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I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here. All my coping tips are under this tag. 

Today’s tip is to get outside and notice 5 beautiful things.

It’s winter, and it’s cold. Still, you can find beauty in little things. I decided to grab a few shots recently while I was outside. Here are my beautiful things:

• Azure – she think’s she’s co-trainer with my wife. She’s ready to start, waiting for the horse to be saddled.
• Vega – She was running around, and stopped to wait for me. Quite patiently.
• The view in the snow from the front yard. Always makes me smile.
• Sun in Denver; a big reason we moved here.
• A new tool, Ranger 570. The old one is old, and this gives us a spare, which will make repairs easier. However, this is also a really nicely engineered machine.

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here. All my coping tips are under this tag. 

Today’s tip is to eat something new and healthy today.

A few weeks ago, I was in the Colorado mountains with my wife. We were late getting started, and stopped to grab a bite to eat as an early lunch. I decided to try and eat better here and chose a “power bowl” from a restaurant. It was a combination of rice and quinoa with a number of vegetables piled on. I thought it was delicious, in addition to being visually appealing, and decided to duplicate some of it at home.

I grabbed these ingredients at home the next week and have had this for lunch a few times, assembling things for me and my wife:

• mixed greens (instead of the rice/quinoa)
• cucumber (chopped)
• tomatoes ( I prefer smaller ones, sliced in half)
• avocado – sliced or cut into chunks
• red onion – thinly sliced
• chicken – sautéed with salt, pepper, dash cumin, paprika, garlic powder
• calmata olives
• feta cheese
• balsamic vinaigrette

I tend to cut the cucumber, tomato, and onion up and keep a couple days worth in plastic. I’ll do the chicken up, but chop up a couple portions on demand. I use chunk feta and olives in separate containers and then add them as needed. I prefer more feta, and my wife doesn’t like olives, so I customize those.

I’ll usually cut open an avocado and slice that with chicken. The rest I assemble in a bowl on top of greens, add some dressing, and then toss. Usually I’ll just use two bowls if my wife is eating, and do each next to the other.

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here. All my coping tips are under this tag. 

Today’s tip is to stop and look at something in a new way today.

The world is full of sameness these days. I feel like it’s March 312th, 2020 still in many ways. While I know it’s not, and I do get to do some things outside of my house, most of my world just repeats over and over.

What can I see that’s new? The other day I was leaving to go to the store and I saw the Momma horse out by herself. Baby is getting confident and was walking around, but I stopped for a minute and watched Momma. And took a picture.

For most of the time she’s been here, about 7 months now, we’ve seen her as part of this foal process. However, she’s her own creature, and I stopped to look at her for a few minutes enjoying her life.