 Click on the image to sign up or donate to the Step Up Challenge Join Coach Bethanie for the "EcoRecon Expedition Fundraiser" at 9:00 a.m. at True Spirt Complete Fitness! We will be raising money to bring a group of veteran men and women back to Great Basin National Park for two weeks in August 2025.
In August 2024, S2S executive director Michael Cohn led a team of veteran participants on a two-week expedition at Great Basin National Park in the high Nevada desert. During this experience, veterans had an exclusive opportunity to work alongside rangers, biologists, and researchers. They learned directly from scientists in the field; they collected specimens, handled wildlife, utilized special equipment, and recorded data, all while learning more about field protocols and land management practices. This year we will be continuing the work we started last year with fisheries biologist Jonathan Reynolds in his efforts to reinstate the native Bonneville Cutthroat Trout back to the park. New this year, the Great Basin Bird Observatory will be taking us under their wing (pun intended) and introducing us to some their current projects and research. Click on the image above to sign up or donate.
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EcoRecon Expedition Step Up ChallengeJoin Coach Bethanie this Saturday at 9am for the EcoRecon Expedition Step Up Challenge raising money to support a group of Soldiers2Scientists veterans returning to Great Basin National Park in Nevada to assist park rangers and fisheries biologists on the Bonneville Cutthroat Trout restoration project. If you would like to donate, sponsor a veteran, or sign up to join us for the challenge here: https://runsignup.com/Race/MT/Bozeman/EcoReconExpedition April 5th is also her birthday and sign ups and donations is the best way to celebrate with her. What's for Dinner?Some of us might be shopping at Costco more than usual these days. I firmly believe that we can vote with our fork:) Turns out that shopping at Costco has economic and health benefits in addition to social benefits. The economic value of Costco was explored by the New York Times in an article called “How Costco Became the Anti-Walmart." At Costco, one of Mr. Sinegal's cardinal rules is that no branded item can be marked up by more than 14 percent, and no private-label item by more than 15 percent. In contrast, supermarkets generally mark up merchandise by 25 percent, and department stores by 50 percent or more. Did you know that, "Starbucks roasts Kirkland coffee (two pounds, $10), Bumble Bee produces the Kirkland Signature albacore tuna (eight cans, $13), and Adams does Costco’s organic peanut butter (56 ounces, $10)?" Nope, neither did I! Here is an excellent list of healthy options courtesy of Michael Easter at Costco: Fruits and Vegetables Now that you have a fridge full of good, cost effective food what's next? FREEZE HALF OF IT! The key to keeping Costco cost effective is to minimize food waste. Kale, spinach, green beans, broccoli can all be frozen. I always freeze two of the packages of chicken breasts. If you're feeling particularly productive, you can meal prep on Sunday and put all of that abundance into to go containers for lunch. Now you're really going to save some bills because you won't need to buy lunch this week. One of my favorite ways to meal prep is to make a few sheet pan meals on Sunday. New York Times Cooking has many sheet pan recipes and all that I've tried have been great. If you don't have a NWT Cooking subscription, there are thousands of food bloggers with easy and tasty sheet pan recipes. Here's one from Pinch of Yum for sheet pan chicken tinga bowls. This is a great recipe to make for next week's lunches! You can buy everything at Costco. Happy eating!  Click the image for an east sheet pan recipe for chicken tinga bowls.  Get ready to run today The Origin of April Fool's DayI'm still in Florida taking care of my folks. I intended to share the April Fool's origin tory yesterday. Think of it as a special treat:)
According to History.com: "Some historians speculate that April Fools’ Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563. In the Julian Calendar, as in the Hindu calendar, the new year began with the spring equinox around April 1. People who were slow to get the news or failed to recognize that the start of the new year had moved to January 1 and continued to celebrate it during the last week of March through April 1 became the butt of jokes and hoaxes and were called 'April fools.' These pranks included having paper fish placed on their backs and being referred to as “poisson d’avril” (April fish), said to symbolize a young, easily caught fish and a gullible person." Whatever! I wish we had stayed with the Julian calendar, It makes way more sense to me to have the new year start on the Spring Equinox rather than the dead of winter. But hey, what do I know? Speaking of changes to the calendar. Did you read yesterday's news? |
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