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Monday February 19, 2024.

I occasionally grow grass for the cats.

I do this in our apartment’s kitchen window where it is easy to forget if a post-it note is not used.

First, let the seeds soak for a day or two in water.

Next, toss them into a Taco Bell cup filled with dirt.

Soon they’ll be eating fresh grass and then vomiting it onto the floor.

It’s supposed to be good for them, I hear, but we have one cat who really likes to chow down on the stuff.

She over does it.

I also sent a postcard to Hong Kong on this day.

My partner Lauri was kind enough to drop it into the mailbox.

Tuesday February 20th, 2024

I sent a postcard to Croatia with a Guacamole recipe.

In this postcard I discussed that I was excited to have the car this weekend and would be going camping.

I moved the cat grass seeds to the Taco Bell cup and decided it was time to put the cactus in the window back into an upright position.

I initially tried to use chopsticks, but resorted to silicon tongs.

The tongs got an ouchie.

(I removed this with tweezers)

Wednesday February 21, 2024

I keep a spreadsheet with my adventure ideas, but this spreadsheet also serves other purposes such as:

• Tracking new adventure ideas
• Keeping notes for this blog
• Building habits

On that last one I have been tracking how many achievements I complete every day on DuoLingo.

My goal is to get the badge every month, which I have succeeded at every month since beginning this daily adventure project.

On this day I added a new item, though.

I am now doing daily push-ups.

Today I logged five.

I am writing this post fifteen days after initiating this new habit.

I have continued with this small change and I am currently able to complete fifteen pushups.

My goal is to make more tiny changes like this and live healthier.

This is a small change and I can continue with it.

I know that I will plateau at some point and that this is okay.

I will add more exercises, but I am making small and sustainable changes.

When should I add a new exercise?

How about when I can do 75 push-ups?

Yes, when I can do 75 push-ups it will be time to add another exercise to my daily routine.

Thursday the 22nd of February is a potato day.

🥔

Friday, February 23, 2024

I plan to go camping this weekend and in my postcard to Germany I discussed my excitement for this.

I have too many stickers.

Like my unsent postcards I have been purchasing more than I have been using and the collection is now too large.

I plan to try focusing on using up one or two sticker collections at a time so that these folders will begin to empty out.

I received two postcards this day, one from Czechia about a family owned restaurant that serves the fish that the family catches.

The other postcard was a photograph from Italy. The envelope that this photograph was shipped in was a reused piece of paper that has something to do with stamp collecting.

How appropriate. Recycling paper about stamps to send mail.

I also received a refund from a medical company that I’ve been fighting for some time who incorrectly billed me.

Twice.

Tomorrow, Saturday, I have election clerk training and then I plan to spend the night at Abilene State Park.

I wait to look into the parks that I’ll be visiting until the last minute so that there are surprises and on this day I discovered that West Texas has a state park that is a sand dune!

I have do go there!

I should take pictures…

I need to find the tripod.

Penny says “Hi.”