To eat, or not to sleep... that is the question. I think. Maybe....

Just wondering something.... I've been reading about things that are good to eat before bed, to help you sleep.  Bananas, cottage cheese, cherries, cereal, milk.   Noticing anything here?  Most of these are traditional breakfast foods.  Sooooo.... should we be eating things that  help us sleep - first thing in the morning?  No wonder I'm tired all day!!!  Also, they say that keeping your protein levels higher is a good plan for energy.  Yet, cottage cheese, turkey, and greasy foods like hamburgers, cheeses, etc... are protein foods.  They are good at bedtime.  Well, not the greasy stuff....  (the chin dribble might stain yer pillow.)  So what is a fatiqued fool to do?  Eat this to sleep, but also eat it for energy...........  STOP IT you "experts"!  Just STOP IT!  I'm tired.  Tired and Ornery!   No patience for waiting for ya'll to make up your minds.  Get serious, eh?  I need some pep!!  And I need it now! 

Destined for Destin

I am sooooo glad my daughter moved  back to town!!!   Besides the fact that she is fun and funny and sweet and etc....   she likes to HIKE, like me.  And last week she was at the hospital visiting a friend and when she was in the waiting room, she flipped through a travel magazine and saw a "favorite hiking spots" article, and some of them were.... right up the road from our house!!! 

So today we went to the one in Destin.  Destin, Florida is only about 30 miles from our front door!!!  Maybe 40.  But definitely CLOSE!   So we went on down there, to Henderson Beach State Park and we hiked around the trail off the beach.  It was pretty cool.  If you looked off to your right, you saw condos reaching up to the sky.  To your left was the beautiful Emerald Coast (Destin Beach) and straight ahead was a sandy trail with awesome plants and varmints (just the little dinosaur looking lizards) all around.  We walked the trail, taking pictures, and videos and enjoying the amazingness of it all (Photos on Facebook --- Videos on Youtube...  soon...).   It was only 3/4ths of a mile, so --- we walked it Twice!!  It was amazing both times.    I highly recommend this little trail.  Very enjoyable. 

Then we walked about a half mile down to Destin Beach.  It was beautiful as always.  The water was emerald green, the sand pure white, and sooo clean, the sand was squeeking.  Always pleasant down there.

And we ate at Floyd's for lunch.  Sat out on the deck, overlooking the water.  Nice little breeze.  Perfect.  We had a shrimp dip of some sort that was DELISH!!  And blackened shrimp tacos.  I am not a blackened kind of person, but these were not Overly blackened, so they were Good too! 

Triple Treat again.  Excellent trail, excellent beach, excellent lunch, excellent company... wait - that's 4.  What's the word for four??? Quad Treat.   Ohhhhh..... so blessed!!!!!   Love it!!!!

Triple Treat

Yesterday I had a triple whammy.  Of goodness!!

My daughter discovered a local pet store that has been there for months and I never even knew it.  It is a wonderful place to spend some time.  They have everything under the sun in there.  Even Moose antlers.  For dogs to chew on!  I can't even remember what all they have in there.  But it has your basics (organic - Good for your loved ones) food, and treats.  Homemade treats... pure natural ingredients.  There are Unusual things as well, like  Catnip bubbles.  I snatched up one of those!!!  And did Lil absolutely love them?  No,  No she did not.  I told her they smell like catnip.  They were floating all around her and one even landed on her.  She sat there... un-amused.   Well, I thought it was a cool idea. I'll try it with my daughter's cat and see how that goes.  Someone better like these catnip bubbles besides me! 

I also went into the local Asian grocery store.  It's been there a while also, but I didn't know about it.  Marketing....  very important.  But anyway...   it was a small store but had a lot of interesting (and gross) things in there.  I bought some sweet potato noodles.  I was looking for seaweed noodles.  But this was as close as I could get for now.  I haven't fixed any yet.  But I'll keep ya posted.  They are green.  Hmmm.... I checked the label.  Nothing in there but sweet potatoes and starch.  Is starch green?  I don't think so....   I'll get to the bottom of this one day..........  maybe. 

And I ate at an Asian restaurant.  Local as well.  I knew it was there but I was afraid to go in.  I heard they were full of RAW fish and such.  Sushi.  Ewww.... My daughter MADE me try some.  I resisted and twisted and plugged my nose and closed my eyes and --- I liked it!!  It didn't taste raw at all.  How do you make raw fish taste cooked?  I'll get to the bottom of that too... one of these days.  I will, cause it really has me intrigued. 

So there ya have it.  Triple Treat all in one day.  I hope that was legal.  ๏̯͡๏