Jana Opperman

After Two weeks of summer like weather it looks like fall snuck in! But not much 🍁 in the colors yet. But pumpkin spice helps a lot with eating vegetables!

Made it to Vermont- easy to eat vegetarian and spend some time outside around here!

Today it was warm so I walked the dogs and I washed them- with the hose of course! I had to change into my bathing suit. What a week- bathing dogs and swimming in the ocean in NJ in October! It better get cold soon...would love to get rid of the mosquitoes!

On Saturday we walked all around the glass pumpkins for hours and enjoyed the grey day with friends at the Wheaton Arts festival. 

Spent the afternoon on the American Star looking for dolphins and humpbacks but none showed. That means we get another free trip next time. When we went to dinner we heard the humpbacks were breaching and playing in front of the Congress Hall Hotel in the morning. It’s all in the timing... but the day was beautiful and the seas were smooth once we got into the Delaware Bay. I wore myt-shirt the whole time it was that warm!!!! No need for a sweatshirt in October on the ocean!

Today for breakfast I had portabella mushroom grilled with avocado and micro greens and potatoes. Then we went to the hawk watch at Cape May light house and saw many hawks but the American Bittern flying and 2 Bald Eagles fighting in flight were really special! After a couple hours the rain came but we went to the Audubon bird observatory and we saw about 25 Great Blue heron flying in formation- heading south. And a few warblers and a yellow billed cuckoo- special fall migration sightings!  

Today I ate breakfast with out meat. It looks like it will often be breakfast since we are on vacation this week and next and so often I want to try local fare in fancy restaurants! But very often on vacation at least I only eat 2 meals...

Went out on the birdwatchers trolley in Cape May with friends. Afterwards we went back to the Nature Conservancy property to continue our bird walk. Then had lunch  - see next challenge. 

Louisa reminded me I was a veteran of the Ecologicals - lol! I seem to be on vacation when this activity occurs so the actions can be hard to log into when we camp. But then they were able to get us to log in our attempts a Day late over the years! Thanks to this it helps our points- a lot -and encourages the habit changing!and keeps me hanging in there!