I\’m always rooting around, looking for new ideas for meals. For snacks, too; it\’s not unusual for me to chow down a quarter-pound of raw carrots as a snack. I especially enjoy them with hummus. But sometimes carrot sticks and apple wedges get wearisome. Ditto for almonds, hazelnuts, etc.

I\’ve got to root around and find something else, then; and I don\’t mean candy bars! Maybe Laughing Cow? Sometimes I take a tablespoon or two of dried fruit with my carrot sticks; and that seems to help those carrots go down a bit easier.

Even though my prediabetes seems to be in remission, I can\’t afford to slack off on the diet; so I keep browsing through my various books, looking for new recipes to try. Lentil Dal, for example; that\’s from page 24 of the vegetarian cookbook. It will let me use up the cauliflower that I have.

I\’m glad I had a well-established cycling routine when I got my prediabetes diagnosis in February 2020. Otherwise I might still be rooting around, looking for some kind of exercise I could enjoy; and who knows, I might not have been able to shed those excess 26 pounds.

We all know of another kind of rooting around: when we need an item of cycling gear (gloves, arm warmers, etc.); and need it right now; but it seems to have disappeared, even though we know we \”just saw it\”. That kind of burrowing activity can delay a ride; and is especially aggravating when time is already short.

This ought to teach me to keep my things in better order. Unfortunately, I never have been the paragon of neatness. I keep a cardboard box next to my helmet, where I store gloves, helmet liners, and such; but it inevitably becomes a jumble!