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Thursday, March 12, 2015

Home Sweet Home



“If you feed them, they will come” – Me

Most of the blogs I follow lately, are about health. People log in how much exercise they do and for how long. Some of them read my blog and they might find it suspicious that I don’t post about me exercising and think I am forgetting it.

This is not the case, I am exercising however I’m not keeping track for now.
In the good old days, when life expectancy was 53 and a half, life was tough but people were eating healthy and exercising a lot. 

An healthy adult could eat 100,000 calories a day consisting mostly from beef or pig’s fat and they would disregard the lean meat and give it to the dogs. Fruit and vegetables were available for a very short time but nobody cared, as long as there was bacon on the table they were happy. To make sure they had enough fat in their diet, they would put butter on the bacon. The vegetarians were the one who would eat a small potato with the fatty meat.

They exercised a lot: running all over the place after some strayed calves, jumping on the back of a horse that didn’t want to be jumped on, sitting-up on the balcony rocking a chair, swimming in manure…

By now you might be wondering why are we getting a history lecture from the not-to-be-published-ever Richard’s history book?

Simple, my exercises are related to our current living arrangement and are more about what we need to do than what I want to do. Did you make the link with the history lecture? Those people were also living a difficult life and were doing everything they could just to keep breathing. I know I could have been more direct without going back hundreds of years but what would be the fun of that?

Our home in Canada is a summer home. Because the water pipes are not deep enough, there is no running water in winter. There is not even a ploughed road. We park at the front entrance of the campground where there are washrooms/showers opened year round.

A round trip to the entrance is about a quarter mile walk. Everything we need we have to carry in and carry out including water, food and their by-product; we are setup with water in jerry cans and dry toilet (for the lady). If I want a regular toilet, it’s a quarter mile walk. I do this several times every day because I also go there to brush my teeth.

Some people might think it’s a hardship (that explains why we are alone) but I love it. I also bring bags of corn with us. It’s over 50 pounds per bag but corn is so good… for our deer.

I also walk a lot on the park just for the exercise. The streets are reduced to snowmobile trail which are packed snow. I estimate I walk about 6 to 8,000 steps a day. It might not be 10,000 steps but it’s a good workout. If you have never walked in the snow (I am not pointing out anyone here Natalie:) ); it’s like walking on the beach, your feet do dig in the snow but that’s where the comparison ends, because it’s cold, slippery, you don’t have the open sea to look at and there are no women in bikini (ha ha ha couldn’t help myself with this sexist remark, but believe me I’ll pay the price, when my wife reads this she is going to give me “the look”, I might have to sleep with the deer. See the extent of my commitment to this blog)

Here some pictures of the place:

The home (shoveling might be required)

 View from the sofa

 The road to heaven (great place to walk)

 Early morning of weight training

20 comments:

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    1. Thanks Natalie for your comment I think! :))

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    2. Hmm, I did it on my iPad and obviously it didn't work out. It was a shining sun and a smiley face.

      I sometimes wish I had a life where I used my body usefully instead of "exercising". But then I look at your snow and think "pretty, but nah!"

      Kangaroos have heads quite similar to deer. Just the body is all weird and different. My grandmother used to have a pet one. Vicious little bastard.

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  2. Oh yeah, that's definitely a workout! Even shivering in the Canadian cold burns calories :)

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    1. Should I add shivering as part of my workout? How do you measure that? I shivered for 30 minutes, tomorrow I try to shiver for 35 minutes LOL

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  3. You know what is a GREAT workout? Shoveling! Move to Moncton! There will be A LOT OF SNOW to shovel! SO MUCH SNOW! It's GREAAAAT!

    - WWE

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    1. I need to workout more, I don't need to kill myself... if you need a shovel, I can Purolator one to you; in Florida, we won't need it :)

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  4. There's no better workout than just working hard each day. I've been going through the same thing with my bathroom remodel, constantly carrying things up and down the stairs.

    Somehow I missed your last post; congrats on passing the 200 milestone!

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    1. Renovation it's hard work... last summer I worked with friends doing little building job, they were older but man they were in better shape. It took me days to stop feeling the pain!

      Thanks FD, yes one milestone eating my dust, now time for the next one.

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  5. Functional fitness is the new fangled way to describe what you're doing. It's pretty much what the pioneers did - and why no such thing as planned exercise was necessary! Bless your heart though, I hope you guys get to go back to Florida soon.

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    1. We are like those little chameleon lizard, we adapt with the environment :) You have to made the most with what you have. "Functional fitness" never heard that term before, I'll add it up to my library :)

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  6. That is a gorgeous area! I live in Wisconsin, so we have plenty of open space, deer, etc. There are lots of parks like the one you're describing. Ice fishing and snowshoeing are huge here too. So glad that all of that can be your exercise. So awesome!

    Sarah
    www.thinfluenced.com

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    1. We are really blessed. I just love animals, in the fall I was feeding 10 cats, a bunch of turkeys, deer and an occasional fox. My daughter call me the Disney princess LOL

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  7. Wow, I am impressed. This is sure a work-out. You must be anxious to go back to Florida ?

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    1. It's strange but no, I love our place in nature. But I know once we get to Florida, I will like to be there too. I guest I just like to be. Hope you still going to walk those dogs!

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  8. "By now you might be wondering why are we getting a history lecture from the not-to-be-published-ever Richard’s history book?"

    You are a funny, funny writer. Thanks for the great laughs.

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    1. And don't forget... good looking ha ha ha

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    2. Hahaha, you are very good at blogging. Great stuff.

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    3. At my age, I have to be good at something LOL

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