe to get me some extra weekend service, which means a nice cake for the 4 pm afternoon coffee. Usually I do this by using my bicycle. But as I have to do project work this whole afternoon, my mind convinced me to take the car this time. Its my excuse at least, lol. On next sunday I’ll do better again.

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Some sage we came across a.k.a. cowboy cologne on a hike. It is pleasant smelling around it but actually touching it to smear the oils or scent it was like catfish stink bait. But there is a pleasant smell in some outer surrounding air .
I forgot I didn’t take the picture. This is some poison oak.


Full moon, one volunteer had an photo filter that made it look like daytime in the morning with a bright blue sky and sunlight everywhere with a full moon.
Kind of came out that way in my pic too. I don’t know what to call it. A moonrise.

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Before the next phone conference starts, I threw my dogs out into the garden to catch a few sun beams, fresh air and maybe for doing some businesses. They observe the window they guess me to be behind, pretty firmly, lol. Usually they prefer not having to stay for long in the garden. I have couch dogs.

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Listening to „Touch“ by Sleeping at Last“ let pop up this short video. It’s beautiful message made me smile brightly.

I finally found some use for peanut butter. Caught 4 mices in my garden shed (life traps) within 3 days and let them all free at the parking space of my bow club at the other side of the river Regen. There are still plenty to catch. Bought the biggest peanut butter glass but only bought two of those life traps.


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Traps are better than poison because you have dogs and cats that might eat the mice later
Also they usually come out in the open when they are dying of poison but if one crawls under and up the refrigerator or bottom of the stove and dies you will have the smell for months until you can find it.
I know

I’ve been spraying peppermint oil for the rodents. Hopefully it works.

It didn‘t work for me. Best is to make the garden shed rodent secure. End of worries. I am still waiting for the craftsman to line the ventilation slits with rodent sheet metal, though. In the meantime I catch the mice.

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Rodents keep eating the wiring in our hot tub. My other option is to kill them, but I can’t enclose the hot tub.

Look at the size of this bird turd that hit my mom’s car. It’s about 2 feet in length She thought somebody vandalized it with glue or paint.

Can you protect the cables by applying some protection around the wiring? Maybe some professional craftsman has an idea? I am pretty sure you aren‘t the first one with such a problem and there is a professional solution available.

Kill the pests. There is a repellent but it would be irritating to you. Sonic plug ins I don’t even know if they work or if they are the cause of headaches and mental distress. RF too.