The Laziness Continues

Another cold, wet and windy day where I stayed in bed longer than I should have .. although there was nothing on my agenda, so staying in bed was the most enjoyable option.

I am not a Pluviophile.

Which is not to say that I don't enjoy the rain sometimes, but I certainly do not find joy and peace of mind during a rainy day.

I had to get up twice to answer our front door. Once for the Girl Guides selling raffle tickets and once for a neighbour asking if I knew of any Justices of the Peace in town.

That was annoying, because nobody ever knocks on our front door, and I was very warm and comfortable in bed!

Adoring Husband made his way to the SES shed early this morning to attempt to erect a tower - yes in this dreadful weather - and they didn't quite finish the job, but he did bring me coffee before he left the house. Thank you darling :)

Aside from that, I boiled a dozen eggs to make a paleo version of devilled eggs tomorrow and I cut up a big fillet of Snapper into fish fingers and crumbed them to have with home made chips and salad for dinner.

I swapped produce with my neighbours yesterday and today. My next door neighbour gave me a lettuce out of his garden and I gave him 8 eggs. My rear neighbour gave me a couple of handfuls of cherry tomatoes and I gave him 6 eggs straight from the chook pen.

Adoring Husband ate the last of the chocolate zucchini cupcakes, so I have to make something tomorrow to replace them. I also have to make his special breakfast cereal.

After AH arrived home this afternoon, we sat down in front of the TV with our lunch and watched a good old movie made in 1963, starring Doris Day and James Garner, called "Move Over Darling". I love Doris Day.

I found a couple of nice quotes on facebook today.

All things going to plan I should be able to share a recipe or two with you tomorrow.

Meanwhile, you know the drill.

Nite all.

Care Factor

It's been a lazy day of doing bugger all.

Adoring Husband snuck into the bedroom and left my coffee on the bedside table this morning, but I must have woken soon after because the coffee was still very hot when I took my first mouthful.

So I was awake just after 7am and then I lay in bed with my iPad until after 9.30am!!!!!!

The day was cold and wet and windy, so there was certainly no rush to get out of bed and we had nothing planned for the day, so I savoured the deliciousness of a lazy morning in bed.

It wasn't that long ago that I couldn't stay in bed for more than 5 or 6 hours because my back was just too painful, but since my change of diet, the only time my back really gives me a hard time, is when I spend hours either doing housework or cooking in the kitchen with bare feet on the tiles.

I try to wear slippers or rubber thongs when I do either of those two things and my back is fine.

We had a delicious salad with chilli garlic prawns for lunch and then the same salad with crispy skinned salmon for dinner.

I'm off to bed now after watching a great game of football where Manly lost.

Manly is my least favourite team of all time and I so enjoy watching them lose. My favourite is when my team, the Broncos, beat them, but a close second is when ANY other team beats them. Unfortunately, my little sister supports Manly. Also unfortunately, I tipped Manly in the footy tipping comp this week because I was certain that they would beat Parramatta. On the plus side, everybody else tipped them too, so it won't make a difference to anyone on the ladder.

Happy Friday night and Happy Weekend everybody :)

Nite all

Patchy Poitier

I'm watching an old movie. One of my favourites. Made in 1965 and starring Sidney Poitier and Shelley Winters. It's called "A Patch of Blue".

I think I was about 10 yrs old the first time I watched it, and I've seen it about ten times.

A Patch of Blue

The second part to Catalyst was on tonight too.  Here is the link if you missed it. I haven't watched it myself yet. I think I'll save it for tomorrow, when I can take my time and enjoy it.

I used up all of my old vegetables from the fridge to day, to make a spaghetti sauce.

It had fresh tomatoes, celery, onion, carrot, garlic, zucchini, roasted capsicum, spinach, home made chicken stock, chilli, pork and chicken mince.

It was a long process but very enjoyable for me to spend time in the kitchen. I made enough for tonight's dinner and three more meals which I've frozen for Adoring Husband to use when I go away in September.

I've baked a whole sweet potato in it's jacket too, which I'll use to make sweet potato salmon patties for lunch tomorrow. It's a new recipe that I haven't tried yet.

