Nice to see you!

Three major events occurred for me last year (2010), all in the space of about 2 weeks. I turned 50. The following day I got married. Two weeks later, my oldest daughter became pregnant with her first child and my first grandchild.

Most middle-aged people will tell you that in their minds, they still feel 20 something. It's the same for me.

Wasn't it only yesterday that I was planning a night out with guys from the surf club? That gorgeous new perm. Flaired, cuffed denims and the red t-shirt with the off-the-shoulder frill. Corked platform wedgies. **sigh**

Suddenly I'm looking in the mirror and wondering how 30 years can flash by so damned quickly!

So here I am in cyberspace, sharing my genuine shock and horror with anyone who'll listen and maybe I'll even meet some other over 50s who find themselves in the same predicament!

Welcome to my dilemna!!

Friday, November 7, 2014

Everybody Loves Snakes

Well, my little Tawnies have left the nest, and while I was photographing them, I heard a yell from across the road.

It was a friend asking me if I'd like to photograph a snake.

So I high-tailed it across the road to find a stunningly beautiful python in an empty garbage bin.

The man who owns the house, has a row of inter-connected aviaries in his backyard where his mother used to breed cockatiels (this is where we bought OB, the crazy bird that we got as a friend for SEB). His Mum passed away a couple of months ago and now he is continuing on with her hobby.

He wondered why the birds were disappearing. They had reduced from around 40 to just 8!

So he went searching through the aviaries today and discovered this beauty hiding up high in one corner and very well hidden.




So we took it out of town to relocate it in some bushland beside a lake.

Beautiful creature.

Tomorrow, Adoring Husband and I are travelling by train down to Brisbane to meet with a new Specialist about his Parkinson's.

We gave up on the Neurologist in Bundaberg. In two years, he hasn't provided any comfort, nor has he eased any of the symptoms. The medications that he has prescribed have been more trouble than they were worth with horrible side effects and beyond that, he has offered no other hope. Besides that, he wasn't at all friendly or encouraging and had a very abrupt bedside manner.

The Neurologist in Brisbane has a very good reputation and is, apparently, the top of his field, so we have high hopes of getting some satisfaction from him.

It's going to be a big day, so I need to get some sleep.

Nite all.

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Dateless Date

Adoring Husband and I decided, while sitting at the Seat of Knowledge this morning, to go to the movies.

We had to go into town for shopping, an appointment with the doctor and to get dog and chook food, so we drove in early and each saw a 9.30am movie.

Adoring Husband saw the movie "Interstellar" starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway which ran for almost 3 hours.

At the end, he described it as long, boring and convoluted but intriguing. He was disappointed.

I chose to see "This is Where I Leave You" starring Jane Fonda, Jason Bateman and Tina Fey.

I loved it.

It was funny in parts, heartwarming, heart wrenching and intense. I could relate so well to this dysfunctional family, who with all their faults and frailties, loved and cared about each other, but just didn't know how to express that love in a healthy way. By the end of the movie, I grew to love each one of them and wished that I could give them all a hug.

I recommend it and I'll be buying it on dvd when it's released.

I had an hour to spare after my movie finished, so I got to do some shopping while I waited for AH to come out of his movie.

I bought an Adam Sandler movie and a little gift for my Chicklet.

While AH went to his doctor's (not his usual doctor, where I have to be his bodyguard) appointment, I got to spend some time at the shopping mall, where I had a little bit of a spending spree, buying myself four tops, a pair of shorts and some cheap jewellery. I also got some books and clothes for Chicklet.

Then we picked up our organic FROG box and arrived home at about 4.30pm.

It was a long, but very enjoyable day.

Then to top it off, a pretty sunset that I photographed over the lagoon.


Nite all.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Finely Tuned

This is what I've learned recently ...

The body has cancer cells within it 'all the time' and the healthy immune system clears them and fights them and keeps you healthy. If you have a poor diet and lifestyle, then the immune system becomes exhausted from trying to keep you healthy.

