Sooner or Later

I'd hoped to write a decent post tonight, but I'm feeling decidedly tired. How sad that I'm thinking about bed at 7.30pm on a Saturday night!

Maybe it was the hour long walk along the beach this afternoon?

So I will share with you, my third photo for the B&W 5 day challenge on facebook ...

... and now I have some kitchen debris to clean up after dinner, that's if I can stay awake long enough!

I have a few photos of the baby Tawny Frogmouth to share tomorrow, so watch this space.

Nite all.

Last but not Least

Here is the final episode of The Truth About Cancer series. It's not on youtube and you only have 48 hours to watch it from this link.

This episode is full of interviews with survivors of colon, breast, kidney, testicular, lung cancer etc., who have used either a combination of conventional cancer treatments with natural therapies, or they have only used some form of natural therapy.

It's very interesting to hear their stories.

So I thought I would post this a little earlier than usual, so that you have a chance to watch the final episode before it's removed from the free watch site.

I will do another post later this evening, separate to this one.

See ya later.

TGIF

It's been a great day!

I got to spend time with a woman who has a very similar belief system as me, as far as health, nutrition and mental/emotional/psychological health is concerned. We spent about an hour together this morning, maybe more, and we will definitely spend more time together in the future.

She lent me a book, which I began to read today, but I realised that nothing else would get done if I continued, so I put it down and plan on looking at it again tomorrow.

I can't wait to talk more with her!

I've watched some great videos on Youtube today regarding the Lymph system, cancer treatments, Parkinson's treatments and so much more ... I have bookmarked the last page that I looked at so that I can continue in the coming days.

So much to learn!!

Yesterday, I was invited, by The Best Cousin in the World, to participate in a B&W photography challenge on Facebook. Here are my first two submissions ...

Meanwhile, here is Episode 10 of The Truth About Cancer ..



Now it's bed time, so I'm off!

Nite all.

Movie Solo

Today, Adoring Husband had to go into The Bay to run some errands, so I decided to go for a ride with him and had him drop me off at the cinema to be picked up a couple of hours later.

I went to the movies alone.

Because of the Parkinson's Disease, Adoring Husband struggles to sit through a movie for a couple of hours. There is no support for his head and neck in the cinema seats, so the tremor puts a lot of stress in that area, causing him some pain afterwards.

I imagine that for any other couple, this might be a problem, but luckily for us, I really enjoy going to the movies solo!

Today, I saw the movie "Tammy" starring Melissa McCarthy and Susan Sarandon. There were quite a few other big names in it too. Kathy Bates, Allison Janney, Dan Aykroyd, Toni Collette and Sandra Oh.

I quite enjoyed it, but I suggest that you don't go rushing out to see it. It's one that you can wait to watch on dvd in the comfort of your own lounge room.

Episode 9 of The Truth About Cancer ... (it's so nice to know that some of you are watching these!)



Now I have to give Adoring Husband a neck and shoulder massage ... because I love him :)

Nite all.

Waiting for the Heat

Apparently there is a heat wave heading in this direction, and in a few days, our temperatures are going to soar over 30C - which to any of you living inland, may seem like a reasonable temperature, but on the coast, with the humidity - it's really quite an oppressive heat.

I've so enjoyed our mid twenty temperatures of the last few weeks and the lovely cool nights with the breeze blowing directly through our bedroom window. I guess it had to come to an end eventually.

The boys at The Seat of Knowledge were excited and amused to see the photos of themselves that I posted here yesterday and I made sure I showed as many local people as possible, including The Little Gnome's female neighbour, who had a good giggle.

Very tempting to pin the photo in the local notice board, perhaps with a note attached, 'for a good time call ... ' but then maybe not lol.

Not much to report today, but here is episode 8 of the series The Truth About Cancer ...

The first doctor who talks, Dr Nicholas Gonzales, is an amazing and highly intelligent man, but he talks very very fast. It's almost like his mind is so full and overflowing with information that he can't get it out fast enough! He had me in awe and if you can keep up with what he is saying, you will learn a lot!

I took a lot of notes during this episode!



It's heading fast toward midnight so I'm outta here.

Nite all.

Days Alive

Today, on his birthday, Adoring Husband has been alive for 20,819 days.

I have been alive for 19,904 days.

That's quite a lot isn't it? I've never really thought about it, but I was expecting the number to be higher.

Anyway, we should make each day count.

The bakathon began this morning ...

This cake took quite a while to make and has a LOT of ingredients.  I had to make my own date paste by soaking dates for some time in hot water and then whizzing in the blender until it became a creamy paste.

Ingredients include zucchini, walnuts, avocado, eggs, coconut flour, tapioca flour, almond flour, cream of tartare, bicarb soda, raw cacao powder, honey, vanilla extract, date paste, to name a few.

A syrup made of honey, water and coffee was brushed over each layer of the cake before the icing was added. The icing included avocado, date paste, honey, cacao powder, coconut cream, coconut oil and salt.

I actually added some whipped cream and blueberries to this, but forgot to take a photo!

Adoring Husband enjoyed a very large slice and it was similar to a brownie on the outside and then soft and moist in the middle. I liked it very much, but it was very rich .. I certainly couldn't eat a piece as big as the one AH ate!

