It's time to COWBOY UP ... Reflections on a family vacation out west.

Had a chance to see some real cowboys working the cattle ranches in California and Nevada ... Yep, it's time to COWBOY UP! ... After all -- scale weight was UP ... Belt size UP a notch too ... Thank God we did a lot of city touring on foot and we ended our family vacation hiking the mountains in Yosemite ... Without such activity I'm afraid this two-week vacation would have set me back too far fitness-wise.

Ain't complaining ... Did try to make healthful decisions at meal time ... Succeeded more often than not ... Did try to get in some body-weight exercises daily ... Succeeded more often than not in this department too ... Focused a lot of time and energy on THINGS THAT MATTER ... Worked on time and relationship w/ family ... Concentrated on the WHY- versus on the HOW-issues of wellness (physical, mental, spiritual).

So to get back to the western theme I started on ... That's about it ... Don't want to be accused of being 'all talk - no cattle' ... Yep, it's time to COWBOY UP ... As in when you're thrown from your horse (or bucked from a bull) you just get up, dust yourself off, and get back to what you were supposed to be doing.