Jungle Janie's Raw Vegan Blogspot

I've added it to the links below this blog if you're viewing this on my site, junglejanie.com. I've been hanging out there a bit lately 'cause I've been spinning cotton a lot lately, again. We just transplanted my naturally colored cotton plants into the ground the other day & I'm soooo excited! I've got pictures of them on my Flickr site, and have added a link to my page on Flickr below this blog as well... Gotta' go for now... am planning on updating y'all about more of my going's on lately tomorrow or the next day... Aloha! -Janie :)

Sleep: almost caught up now! Yay! :) Food: breakfast: the rest of the melon we got Wed. (see video) brunch: equivalent of 12 or 13 bananas (was more, but eating around bad spots and all) lunch: about the same as lunch in bananas again... the rest is TBD... probably have the last 2 bags of garbanzo sprouts as snack w/son when watching SGU with him, then salad and/or tat tsai with avocado and lemon juice dressing or dip We took a video of the food we got this week and put it on my Facebook account. I'm embedding it here (below) too for y'all. :) Exercise: 5 sets so far of:    15 reps. each of pushups    10 reps. each of jump lunges    10 reps. each of jump squat foot clap thingies 2 sets of:    30 reps. each on Leg Magic    10 reps. each of knee-up with a little shoulder lift 4 sets of:    1 rep. of assisted chin-ups I plan to do 5 more sets of the first group (pushups, etc.) and one more chin-up throughout...

K, so I'm on-track-ish for the Blogging so far... Yay! :) Farm It looks like we might have done our last farmers' market for a while, although we might have a bit for Wednesday. We're gonna' try... We harvested for yesterday's market hoping it'd clear up enough, but it didn't. The bridge was closed so we couldn't do the first one. The storm let up enough to go to the second one, but not many people were going out at that point anyway. There had been a lot of thunder and lightning in addition to the wind and rain and we don't usually get lightning, and even rarer is thunder with it. It started raining again and getting windy, etc. after a bit, so we left with lots of leftovers. Unfortunately we weren't able to preserve them, so they'll be future fertilizer via compost... Food Too bad about the salad 'cause I could use some salad right now. Oh well. I'll hafta' make do with something else. Kinda' a bummer to be combined with a s...

About Blogging K, so you wonder, what happened? Janie was on a roll again... Yeah, well, um... lots of stuff, actually. Sorry. I haven't been online much most of the time so it's been harder to do the blogging because of that. I'm thinking of doing audio or video blogging instead or in addition, alternating or something. Podcasts of sorts and all. My camera takes short videos fairly well and I might be able to find my son's digital audio recorder - both portable. I could do the blogs in-between stuff informally on the go... Hmmm... I think it has potential. I think I'll be able to do some of the FAQs with audio or video stuff too. That might get them to happen quicker than they've been happening. I have been pretty obsessed with knitting lately - been knitting pretty much every bit of spare time I have with my hands. I have also gotten into listening to Podcasts about crafts in addition to news and such as well. I just realized today that my son hasn't been ...

Sleep: been catching up well, sleeping extra to recover from back thingy too Food: I took pics of most of it... Thursday's Breakfast: 1/2 a watermelon, non-organic Thursday's Lunch: more bananas, didn't take a pic of them Thursday's Dinner: basically the same as Wednesday's, except I skipped the oranges Yesterday's Breakfast: It was basically the same as the day before (the other half of the watermelon), so I took a pic of myself with it for y'all so it was a bit different looking. I was also experimenting with the new camera and taking pics of myself while holding it and all. That's why my shoulder looks a bit strange - I was trying to hold it as far away from me as possible. LOL Yesterday's Lunch: Just bananas... Yesterday's Dinner: Salad of lettuce mix I got from Berkeley Bowl, heirloom tomatoes from the local grocery store and dressing of tahini and lemon juice (like before)... with some button shitake mushrooms & olives on top. It was al...

Sleep: woke at 7am, up at 7:30am to sleep for night last night at 11-ish Food: I'm gonna' try to take pictures of all my food now that I've got a camera I can take with me... Here are the first ones: Breakfast: 1/2 watermelon ("something grey" was the name - can't remember the first word) - I ate some before the pic :) Lunch (all organic): bananas and dates - most into smoothie for dipping the rest into (pic 1 is before smoothie, pic 2 is after) Dinner (all organic): 3 oranges (quartered & eaten off the rind - well, except one quarter that was squeezed into the dressing); salad: baby spinach (~5/8 pound), 2 heirloom tomatoes with dressing: ~2 Tbsp of tahini and juice of 2 lemons Here's a pic of the ingredients (I couldn't fit all the spinach into the largest bowl I have here, so it was less than that - and I only had a little of the tahini) Exercise: went to the gym again today - took the yoga class & intended to do the power pump one after it,...

