Since stating the Bydureon BCise as part of my diabetes regimen back in June I have lost a total of 14 pounds. I’m still losing slowly but by exercising I’m adding muscle tone and losing inches in the right places.
Today I’ve been baking cookies and making fudge and spiced pecans for the family. We will be “doing“ Christmas on Jan 1…that is the day our girls and their families can all come.
Pecan Crisps..my Grandmother’s recipe…time consuming but a family favorite.
Spiced Pecans…cinnamon sugar and...
Stress and sweat can lead to a break through candid yeast bloom on surface skin.
Depending on the location you can try topical treatments like Sea Breeze, Witch Hazel or Butenafine Hydrochloride 1% ointment found at your local pharmacy.
Or you might need to get a prescription for...
I use powdered Stevia Instead of sugar in coffee or tea.
I drink water all day long by carrying my Yeti thermos everywhere I go. It even sits on the night stand at night.
Most pop has sugar or artificial sweeteners…some of which are detrimental too.
I drink Fresca once in a while. No sugar...
I am almost done purging the last jars of fruit juice. These are the last jars…1/2 gallon and some quarts...about 14 gallon total.
Sure represents hours of picking, cleaning, cooking, processing in times of plenty.
MIL advised me to make juice from sand plums when they produced because they...
Yes, Ruby even snuck pickled okra from the bucket.
Arava or generic leflunamide…an anti inflammatory. I’ve been on it one week. End of this week I go in for bloodwork to monitor chem changes since last bloodwork.
My extras this week has been going thru the canned goods. Mind you, I’ve been canning every year and remove jars over two years old. With the remodel looming and moving to the rent house, I had not purged the out-of-date jars.
So when I recently processed the pumpkins I had to find room to...
My extra today..hula hooped for 15 minutes…outside…beautiful morning.
I was going to go fishing for a bit, to stretch my right shoulder when a neighbor called. He needed help getting a calf to the vet. We loaded the four day old calf and took her to the vet. Then helped hubby restrain the calf...
Pumpkin cooling down.
Finally out of the oven!
Boiling the pumpkin seed was a flop. Either I didn’t press hard enough to crack the hulls or I didn’t boil them long enough. Anyone remember the song about “eating goober peas”? Well that’s what they are like. I toasted some others and they...
Today, I have put up 14 quarts of pumpkin from 4 pumpkins and have enough pumpkin purée to make a few pies this evening. The canners are cooling down.
Now I’m going to run my dough roller over the washed seeds to crack the hulls and then boil the seeds to remove the hulls. (At least those are...
My extra today was hauling feed to the chicken pens, two loads of laundry, drive to a doctor appt in OKC and then cutting up a big pumpkin and canning 7 quarts.
I have 5 more pumpkins to butcher and can this week.
Today my Doctor added Arava 20mg (leflunomide) to my arthritis inflammation meds...
Started today with chicken and pet chores.
broke down all these boxes…
Will begin making lunch
And then going to sort thru and organize all the boxes full of office and filing “stuff“ from the move.
Then I need to tackle this mess in the garage…The boys set all this out here…in no...
I’m caught up!!!!
I’ve been unpacking boxes for two weeks and blending stuff in storage with what essentials we took to the rent house. Heck! If we survived without it for 18 months do we really need to keep that? Winnowing out a bunch of stuff for the daughter’s next garage sale.
The kitchen...
Folks around here crack open a persimmon seed. They say the shape inside the seed determines the winter weather forecast…a spoon means shoveling snow, a knife means bitter cold and a fork means a mild winter.