In some cases, a tumour is created by the exhausted immune system.  It is effectively building a wall around the cancer cells to keep it under control until the exhaustion passes, but if your diet and lifestyle doesn't change, then your immune system will remain exhausted and the wall cannot hold the cancerous cells for very long.

The human body is finely tuned and has the power to heal itself .. a broken bone, a cold/flu, an infection, tumours/cancer etc. As long as you provide it with what it needs, such as exercise, breathing oxygen efficiently, vitamin D from the sun, vitamins and nutrients from food, good mental and emotional health, good quality sleep, enough clean filtered water to name a few.

Along with these very important needs, we must remove as many toxins from our lives as we can,  to make it as easy as possible for our immune system to build on our good health, instead of using all of it's time fighting our bad health.

Some brief examples of what we need to do:

Sunshine helps to heal all emotional and mental disorders, but you also need vitamin K to help absorb vitamin D properly, which you will find in lots of vegetables. Most people with chronic illness also have a chronic vitamin D deficiency.

Stop eating sugar. Sugar feeds cancer. Physicians should know that sugar feeds cancer. The reason they should know is because PET scans use sugar to locate the cancer cells inside your body.

The acidity of your body needs to be above 7.  You can buy pH paper to test your own acidity.

Detoxifying. Liver detox is important. The reason we detox, is because the cancerous cells have to be removed somehow and the safest and least invasive way is with detoxification through juices, lymphatic drainages, coffee enemas, hyperthermia etc.

Additionally, your brain can't work when there are deficiencies in your body. Even one deficiency can create havoc with your brain.

There are many different cancer treatments, and the most common is chemotherapy.

Chemotherapy doesn't just kill cancer cells, it kills the good cells that we need and it destroys our immune system, which then can't fight other diseases. This is why people easily get sick with other illnesses like pneumonia, colds/flus, infections, diarrhoea, ulcers etc., during treatment. This is also why people die from the cancer treatment, rather than from the cancer itself.

So if you choose chemotherapy as your cancer treatment, you also have to work very hard, at the same time, on all of the other things that I have mentioned, so that your immune system is strong enough to help your body heal and to fight off the germs that other people want to pass on to you.

Without a healthy and strong immune system, there is little hope!

Don't wait until you're sick before you work on your immune system. Do everything in your power to keep it strong, because if it's working perfectly, you simply cannot get sick.

Once upon a time, doctors knew this important fact, but unfortunately, now they only understand how to manage ill health with any number of medications.

With so many toxins in our lives these days (even the carpets on our floors, the paint on our walls and the plastics and glues in our furnishings), it's impossible to live a toxin free life, so the best we can do is build and strengthen our immune system to keep us happy and healthy and strong.

That is what I have learned.

Nite all.


Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Living the Syndrome

What is boiled frog syndrome?

It's based on the premise that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death without moving.

Are we the boiled frogs?

With the daily burden of chemicals in our food, air, water, personal care products, household products and furnishings, combined with malnourishment through diets composed mainly of processed and “dead” foods, we end up engineering a slow but sure death of cells in our body.

This leads directly to a breaking point that results in disease processes that invoke ageing, pain, illness and other forms of suffering.

Most people call it “getting older”, but I believe we are actually “becoming toxic and malnourished”. There’s a big difference and this is why our body breaks down as it does and we complain about getting old.

On top of this, we all have psychological issues that we have never resolved, and which manifest in our subconscious and eventually affect us in some physical way.

So, for many of us, no amount of healthy living will cure our ills because we have this psychological blockage that stops the healing process.

The human body is so complex and so brilliant, working to keep us alive and healthy, while we abuse the life out of it or treat it with disrespectful neglect until it just can't cope anymore because we are not giving it the resources it needs to thrive. 

A healthy immune system is the only thing that keeps us from death, but we do so little to nourish it or to understand it.

I wish that I had cared enough to understand this concept years ago, but then, the rules for, and scientific knowledge of health, have changed considerably just in the last 5 years, so maybe my timing is just right!

