CLindz, congrats on the merge! love it when things work out smoothly!
lindz.
finished??? I've only gotten for my parents and my younger brother. I still have way too much to do!
nah, i'm happy for ya. and sure the kids will be very happy!
lol MC! I miss spending the afternoons with my gang. i worked til dark again. so dangerous to be delivering in the dark. even with flashing lights.
Celiac has been known about for many decades. but they thought it was rare, (1 in 30,000, when it's really 1 in 122) so it was unheard of by the gen pop, and certainly there was no special preprepared food like today. in the 1940's-1950's more documentation was made about "Celiac Babies" than ever before. we who have the condition, are all born with it. but a large percentage don't show signs or symptoms at birth. those that do
STINK! I'm not being mean here, it's a distinctive smell, like seriously rotting fermented fruit. I was not a Celiac Baby. I would have been of the percentage who showed first symptoms in my 3rd - 6th decade of life. I had symptoms when I was younger - symptoms that they now know for a fact indicate Celiac, but they didn't know this stuff in the 70's... but I got severe food poisoning in my 20's. bad clams. E Coli and Hep B. took me 7 months to recover, but I did - I beat the Hep and have anitbodies which makes me immune. phew. anyway, because of the food poisoning, the Celiac activated years early. it took a very long time to figure out what was wrong. I got food poisoning in summer 1988 and learned about Celiac in winter 1991 The packaged food was a curse worse than the disease. I just went without until I met old BH. He convinced me that in all the years that i'd gone without... it was more prevalent and talked about, certainly improvements had to have been gained... so I started trying stuff. some was just dreadful still, and some was unbelievably unrecognizable from it's gluten counterpart. Funny, old BH is out and I've kind of retreated to my old ways... I don't remember to buy the bread (or I just won't pay $7 for a half size loaf...) I didn't eat bread for almost 20 years... no biggie.
taking another zero for the egg count today... I'm sure the waterers froze by 3. it makes me sad that so one is here to make sure they get fresh water if I'm stuck working late, or to give them a snack... (not sad for me - with the exception of Mylee, I don't want company. I'm too grouchy and set in my ways. sad for my cluck clucks... yes. I need a chicken nanny.
