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I get into work this morning and those damn grape/plums are in the kitchen again. Is someone growing funky hybrids at home? If so, I want a bunch. So I need you guys input on these little things…what are they??? (sorry about the bad photos, these were taken with my cell phone camera.)
Here it is up close. It just look like a grape on a little bit of EPO.
And to help aid in this investigation, I have a photo of one of the seeds. I know all of you were dying to see something I have spit out of my mouth.
So what grape has a seed that is about 1/4 of its body weight? These things are very ripe and juicy. Maybe they are just midget plums.
Anyway, I digress….
I went to the knee doctor this morning (oh how I love you Dr. St. Pierre!) He told me that my knee is about as good as it will ever get. After a major accident and 2 subsequent surgeries it will never be perfect but it is as good as a human hand can do. The graft has taken (yes, I have a dead person’s Achilles heel tendon holding my knee together. I like to refer to it as George. George was an 84 year old ex-WWII vet that stormed the beaches of Normandy with this tendon.) and my quads are no longer atrophied. Here is the main culprit of the atrophy:
I lived in a cast up to my hip for 2 months. I had to ride the long way in the back seat of the car.
I did ask him about the issues I am having with jogging and the fact my knee keeps hyperextending and he is putting me back in physical therapy 2 times a week for a month. I have to go for gait training. I feel a lot like a horse.
Then Dr. St. Pierre told me the worst news of all. He is leaving me. After our 17 months together, he is abandoning me for a lucrative position out in sunny Southern California. I think I cried a little. It is a sad day for Northern Va athletes for losing such a attractive great surgeon. He is my 50 year-old version of my Paul Newman crush. He did complement me on my good looking arm muscles. These high weights are paying off!
Okay, I have to admit that I forgot my camera today. I must have gotten so flustered leaving the house to go see the doc that I left the camera on the kitchen counter. I will add photos tonight.
Breakfast
I made some overnight oats using that 4 grain mix from yesterday. This turned out much better than hot oats. I took 1/2 cup of the grains and mixed it with 1/4 cup of soy milk and 1/2 cup of water. This morning the grains had absorbed at least 90% of the liquid. I mixed in 1/2 a banana, 2T of fage yogurt, 1T of flax seed, about 10 raisins, some cinnamon and some honey to sweeten it up a bit. Very tasty.
AM Snack
Planning on having my kefir (surprising!) with a mix of Kashi Go Lean crunch and some dried fruit.
Oh yeah, and last night I did have a snack after abs. We ended up doing 20 minutes abs with Cindy. I definitely broke a sweat and prayed for a power outage so that I could quit early. Anyway, I had myself a little less than 1/4 cup of fage with some honey, chocolate chips and dried fruit mixed in afterwards.
Could they be concord grapes? Check em out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_grape
That’s what they look like to me!
is it bad that Im judging your dr merely on his name?
that with THAT name he must be McDreamySteamy.
and Im no help on the fruit—-except to eat it.
thanks so much for the comment!
wow, that fruit looks interesting. blueberries with date-like seeds?! hmmm. personally I get so impatient eating fruits with seeds you have to spit out like that. especially when you only get a little bit of blueberry with it!
wow, what an ordeal it sounds like you have gone through with your leg! hope the training goes well. and sorry you are losing your surgeon
have a great day!
omigosh, “Prep” is my absolute favorite book! I loved the author’s style of writing so much, and identified in a million ways with Lee. It must have been really interesting to read it from the point of view of someone who also went to boarding school! I went to a private school, but it had enough of its fair share of quirks, hehe.
I haven’t read “Man of my Dreams” yet, but I want to. and I will definitely report on “Love the One”
i loved prep!
god- i thought the picture of you leg was recent. you scared the crap out of me.
http://www.groundedfitness.com
Jenn–I am thinking they may be but I couldn’t find a photo online showing the Concord grape seed.
Mizfit–How else do you think I picked him as my doctor?? Nothing makes waking up from surgery in a daze than staring into the blue eyes of Dr. St. Hottie. (It does help that he is a well recommended orthopedic surgeon though.)
iameatingtolive–I probably should follow your lead and not eat fruit with a seed like that. While trying to make sure I had gotten all the pulp of the fruit off it, I accidentally swallowed one. Maybe that is why I had a stomach ache all day. That or maybe I’ll have grapes grow in my stomach. And it has been an ordeal with the leg. How one split second can change your life forever.
Every Gym’s Nightmare–I was almost embarrassed to buy Prep at first and now I try to push it on everyone I know. No, the picture of the leg luckily isn’t all that recent (the lovely Halloween socks help date it for me.) but in my brain I feel like I was in that damn thing forever and that is was only yesterday that it was finally cut off.
Hi!!! Thanks so much for the comments in my blog today!
I am not sure the the grapes are the concord grapes but the concord grapes I know are small and the seeds are too small too that you can eat ( I used to eat e lot of these in Brazil, we call this Niagara grape). Where I live know, I never found this type of grapes. Anyway, enjoy eating them all!!!!
Sgreyce: So the mystery of the grapes continues on!!!
I know you do not know me, I just sort of stumbled upon your sight and was reading how you have a graft that you named George. That got my attention because I have a bone graft in my ankle and I also call it George and imagined he was an old war hero that gave his body to science to continue helping his country. Really strange……