AH spent his birthday working on the front garden, which I must say, is looking much better than it has for quite some time. There is still a little more to do there, and next he has to get the veggie garden moving out the back.

I picked a very large bucket of cherry tomatoes from the garden today, most of which, I think will go into the dehydrator for semi-dried tomatoes. The asparagus is still producing nicely too, but the lovely laying chooks have slowed down a little.

This month, our flickr group challenge is themed 'Odd One Out', so my boys at The Seat of Knowledge helped me out with this little number.

and of course, I had to get a shot like this, for future bribery and corruption purposes.

Believe me, the photo looks much better than the reality of it!!

That's about it for my day .. aside from a really nice morning tea with Lady Lynn. Everybody else was busy with life today, so we met early for a coffee together. I really enjoyed our short time together.

Here is Episode Seven of 'The Truth About Cancer' for your viewing pleasure ...



Nite all.

Happy Birthday Adoring Husband

First and most importantly ... HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADORING HUSBAND!!

Let's see what the day brings!

Birthdays for AH are very tricky. This is the man who has everything. This is the man who buys what he wants as soon as he wants it. This leaves little for the rest of us to consider.

We once passed a rule that he wasn't allowed to buy anything for himself for the last 3 months of the year .. so that we had a chance to get something that he wanted for his birthday and Christmas.

I think that rule only lasted one year .. he just couldn't control himself for that long.

So material gifts are not really an option, unless it's a fun gift that has a special meaning behind it.

I just have to find a way for AH to feel as much love as possible during the waking hours of his birthday and hope that he feels special!

I bet this is how he really feels today .. instead of his 57 years.

I was hoping that he would go to bed at a reasonable hour tonight so that I could spend a few hours in the kitchen and prepare some party food for tomorrow .. but as Murphy's Law dictates .. it just didn't happen.

Now I am rethinking my strategy.

Here is Episode 7 of 'The Truth About Cancer'

A warning before you watch this one .. there are a couple of short parts during this video where the doctors either talk REALLY fast, so they are difficult to understand, or they use jargon and medical terminology that might leave you a bit confused.

Don't give up. Try to push through it because those parts are only short and the video is still full of important health promoting information.



Time for me to at least attempt to make a birthday cake!

Nite all.

Another Lazy Sunday

The usual start to the day, although a bit late because I slept in.

The lovely Spring weather was welcoming and the river was a vibrant blue as the tide came in .. apparently, I was 30 minutes late for a pod of dolphins that swam up river close to the Seat of Knowledge! How disappointing! I will attempt to get there earlier tomorrow morning, because today was the second day in a row that they've appeared. Third time lucky for me I hope.

On my way home from coffee, I stopped to buy some fresh cooked sand crabs. My timing was perfect because they only had 6 small crabs left.  I paid for 4 of them and he gave me the last two for free!

I spent the first hour after I got home, shelling crab. Ugh. That was a job and a half.

So Adoring Husband made egg rolls for lunch and we filled them with baby spinach leaves, raw onion and crab meat. Perfectly delicious lunch.

The rest of my Sunday, I spent lazing on the couch, sometimes dozing and watching trashy TV shows and a Leonardo Di Caprio movie. My favourite kind of Sunday.

We had Crispy Skinned Salmon for dinner with a hearty salad full of organic goodness splashed with balsamic vinegar and sprinkled with feta cheese.

We tried a fabulous new dessert. Dark Chocolate n Berry Mousse.

Ingredients:

• 2 Medium avocados - flesh removed.
• 1 Cup baby spinach roughly chopped.
• 1 Punnet of fresh raspberries (I only had strawberries and blueberries).
• 1/4 raw cacao powder.
• 2 tsp vanilla extract.
• 1/4 cup maple syrup.
• 1/3 cup full fat coconut cream.
• 50g dark chocolate.
• Chopped nuts .. I used macadamias.

Directions:

Melt the chocolate in a double saucepan and set aside.

Combine avocados, baby spinach, cacao powder, vanilla extract, maple syrup and coconut cream and process in a food processor. Slowly add in the melted chocolate and continue to process.

Chop the strawberries (or whatever fruit you choose) and then fold through the mousse.

Set in the fridge for about 20-30 minutes and then serve with fruit on top and a sprinkling of chopped nuts.

For more healthful recipes go to I Quit Sugar where you'll find lot's of yummy stuff to choose from.

Here is Episode Five of The Truth About Cancer.

I just want to say that even though these hour long episodes fall under the title The Truth About Cancer, everything that they talk about is what I deeply believe about health and nutrition and healing the body from the inside out. Not just healing cancer, but any number of health issues from heart disease, diabetes, blood pressure problems, thyroid conditions, arthritis, eczema, asthma etc.

Covering things like hydration, sunshine, sugar, gluten, juicing, vitamins, minerals, herbs, toxins and detoxing, stress and emotions, the benefits of fasting, aspartame, the immune system, just to name a few!

I hope you can find the time to watch these shows because you will learn a lot and I know you will experience some light bulb moments.



That's about it from me.

Nite all.