With that out of the way, I will stop with the health talk and share my Tawny photos ...



The second photo was the little chick watching me leave as I walked under the nest. How cute is that?

It was Melbourne Cup day today. The race that stops the nation.

Adoring Husband and I sat on our couch, put some money into an online betting account and watched the races on TV. We lost our money, but it was a bit of fun and I made healthy snacks for us to munch on and we didn't have to dress up or watch fashion parades.

Almost midnight again.

Nite all.

Monday, November 3, 2014

He's Back!

Adoring Husband has returned from Brisbane with excellent results from his health check surgery.

He has the 'all clear' but has to return in 3 months for a further check up .. how else would the specialist make enough money to pay for his high rise office and his house on the water and his world trips? But don't get me started!

It's good to have him home knowing that he is healthy.

I was also happy to hear about his conversation with the barista who served him when he bought his first coffee since his health scare 3 months ago.

She asked if he wanted sugar and when he replied 'no thanks' she responded how nice it was to serve someone who didn't want that poison in his coffee! They then talked about different sugar alternatives and he told her about coconut sugar.

Was that really my husband having that conversation?

Crikey! He has come a long way!

I have to thank my little brother for being there in our moment of need. When the hospital wouldn't allow AH to leave the hospital unless he had someone to escort him, my LB and his friend drove an hour to the hospital to sign him out and then drove him to the train station. Otherwise AH would have had to stay an extra night in the hospital.

We also must thank Happy Harry for driving all the way to Howard to pick AH up from the train station late at night. It's a big ask at such a late hour and we appreciate your good soul. Karma will reward you by bringing good health and happiness in abundance. Thank you.

So we are happy and feeling the love. Harmony has returned and life as we know it is balanced again.

Nite all (those Tawny photos still to come .. tomorrow)

Sunday, November 2, 2014

Stormy

We were hit with a pretty big storm tonight. It started with a few large hail stones and changed to very heavy rain (24mm in 30 minutes) with strong winds, lightning and cracking thunder.

It made the psychotic dogs even more psychotic than usual and they wouldn't settle down until I let them in on the couch, where they all huddled quietly together until it passed.

The storm was bad enough to trigger a little PTS in me and I was relieved when it passed without incident, although it's difficult to tell in the dark if there is any damage to the solar panels on the roof. It will be easier to tell in the light of day tomorrow.

Adoring Husband is in Brisbane tonight and will make his way into the hospital early tomorrow morning for the follow up tests on his bladder and prostate.

I went for a ride before lunch and it was incredibly windy down by the water, so I wasn't out for long, and that is the extent of my day.

I took some photos of the Tawnies and you will be surprised at how much they have already grown! I'll post them tomorrow.

Nite all.

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Food Delights

I cooked a lamb rack for dinner tonight accompanied with potato, pumpkin, carrot, asparagus and kale.

I seared the lamb rack in very hot coconut oil in my cast iron frypan, then lay it on a bed of fresh rosemary, chopped garlic and thick slices of onion. I baked it in a hot oven for 30 minutes.

I chopped the potatoes, pumpkin and carrot into evenly sized pieces and coated them in a mixture of cumin, turmeric, chilli powder, salt, lime juice and coconut oil, then lay them on a tray covered in baking paper and baked them in the oven at 180C. They took about 45 minutes turning them once.

The asparagus were blanched in boiling water, butter and garlic.

I tore the kale into small pieces, then rubbed the leftover coconut oil mixture into the leaves and put them in a low oven (120C) for an hour, to make kale chips.

It was all so delicious, I could have eaten a second helping!

Lunch was home made gf garlic toast with tomato and cheese melted over the top.

Watermelon for afternoon tea.

I think I'm about to have some red papaya, strawberries and banana for dessert.


Adoring Husband and I had a fairly productive morning around the house, but by lunch time I was well and truly spent and needed a nana nap right after lunch!

It has been a very lazy afternoon.




