Seasonal Keto Favorites.....

     More relatives arrived this week, and we enjoyed a lovely dinner together last night. Our niece, her family, and Steve's brother and wife are in Birch Bay for several days. Jacob and Harald will arrive this evening, so we look forward to more family time.  Hatch green chili arrived last week, so everyone is in for a treat!  I'll make some green chili chicken for burritos using the Carb Balance tortillas.  Yum! We're still doing our daily routine and continue to enjoy it.  The crabbing season opens in Birch Bay on Thursday, so we'll enjoy that for many more weeks.  Steve and his brother also plan to fish for salmon in the Canadian waters across from our place.  I hope they can catch some salmon because they are so expensive.  I've had smoked salmon brunches daily because they fit neatly into my keto cuisine, and Steve absolutely loves smoked salmon, especially if it's sockeye. We found a ton of Bristol Bay sockeye on sale several weeks ago and smoked, packaged, and froze it.  However, we're about to run out, so we've been searching for more sockeye and trying to find a price as reasonable as we found earlier but that's highly unlikely. We might have to face the facts and pay the current sockeye prices because we need more salmon to smoke. Steve finished fixing the brake lines on our old van.  He amazes me the way he figures things out.  He fixed the catalytic converter on our Prius in Hawaii, which was complicated! He also fixed his brother's ophthalmology table, a highly complex system that includes a microscope and other very sensitive equipment on board a rotating table.  Steve managed to fix it using relays, switches, and tension belts. He did such a great job that his brother bought two other disassembled tables.  Steve put everything together, so now Ken has three separate functioning rooms that are fully equipped. He can bring in a couple of other ophthalmologists, which will save the day for him because he's pretty tired and ready to reduce his hours at the office. We are so blessed that Steve is so capable and so many ways. His ability to figure things out and our hard work allowed us to complete several fixers and sell them for a profit. With those resources, we've built a couple of really nice houses. Also, if it weren't for Steve, we wouldn't have our little surf shack by the beach in Oahu. We absolutely love it and hope to continue hanging out there for several months every year. I'm working hard on building muscle and continuing my hour of cardio every day. Even though I'm not losing weight, I know I'm staying healthy. I'll take that, although I'm still trying to determine if I have any other issues preventing weight loss.