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| An assortment of eggs my friend's chickens provided for me. I used 4 of the bantam eggs, tiny, for an omelet |
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| new watercolor for my flower room |
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| my hair dresser's chickens Alas only the big black hen is old enough to produce eggs. My friend's Labrador saved her from a fox who was carrying her away. My friend sewed up her wounds and she is fine now |
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| She hangs in our doorway for now but will go out on the porch. any motion near her sets off a hideous scream |
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New hand blown glass bowl. Orange and blue.
On a bright sunny day, I drove through fall colors and two alpaca farms out in the country to finally get my hair cut and colored. In the past, I have been provided with fresh eggs from my hair dresser's chickens but fox , eagles and hawk decimated her old flock. She bought another dozen chicks last spring. soon they will be laying eggs though she thinks one might be a rooster.
There was a gap of time between my hair appointment and my cooking class. Do I drive all the way home and then half way back for the class? nope. I went out to eat by myself, a rarity. I hadn't had sushi in a while. Then on to a few resale shops. I am getting much more selective these days. I toyed with getting a beautiful wool rug covered with orange calla lilies that would look better in my living room than the Art Van special I have. But the other color in the rug was green, not blue. I did get the glass, a folk angel hanging in my kitchen and some jeans marketed by a clothing pyramid scheme for $110 new but in the resale shop, $5.
Since my TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) tested low recently indicating that I was taking too much replacement hormone, which makes sense since I continued taking the same dose after losing more than a third of my body weight, I was asked to skip one dose a week. Maybe now it is too low as my heart beat is only 50bpm and I am feeling cold when normally I would not. My fingers are cold just hanging out in the house. I have to give it a few weeks before I am retested. I don't like this dose readjusting.
Cooking with herbs was the subject of our class. If you provide lots of flavor with herbs, perhaps you won't be tempted to add the dreaded salt I don't worry about salt myself as I assume I lose lots of it with all my exercise. Our instructor is a bit too accommodating to all the modifications demanded by some of my classmates. I understand that some have genuine allergies or that chemo causes their digestive system to be sensitive to spiciness but others are just big, whiny babies.
I see more and more deer on my runs. And now I come across a turkey flock near my house.
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3 comments:
That glass bowl is fantastic!
I’m interested in all the natural medical things you have on your blog. How interesting that you were a medicinal chemist and then ran into Cancer...and here you still are. To me the natural ways make more sense.
Love that glass.
My thyroid medication has only ever gone up. I had no idea that the requirements could go in the other direction. I hear you on the changing medication front. Never fun.
EC, I am guessing you need thyroid medication because of Hashimoto's in which the thyroid gradually dies so you keep requiring more and more thyroid. I had my thyroid destroyed so I was starting from no thyroid at all though I don't think I weighed that much more when I first needed thyroid medication. I assume since my body is so much smaller that now I need less. I am just afraid the doctor is erring in the wrong direction.
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