Only one more day of rest before the study begins. Time to activate the brain again.


Nite all.

Friday, October 31, 2014

Something New

A quick and easy Friday night post of my favourite quotes found in facebook this week.






... and just because it's Halloween. I am totally against Halloween, which is an American tradition that Australian business and media have cashed in on ...



Last year, we were not at all prepared for Halloween and had to turn away children knocking on our door. This year, I bought some sugar filled crap to dish out to them, which really goes against the grain. Next year, if I'm on the ball, I can make some healthful sweets and cakes to hand out instead!

Nite all.

PS Just want to acknowledge Jamie's birthday. He would have been 36 today.


Thursday, October 30, 2014

Welcome to the World

What luck!

Today, I went to check the second nest and saw some movement! This is what I found ..


So there are at least two chicks there, possibly three, but only time will tell. It's very exciting! For me anyway.

I attempted to give one of the psychotic dogs a hair cut this morning but she was cranky and horrible, so the job didn't get finished.

My second text book arrived today, so now I can officially begin studying! The book looks incredibly intimidating, to say the least, but I'm pretty excited about what's next to learn.

Today, I've started a health journal for myself, and am in the process of setting one up for Adoring Husband, so that he can document the 'possible' healing journey that we are about to embark upon.

Finally, this afternoon, I rode down to the river because the soft cloud was looking promising for a pretty sunset. Unfortunately, as often happens to our sunsets, a bank of cloud appeared from the West and snuffed the sun, so I rode home the long way, just so that I could enjoy the lovely evening light.

Adoring Husband had SES training tonight, so it's been very quiet here on the home front.

I'm trying for an early night, so ...

Nite all.

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Surprise!!

I have had suspicions for some time that there might be two chicks in the Tawny nest, but two days ago, I conceded that I was wrong and there must only be one.

It seemed to me that each day, the chick looked a bit different. Some days it seemed too small and some days it's eyes seemed smaller and darker, but then I thought that maybe the nest was quite small and it just depended on what position in the nest that she was situated on any particular day.

So today, as I was trespassing to get my morning shot of the Tawny family, I climbed the stairs to the house (which is an empty holiday rental property) so that I could get a better angle and was taking photos for about ten minutes, and just about to return to my trike, when I saw movement to the left of the chick.

This little clump of feathers appeared from under the parent Tawny and suddenly he opened his eyes and looked at me!


How adorable is he!? Quite a bit smaller than his sibling and he has a bit of a grumpy face, but still very adorable.

I was so excited, I was talking to them in a very high pitched voice (which might explain the weird looks on their faces!). Looking forward to searching them both out every morning now.

The other nest that I've been watching is still pretty quiet, although the parent Tawny is sitting much higher, or taller, in the nest, so I think the eggs have hatched and now it's just a matter of time before they poke their little white faces out to take a look at the world.

I'm checking them every day.

I had a nice lunch with the ladies today. There were about 15 of us. The food was pretty average, but the wine was good and the company was excellent.

Next month, we are taking the river boat across the river to have lunch at the Woodgate Bowls Club. I've already booked and paid for my spot, so I'm IN!

Nite all.


Tuesday, October 28, 2014

The Dealer

Adoring Husband and I visited The Dealer today.

I call his doctor 'The Dealer' because every time AH has an appointment, he comes home with a new prescription for another drug.

The Dealer, again, called me The Bodyguard when we walked into his surgery, and I plan on being the 'ever present' bodyguard forever more!

He suggested another drug today (just like last time) and even drew a lovely little diagram with a graph and percentages to try to convince us how successful this drug would be.

The calculations which he attempted to construct in his head, were not convincing, and I don't think he was convinced either. There was a bit of babbling going on.

So, we left with an appointment card for AH to see someone else about some helpful exercises that he will need, to improve parts of his health (in place of the drugs).

'Apparently' there is nothing natural that we can do to improve this part of AH's health (I love how medical practitioners and specialists ALWAYS say that ... like they've EVER attempted anything natural!). 'Apparently' this is a natural ageing process that can only degenerate as he gets older.

