149.0 Bright Cloud Pineapple Spokane

 I know. I know. I am obsessed with clouds. More like with photographing clouds. I just had to pull over and snap this yesterday on my way home from buying Washington Fuji apples at Wal-mart. This is the sun shining through a cloud and suffusing it with rainbows. It cast rainbow bits around it, too. You can see a rainbow bit on the right edge, where I have cropped the photo. See it? See the rainbow in the stem of what looks like a bright cloud pineapple?

Of course, this was even more magnificent in real life. The naked eye sees rainbows better than the camera, I think. And it was constantly changing. At first, the rainbows showed up in the bottom of the pineapple. The locals here in Spokane make fun of me for paying so much attention to the clouds, but man, I can't help it. This place has the most beautiful cloud phenomena I have ever seen, almost every day.

I lost .4 pounds yesterday, eating Papa John's pizza -- just not very much of it. We walked the dogs a mile in the park. Here is everything I ate yesterday and lost .4 pounds:

Small bowl of Special K and organic soy milk
Sliced Fuji apple candied with 4 tablespoons chunky peanut butter and 36 dark chocolate chips
Bean and cheese burrito with salsa
Leftover baked chicken and carrots with half a can of Amy's organic lentil soup
1/4 dinner plate of Papa John's pizza, "The Works"

145 Fuji Apples Washington State

The first time I tried to buy a Fuji apple was 25 years ago, and they tried to charge me almost $4 for it! They were grown only in Japan, back then, and shipped over to the US individually wrapped in rubber socks. Today, Fuji apples are grown locally here in Washington State, and sold for 85 cents a pound at Wal-mart.

Fuji apples are the best apples I have ever tasted. They are crisp through and through with none of that powdery dry consistency. Fuji apples are sweet. Fuji apples are juicy. They are perfect.

Me being interested in apples is a new thing, part of my lifestyle change from fat person to skinny person. I have started to crave apples when I want something sweet, instead of cookies or cake. My favorite snack lately is a Fuji apple sliced in 12 with 2 tablespoons of peanut butter divided among the slices and 24 chocolate chips stuck into the peanut butter. I am having this for breakfast this morning, in fact.

I gained .8 pounds yesterday, but I needed to. I was .8 pounds under my goal weight of 145 to 149.9. The banana bread I made was most of the reason I gained. Yum! I am having some of that with my breakfast coffee, too! We walked the dogs a mile and a half round the park. Here is what I ate yesterday:

Sliced Fuji apple with 2 tablespoons peanut butter and 24 chocolate chips
Bean and cheese burrito with salsa
Hamburger on a bun with BBQ sauce and cheese
Lots of banana bread!

According to Washington State University, Fuji apples were first harvested in Washington in 1992. The university's data also confirms that Fuji apples are crisper than Red Delicious apples.