The weather has turned quite chilly again and there is a strong cool breeze blowing through our front windows. I love it when the breeze blows in that direction. I leave our bedroom windows open and snuggle right under the doona. Perfect sleeping weather.

Well, I'd love to stay up and watch all of this movie, but it doesn't finish til midnight and we all know my new sleeping rule...

... so nite all.

Worked It

A day of house cleaning.

Checklist:

• 2 x bathrooms
• 2 x toilets
• Front porch cleaned
• Front door washed
• Entry Hall dusted and mopped
• Hallway and laundry mopped
• TV cabinet dusted
• 4 loads of washing
• Plants watered
• Chocolate Cupcakes baked and iced
• Almost 3,000 emails deleted
• Dinner Cooked
• Body hurting very much due to working in bare feet on floor tiles. Ugh!

That's only half of what needs to be done. I'm hoping that I will wake tomorrow with equal motivation so that I can finish the other half of the house.

I just need to order my coffee early .. if Adoring Husband can bring me my coffee in bed, the way he did this morning, then I can jump out of bed with vim and vigour and zip through the rest of the work with a flourish!

It's 11pm and time to climb into bed for some rejuvenating sleep.

Nite all.

Gut Reaction

In case you missed the ABC program, Catalyst, this week ...

Catalyst - Gut Reaction Part 1

There is a lot of information here that was part of my course studies this semester, and a lot of extra information here, that is new, so not included in any studies yet.

I find it amazing that it has taken more than 50 years for science to begin researching food and diet and how it relates to our health, to bring about positive change.

Medicine and Science have been rejecting Naturopathy and nutrition for so many years and essentially warning us all away from it, when this "apparently" new information is what Naturopathy has always promoted.

Finally Science is catching up .. or perhaps they are looking backwards at how we once lived and are realising that before fast food, junk food and strong medications and antibiotics took over our lives, we were actually at our healthiest.

I'm looking forward to next week and watching Part 2.

I took the opportunity today to catch up on a little housework. Because of my studies and Adoring Husband's health issues as well as visitors, the housekeeping has suffered somewhat, so we are taking the next couple of days to join forces and do a bit of Spring cleaning.

Now that I am on a study break, I'm going to take the time to get back to cooking again too.

I'm looking at better sleeping habits too .. that doesn't mean that I'm going to bed at 8pm with AH, but it DOES mean going to try getting to bed well before midnight!

Nite all.

Quiet on the Home Front

Bubbles and Knight in Shining Armour are home safensound after a flight that left The Bay about 40 minutes late and landed in a cold, wet and windy Sydney at about 3pm.

It's all quiet on the home front and the psychotic dogs are feeling very abandoned. For ten days, they've been either in somebody's arms or on somebody's bed ... now they have to adjust to their own beds again!

It might take a day or two to get back to normal.

I've been meaning to post a photo of the artwork that we bought at Eumundi last week. This is Bertie .. who is hanging beside my side of the bed, so she is the first thing I see when I wake in the mornings. She makes me feel very happy!

Finally, I thought you might like to see how healthy Adoring Husband is looking ...

Now I need sleep.

Nite all.

Sunday

It has been at least a couple of years since Adoring Husband and I attended the markets in the Bay, but we decided to take Bubbles and Knight in Shining Armour into the markets today.

We remembered the markets as being very big, with a hundred or more stalls ranging from fresh fruit and veg to jewellery to craft to plants and garden ornaments to bric-a-brac and much more.

We remembered the car park being difficult to navigate and always full to the brim.

We remembered that it took a couple of hours to stroll through the markets to see everything.

So we were looking forward to spending a leisurely couple of hours browsing.

How disappointed were we to discover maybe 15 stalls set up at the markets .. mostly fruit and veg. Apparently, according to the people running the markets, the bad weather from the day and night before, had frightened the other stall owners away.

Today was a glorious day with not a cloud in the sky.

I got a few fresh vegetables and then we drove to the Boat Club where we had some lunch, put $20 each in the pokies, followed that up with some shopping and then home in time to cook dinner.

A bit disappointing for a their final day here, but at least we got to spend it together.

Everyone is into bed early, ready for a reasonably early start morning tomorrow, so that's where I'm going now.

I have to say that I'm feeling pretty exhausted tonight.

Nite all.