Yep. I haven't kept up with this as much as I planned, but I'm still working on it. I'm on vacation now, so I'll be able to post more at least for a few weeks... I'm visiting a friend that lives in the general area that Health and Fitness Week is held right now. H&F Week was last week and I had fun making things pretty and doing fruit and veggie carvings, garnishes, etc. as the ambiance fairy there. Met lots of nifty new people and had a chance to reconnect with friends too. :) I didn't have a chance to take pictures though :( so I don't have any to show you right now. One of the nifty new people I met was a woman there to take photos though, so I'll be getting pics from her at some point that I'll be able to share with y'all. My camera's gotten quite lonely over the months I haven't been using it. I loaned it to my son who used it for a long time & then never got back into the habit of taking pics again...yet. ;) I brought it wit...

They've been painting things at the gym so my plan to escape the vog there hasn't been working out very well yet. The vog hasn't been quite as bad when it's been here lately, but it has kept me from being as productive as I'd like -and busy catching up when it's gone. LOL Technical issues with my Internet connection at the farm have limited my time online too... oh well. Life happens and keeps going, thank goodness! ;) I've been eating bananas for most of my daytime meals and things from our farm for dinners. I've been making cucumber noodles and various sauces with tomatoes and such as well as lots and lots of salads. Yum! The cucumbers are about pau (Hawaiian for done) and the next ones will not be ready for about a month, so will probably start having gazpacho or something. Mango season is starting up. Yay! Since we've still got some tomatoes going I might start doing some stuff with them together. Lennie made a great mango-tomato soup in Costa Ri...

Sleep: woke at 7am? for temp., up at 9-ish, but stayed in bed dozing here and there to get more sleep 'till 11-ish to sleep for night at 9pm Food: water from 3 young coconuts smoothie of 7 or 8 'cooking' bananas, 2 dates, 1 med. chocolate sapote (& filtered water) while stretching after run another smoothie of 7 'cooking' bananas, 3 dates, 1 med. chocolate sapote after showering (which was after finishing stretching and the other smoothie) 2 cups grapefruit juice after bike ride, followed by 6 surinam cherries off our tree 1 large head of lettuce followed by 5 largish cherry tomatoes sorry, didn't note the times, separated them when separated by time Exercise: Running! Ran 30 minutes straight for the first time today, and a little over 2.6 miles straight for the first time today as well! :) That makes the average pace a 11 minute, 32 second mile-ish. We hit the 1st mile mark at 10 minutes, 32 seconds though. It was quite challenging today, but I did it! Yay!...

Sleep: no temp today up at 7am to sleep for night at 10 or 11pm Food: smoothie with lots of bananas (sorry, didn't count), 3 dates, water and 1 med. chocolate sapote - drank while stretching after run water from 3 young cocos 5 large tangerines 8 chocolate sapotes jicama, 3 tomatoes, part of a small avocado, celery (6 sticks?), & lettuce Sorry, didn't note the times I went with a friend to see if we could harvest chocolate sapotes from some trees she knew about today. They weren't quite ready, but there were lots of citrus dropping off the trees. This was great 'cause I still have some chocolate sapotes and was about to run out of citrus since my son and hubby both decided they wanted to drink lots of OJ the day before (when they haven't been having much or any lately). It's a good thing they weren't quite ready 'cause I forgot to bring my picker poles 'cause I needed to leave earlier than I had planned so was in a rush. Oops! Turned out perfect...

Sleep: woke at 6am to wake people, laid in bed for a couple hours after everyone left at 7:30am, up at about 9 or 10 to sleep for night at ~ 11pm Food: gallon of young coconut water rest of the rambutan I have (about 3 pounds) only banana that was ripe :( it was a 'cooking' one though, which helps 'cause they have more calories 5 large tangerines rest of last night's dinner left overs with a small avocado added a couple of handfulls of my hubby's raw peanuts - probably about two dozen in those shells tahini-lemon dip with about 12 sticks celery Yeah, I definitely overate percentage-wise on the fat calories today. It's probably 'cause I didn't have enough ripe fruit and didn't have a way to get any at the time. Hopefully I'll have enough ripe tomorrow or can go get some somewhere... I wonder how it will affect my running tomorrow, if at all. When I go into town on Wednesday I'm definitely gonna' stock up on bananas however I can - I'll...

I'm posting this on 1/28/08, so anything I didn't write down at the time is from memory. I'm sort of out of the swing of keeping track of it all. Sleep: don't remember when I got up, think it was about 8:30am, had gone to sleep pretty late the night before laid down from about 5:45-6:45pm 'cause my neck was a little stiff and I had a tad of a headache - figured out that it was from working it the day before. I had walked to the farmer's market (about 3-5 blocks-ish) and gotten two bags of stuff. When I was leaving a farmer told me that they had a bunch of chocolate sapotes for me, so I took the box of them. I carried the box of them home, with the bags over my right shoulder. I carried it with my right shoulder up a bit attempting to keep the bags from falling off my shoulder, which eventually they did and I carried it with them fallen to my elbow. I'm pretty sure it's 'cause I carried it so strangely that my neck was a bit sore on the right side. Am...

Here's a picture of the shoe I made from scrap lauhala (pandanus) the other day. It worked pretty well - needs a toe loop though 'cause the bottom's sort of floppy. Not enough time or good leaves to make another. Took a few pictures of it with a cell phone camera and left it to compost. :)