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Archive for July, 2023

Email A Tree?

Posted by terrepruitt on July 26, 2023

I am currently listening to a book. And it is taking me forever even though I am not paying that much attention. It is interesting, but it is telling me what I know. It is filling me in on more details about what I know so that is why I am trying to listen, but I cannot remember the details nor do I need to. It is giving me additional information, but it is also causing me to be very curious about a lot of things so I find myself stopping and looking things up and going off on tangents. And one thing it just informed me of had me saying “OH! I am doing a blog post about this.”

The book is The Joy of Movement and it is explaining about “runner’s high” and how the brain is effected and a lot of “cut up the brains of lab animals” kind of stuff.

But I am at the point where it mentions you can e-mail trees in Melbourne. Now the program started years ago with the intent of notifying the city if there was an issue, but people emailed gratitude and admiration. So . . . . of course, I had to do it.

I found a lot of articles regarding it, but I didn’t see any of them say how. So I went to the city’s website and entered “email a tree” in the search and a map came up and you can click on a tree and it states the type of tree it is and allows you to click “email tree”. So I did. 🙂

Since I don’t know anything about the city I picked a tree on Batman Avenue.  🙂

Anyone else interested in e-mail a tree? Tell me what you say.

I sent an e-mail to:

Araucaria
Bunya pine
tree ID : 1635292

 

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Yay For Flowers!

Posted by terrepruitt on July 21, 2023

We haven’t had a lot of these roses this year, but they are spectacular when they show up. A beautiful orange yard rose (from April 2023) for today’s Friday Photo.

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Half Kneeling Inner Thigh Stretch

Posted by terrepruitt on July 19, 2023

If you have seen any stretching posts of mine, you know I love me some stretching. You know I think stretching is very important and very beneficial. Here is another stretch for you.

Here are quick instructions:

-Kneel on the floor and take one leg out. Knee pointing away from the body to the side. If you were to hold your arm out to the side the thigh would be in alignment with the knee and toes point out in the same direction.

-You can use your arm to push the knee/thigh back a bit.

-I may be stating the obvious, but normally you would do one side after the other. 🙂

That’s it.

This is an inner thigh stretch. It stretches your adductor muscles.

As with many stretches and exercises there are many ways to stretch/exercise a muscle/set of muscles. This is just one.

I teach a stretch class so, of course, I would love you to join, but I also really believe that stretching is so very important so I just want to post some stretches so you can do them on your own and experience the benefit of stretching.

Do you stretch?

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Cat-Cow

Posted by terrepruitt on July 17, 2023

I am always wondering why they say “Cat-Cow” but DO “Cow-Cat”? I don’t. In my classes I say Cat-Cow and we do cat first. But in all the yoga and stretch classes I take – except for one I remember  – they say “Cat-Cow” but we DO “Cow-Cat”.

I wonder why that is . . . . anyone else or am I the only one?  Does anyone know why?

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Blue Sky

Posted by terrepruitt on July 14, 2023

A week ago I went out to run a quick errand.  When I jumped back into my car it wouldn’t start that is when I noticed how blue and completely clear the sky was.  The photo doesn’t really do it justice as I am not a photographer, but it will serve to remind me that sometimes things happen to make me stop to look around.  I am sharing my “blue sky” for my Friday Photo.

 

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Mayo

Posted by terrepruitt on July 12, 2023

I had a funny friend post something recently on Facebook that made a few of us go, “Huh?”  She does not eat mayonnaise, but ended up with a very large jar of it in her fridge, but that wasn’t the “Huh?” part.  The “HUH?” was “Extra Heavy”.  I had to look it up.  Interesting.  Extra heavy means more egg yolks which is really kind of funny because I feel like the mayo we buy USED to list eggs as the first ingredients and now it is “soybean oil”.  So then I was thinking that “back in the day” perhaps most mayonnaise were “heavy” because they contained more eggs and more yolks.  Either way, I was fascinated that there was such a thing as “extra heavy mayonnaise”.

Have you ever heard of that?

 

 

 

 

 

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Grits

Posted by terrepruitt on July 7, 2023

I posted this picture on Twitter last month but it is on my computer so I keep seeing a reminder of it.  Grits.  I used to eat them with butter, salt, and bacon crumbled in them.  But I haven’t had bacon in a long time.  The last time I bought it and cooked it, it just wasn’t good so I don’t bother any more.  But we usually have Canadian bacon or ham so we have been using that.  Fry it and chop it up.  And now I add cheese.  I don’t eat them often, but they are yummy when I do.  Sharing this for my Friday Photo and posing the question(s) – Do you eat grits?  If so, how do you eat them?

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Half Kneeling Psoas Stretch

Posted by terrepruitt on July 3, 2023

I would wager that most of you reading this know that stretching is very beneficial. Daily stretching can do wonders for comfortable movement. Stretching does not have to be a time consuming thing. I may agree that longer sessions of stretching might be more beneficial than shorter ones, but a quick stretch is better than nothing. Also, if done daily a 5 minute stretch session could really help.

And when I say “help” I mean help with moving throughout life more comfortably. Of course, there are many people that have many issues that could be exacerbated by some moves so please keep in mind that I am not giving medical advice and that you need to keep your own body’s situation in mind.

With all of that said here is a great stretch that can reach multiple areas.

Here are quick instructions with * adding more.

-Kneel down and bring one leg out in front, whole foot on the ground.* (Half kneeling.)

-Keep the hip of the “down leg” in alignment above the knee. Activate the glutes by tightening or pushing forward a bit.** Add an “additional” stretch by lifting the arm and bending to the side of the front leg.***

-Remember to lengthen the spine and keep the “up” arm shoulder relaxed.

*Stability can be obtained by moving the front leg away from the midline of the body, by turning the foot of the front leg in, or by pulling the front leg’s knee in toward the body. Also one could use a block, furniture, or a wall to stabilize.

The foot of the “down” knee can be flat (top of foot on the floor) or with toes “curled”.

**The stretch is happening in the front of the body of the kneeling leg. I say “front” of the body because it is not just in the leg, but also it is not really the “front” of the body it more of an internal stretch through the psoas.
***When you lift the arm the stretch also goes through the side of the body.

It targets multiple areas that can really benefit from being flexible.  The main area being stretched is the psoas, hip flexors, the side body, and the ankle.  If you curl the toes (of the down leg) then you would be stretching through the bottom of the foot (like in a toe squat).

We do this often in my classes.  Do you stretch? 

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