purple room vents: COMETS AND JUPITER

It's been a great couple of days. We have been bbqing, swimming and sky gazing.

Monte took me out to the paper mill dam swimming hole. Not sure where it got its name from. Its a beautiful spot! Calm, clear water and the sockeye were jumping all over the place. The eagles are gathering to start eating the returning fish. I sat on a bench and watched the activities. There weren't too many people there and the sun was warm and the pea vine beautiful....it was truly wonderful.

The next day it was 30 out. We went back out there but there were so many people it would have not been fun. Waaaay too many people. So we backtracked to a park that is along the way. No bathrooms there but a wee patch of sandy beach and not a soul to be found. We had taken Wrangler this time and he had a ball. ALL BY OURSELVES!!!!! Loved it!

I read in one of my news feeds that there was a new, just discovered in March, comet in the sky. We happen to live in the perfect place for sky watching. So last night we drove for ten minutes out to Cameron....a long straight stretch out on the dirt road to Bamfield. Not a light within a mile. And we found the comet!!!!! Soooo exciting.

Monte, who is quite the photographer, set up a toolpod..I mean a tripod, and set his DSLR, with a 400 zoom lens up, and got a great shot...which he has put on instagram...under Sea Glass if you wish to see it. It was sooo exciting. BUT...

Even more incredible was this. Behind where we were looking was a very bright star. I always presume those really bright ones are Venus. Not this time! Monte took a pic of it and it was Jupiter!!!!!!! complete with its moons!!!! I was blown away! Way more exciting than the comet! There is just something magical being out in the pitch black, sky watching. We are going back tonight. I am going to take that loser camera I haven't used since Hawaii. It has crazy ass zoom so we shall see.

Anywhooo its been a fun couple of days. This morning I got up super early and got the garbage and recycling out then went to the lab and got all that done. We will prolly go out to a swimming hole again today. I shall report back. Stay safe and healthy. TTYL

ARYN: Well here we go. The book is divided into five sections with steps in each section. The first section is to do with general health. It gets more detailed as you go. He says that studies (he uses a LOT of studies) show that doing several steps at a time is better. They support each other and you may be more successful in your endeavour. So, with as little explaining as I can get away with here are the first ones.

1. Create a supportive surrounding. eg: Keep your pantry full of healthy choices. Keep your water bottle close at hand. Schedule your exercise regime as if it were an appointment. Surround yourself with healthy people so your lifestyle seems normal. And anything else that will help and support.
2. Make more than one good choice at a time. Which I already talked about up there.
3.Enjoy your morning coffee. He goes into lots of studies etc...about how that morning coffee is super good for you.
4. Sit less. He goes into excruciating detail about how sitting is BAD for you. If you have to sit, at least once an hour get up and do jumping jacks or pushups or something for five minutes. And don't even think that because you do hours of appointed exercise every day that that combats the damage of sitting during the rest of that day. (shovel list)
5. Get enough sleep. I don't need to go into this one too much. All the obvious stuff that he gets into in detail more later. In the meantime he went on about what bad sleep does to you. It was interesting.

So thats it til next Wednesday. Let me know how you do. I have the feeling you are already pretty up on a lot of this. Me? Not so much. Sigh.