We'll see about that.

Then we had a lovely time in AH's computer record, removing some medications from his list of 'active' drugs .. and there was a good number of them .. until there was just one left.

Can you see the beaming smile on my face? Can you hear my audible sigh of relief? Can you sense how proud I am of Adoring Husband for avoiding those toxic substances and attempting to allow his body to become strong enough to fight disease and illness in a more natural way?

There are still health issues (aside from his Parkinson's) that we have to address and I'm working on those issues as quickly as I can - my education as a process is intense and time consuming. There is just so much to learn and absorb, but I can see progress happening in my own head!

We will get there.

Tonight we had a few storms roll over us. Lots of noise and a hell of a light show with just a couple of short sharp showers. We could have done with some decent rain, but unfortunately that wasn't meant to be.



I hid inside the house until the storms were a LONG way from us, and I took these photos from my outdoor area with the camera pointed between a couple of houses.

The light show was impressive and I wish I was brave enough to set up the camera on the beach because THAT would have been gobsmackingly amazing!

As promised, dinner last night was this ...


The chicken breast (a recipe given to me a long time ago by Lady Lynn) was butterflied, pounded and then I rolled crumbled feta cheese, chopped sundried tomatoes, oven roasted pine nuts & almonds in it.

I placed the rolled chicken on a bed of sliced onion, sprinkled a combination of lime zest, thyme, oregano and minced garlic over the top, covered it with baking paper and baked it in a 180C oven for 45 mins, but I think it only needed 35 mins because it was a bit dry.

The cauliflower rice had toasted pine nuts, onion, chilli, lemon juice and coriander tossed through it.

The cucumber was thinly sliced, mixed with shallots and coriander and then soaked in lemon juice, balsamic vinegar, olive oil and cracked pepper.

You can see the leftover stuffing mixture from the chicken in the middle of the plate too.

I just want to end with my favourite quote from Winnie the Pooh.


Nite all.

Monday, October 27, 2014

Fuzzy

Here are the photos from yesterday that I promised.




The final photo for the facebook B&W challenge ..


Tonight I made Lime and Coriander Cauliflower Rice with Rolled Stuffed Chicken and Lemon Cucumber Salad.

The photos and recipes for that will be in tomorrow's post.

That is all!

Nite all.

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Sleepathon

Can you believe that I was in bed by 8pm last night?!

I got out of bed just before 8am this morning!

Unbelievable!!

The last time I did that, was a few months ago, when I arrived home one Friday night from the Bowls Club very drunk and fell unconscious on the bed at about 7.30pm .. but I did wake up at about 1am and spent a good deal of time in the bathroom before collapsing on the bed again a couple of hours later.

Last night, I was very sober, and I woke up at midnight, got out of bed to find Adoring Husband sound asleep in his recliner lounge chair, so I returned to my bed and immediately fell right back to sleep.

It's been a LOT of years since I was able to sleep that many hours in one night and I certainly felt very good for it this morning.

My B&W photo for day 4 of the facebook challenge ...


... and our little Tawny chick continues to grow bigger every day ...


I had a very social morning today and didn't arrive home until lunch time. During my socialising, I got some great photos of a little Wattlebird chick sleeping in it's nest and then a couple of Pale Headed Rosellas eating buds from a Bottlebrush tree, which I will share with you tomorrow.

After crunching through some sand crab for lunch, my afternoon was very quiet. No cooking. No cleaning. Nothing exciting. No visitors.

A little bit of study and research on gallbladders and how they work when they're healthy and when they're not so healthy. There is always something new to learn about the human body and all the bits that make it up. Loving it.

So now I'm off to bed for my usual midnight sleep time.

Nite all.


Saturday, October 25, 2014

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.

Friday, October 24, 2014

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.

Thursday, October 23, 2014

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.

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

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.

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

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.

Monday, October 20, 2014

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.