AWARENESS

Today I was painfully reminded how little we as Americans appreciate our abundance.

My husband and I traditionally go out to breakfast each Saturday morning. Although our favorite haunt has closed in response to the current recession (Palominas Trading Post, we miss you!), the alternate bistro (and calling the Lone Star Cafe 'bistro' just cracks me up) breakfast crowd has swelled to not-quite-but-almost seam-splitting size.

And we sit shoveling in eggs, bacon, toast, hash browns, washed down by coffee and more coffee (my caffeine source is Diet Coke), wiping our greasy mouths and hands with paper napkins.

I don't mean that we all need to go back to campfires and eating raw meat - just sometimes it simply hits me so forcibly that we have so much, and so much of the world has so little.


Okay, back to stats:
Exercise was slightly better - I cleaned out the hay shed, which necessitated moving the last bale out, the wooden pallets and the cover boards that are necessary to get the bales onto the pallets - then shoveling, pushing and sweeping out the reside of hay, dust, spider webs and mouse guano out, and then shoveling and pushing it either further out so I didn't have a huge pile in front of the hay shed.

Also walked horses another quarter-mile tonight under protest (the horses, not mine!)

Same breakfast as yesterday:
2 slice bacon -- 92
French Toast -- 298
Chicken Salad -- 500 (? - I mean, it tastes that good, so....)
Popcorn -- 100
1/4 of Ben & Jerry's ice cream -- 250 (and yes, I did eat just a quarter of a small container - it took a lot of will-power, but I did it!)

TOTAL ---- 1, 240