Record Setting Monday

Every single time I go back and read one of my own posts, I find a mistake or an error or a misspelling. UGH! There is probably one in the sentence I am typing right now! I promise you that I review what I read before posting it, but it is hard to find your own mistakes. I try, but it happens! I hope that all six of my sweet friends that read this blog know that I do understand the difference between through and threw! I need an editor! All these words. Why don't they come out of my fingers the way they are swirling around in my head? If it drives you nuts to see errors in things that I write, feel free to send me your corrections and edits and I will fix them. 

Anyways, let's move on from grammar and charge right in to celebrating all the plants I ate on Monday! It may have been a record setting Monday, but we have no way to know because there are really no official records! It felt like a lot of plants!

I started off Monday morning with the fantastic 10 plant lawnmower breakfast I bragged about in yesterday's post.  I was swamped at work all day yesterday and only stopped long enough to grab a small bowl of oatmeal for lunch. I loaded it up with all the goodies....rolled oats, moringa powder, chia seeds, flax seed, hemp hearts, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, walnuts, coconut...a healthy dash of cinnamon and a smidge of brown sugar!  A 10 plant lunch! 

I pause this plant celebration to tell you that I only yesterday actually read the directions on the Rolled Oats container. Apparently you are supposed to cook these oats. Not this girl. I treat rolled oats exactly like instant oats. Whoops. I microwave some water for about 2 minutes until it is piping hot, pour it on the oats and let it sit for maybe a minute before I am eating. Am I eating raw oats? Does that count as extra fiber? Maybe I will try following the directions next time and see if I can tell a difference. 

I grabbed a handful of pecans for a snack between calls in the afternoon, getting my plant total to 21.  

For dinner, I thawed out the chili from the freezer that I made a few weeks ago. I threw a couple potatoes in the oven to bake for about an hour. When the timer went off, I turned the oven off and left the potatoes in the oven to keep warm while I went for a walk with Judy and the pups. We are trying to leave by 5:30 these days since it is getting dark so early. The potatoes were perfect by the time I got home.

This bean heavy chili mash up had red kidney beans, white kidney beans, kobucha squash, green chilis, edamame, garlic and obviously tomatoes. I was able to add six new plants to the list, bringing me to 27 plants in one day!  Woo Hoo! It was good eating and I was full as a bull!  

Me and Chip spent the evening hours watching Ocean's 13, with George Clooney and Brad Pitt. It was great. Then we tried to plan how we would operate a bank heist and decided we would be the worst bank robbers in the entire world. My kid said he would wear a sock over his face. A sock! Would that even fit over your head? Would you be able to see through a sock? We had some great laughs and if you see us headed into a bank with socks in our hands, you better head the other direction! 

Hope you had a great Monday and ate lots of plants! Your colon will thank you!