1sweed's blog

As some of you might know I am trying to improve my over-all well being, by trying to lose some weight and lower my bad LDL levels in my bloodwork. So far I have managed to stop the constant cravings for sugary products and also stop cravings for other no no's by eating a higher protein diet.

I start my mornings with a small bowl of oatmeal with fruit and coffee with stevi instead of sugar.
For lunch I eat healthy sandwich or salad, with glass of water or unsweetned juice.

Whew! I am busy today. First I started doing some really good cleaning out. I love books, but as you might know they have this way of piling up. You buy them or they are given to the household and before long the house starts to look like a library.

Tons of books and many on subjects they you really have no time to study or read, and so they become extra clutter. Today I am cleaning out the clutter. Are you like me when it comes to cleaning house? Do you like to find someone in need of something instead of just throwing the stuff out to the goodwill store?

This day was special because it is fall here and the leaves are so beautiful this year. It reminds me of when I was young and walked these same streets jumping into and wading through mountains of red and yellow, gold and brown leaves. I feel at home here now, where as a kid I never felt welcome.

I don't like looking back at my childhood, as it was not a happy one. I was a sad and lonely child, and it seems strange now that so many of the ones who did not want to know me when I was young, now are trying to be my friend.

Reason:
Now what does that mean? Well most times when we are on a forum and our wording or link additions get deleted we never know why. It is just gone and we don't understand and sometimes we are just plain mad. That is the reason for this special blog post.

I think of each one of you on this site as a new friend. after all we share the same symptoms and strange pains, and yet we are different in many ways, which is a good thing.

Some folks think wouldn't it be great if we were all alike. What a boring world that would be, no one to share a thought with or exchange opinions. We would always be in agreement on everything and not even know why and have no feelings to vent. lol

These last weeks have been very busy with garden work. My garden did well and supplied me with an array of produce mostly in the salad department. I had planted cherry tomatoes and was blessed with a truckload. More tomatoes then I knew what to do with. Then I started looking up recipes that I could make to use them up, like spagetti sauce and stewed tomatoes, that worked well for the ripe ones but I had many more green ones that needed to be used for something quickly, anything at all would do.

I am so very tired. That is a strange way to start a blog post, but these last few weeks have been maddening while I race from one task to the next.

I call it racing, but dragging would be a better term. Everything is happening at once and as you who have fibro know that is not a good thing.
It is canning season now, but in the last few weeks it was berry picking time. I picked blueberries and blackberries, then got rhurbarb. Then picked a few more blackberries.

Today was a beautiful day, after a week of very chilly weather. the sun was shining and the slight breeze was warm. It was a good day.

The weather of late has been beautiful and I have been using my photography talents to create beautiful photo's of wildlife for note cards and maybe a few teeshirts & mugs.

Baby fawns are so cute and funny. They come in my backyard to eat fallen apples and romp and play silly games like young children. I enjoy the wild creatures.

This has been a long week for me. The weather has been hot and muggy, and although twice today there was threat of rain, rain did not come. I hope it comes soon to lower the heat 90+ and humity levels, as well as, water my garden.