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Observed Weather at Hallo Bay 6:30 AM Weather Conditions: Overcast with light rain Visibility: 10 miles Ceiling: 2500 feet Wind: 4 mph out of NW Wind Gusts: to 5 mph Current Temp: 40 F High Daytime Temp Yesterday: 48 F Barometric Pressure: 30.05 and steady Outside Humidity: 89% Rainfall: 0.00 Total inches last 24 hours (see Other Notes) Rainfall: 0.72 Total inches for May Rainfall:...

I am entering the GB birthday challenge by advising what I have done on my birthday as my commitment to health and wellnes. On May 20th, (my birthday is actually May 23rd but I cant change the race schedules !), I competed in an Ironman 70.3 triathlon in Haines City, Fl. The race consists of a 1/14 mile swim, a 56 mile bike, and a 13 mile run for a total of 70.3 miles. I placed 3rd in the...

If you are tempted to snack at the end of the day, try this technique. Review everything you have eaten throughout the day and total the calories. If you find that you have eaten quite enough given your weight loss goals, reassure yourself with this information. Remind yourself that you have had plenty of calories and that you can just ignore the impulse for additional eating. Sometimes the...

One of my very best friends, journalist Liz Welter, and I made an impromptu dash to Chicago to check out the seventh annual Printers' Ball at the historic Ludington Building on July 29 to see what all the advance hoopla was about. I've been doing a lot of literary things in my home town in the past few years, such as reading essays and giving presentations, and this just floated across the radar...

I found out recently that "recycling service" is built into my garbage pickup contract. It's only been three years since the divorce, when I got the house and the yard and all the ways of doing things that my ex had been doing them for more than two decades. And for about two decades, his way of doing things related to garbage disposal consisted of him taking the trash down to the end of the...