Welcome June...!!! :-)

Susan Branch's Mini Calendar, make a lovely way to Welcome June...  :-)

Another gadget!  Which "Uncle A." has been wanting.  :-)  A French Press for a smaller afternoon cup of coffee.  We often watch "As Time Goes By," and they are always making coffee with a French Press.  So he wanted one, too.  -grin-   That's just the coffee cup, which comes with our dishes.  He wanted a different one, for his afternoon coffee, so we found one this morning.  We'll see how it "fits."  

Yes, we lead a very quiet life...  -gigggles-  When we can get *hepped-up* about Kitchen Gadgets!

When one can only eat Goat Cheese, one keeps looking for new and different kinds of it.  Found this Maple Chèvre.  Nice...  And there is also Goat Cheddar Cheese to be found.  That's got a *punch* to it!!!! 

Just some bubbles in the Bird Bath Fountain Pond, on a very hot afternoon...

And last but not least.....

Whoooo-hoooooo!  According to park rangers in New South Wales, Australia, dozens of giant, fluorescent pink slugs have been popping up on a mountaintop there.

Click here, to read!!!

I'm not a slug lover but!!!  Wow!  What a gorgeous addition to a garden?!?  -giggggle-

 

"Today Class, our lesson will be on Inflammation."

(Planting...)

"Today Class, our lesson will be on Inflammation."

When you and I are *bedeviled* by Allergies, we have Inflammation.  When you and I have Arthritis Pain, we have Inflammation.  When you and I have certain Gut Discomfort, we have Inflammation. 

My cold/allergies were so bad, that my doc gave me both Prednisone, and a diff Antibiotic.  Prednisone... Without going into all the medical reasons, one can simply say that Prendisone gets rid of Inflammation, in the body.

(Getting belt, to fix next door's vacuum cleaner...)

My Allergy/Cold symptoms are gone.

And my ARTHRITIS PAIN, is gone!

I can walk up and down stairs, without pain!  I can get up off the *pottie,* in one move.  Before, I had to rock back and forth, to get up the momentum, to get up.  (Too much info I know but...)  In the morning, I do not get up all stiff.

Magical!!!

 (Madagascar Pink Rice...)

But!!!

We can not continue to take Prednisone for long.  The *magic* will cease.  Our pains will return, if we continue to put food into our bodies, which cause Inflammation.

Why does our body make excess Inflammation?  I go with the theory that the processed, pesticide and anti-biotic ridden food, we consume...  Does.  The body becomes almost overwhelmed with trying to eliminate all this "shit," and we get Inflammation, in the process.

Being able to eat only Juicing, for a period of time, is a Cleanse.  Allowing our bodies to eliminate the "crap."  But Paul (our doc) putting me on this regimen of Prensidone, to clear up my allergy stuff, is almost a Cleanse too.

 (Family over, to open pool...)

So, now....  When I stop the meds, I am back on my own.  Do I NEED sugar, processed foods, cakes, pies, cookies, etc.....  Do I NEED these things MORE, than TRYING to be (mostly) pain free?!?  We shall see...

So far, I use local Honey for my decaf...  We have cut out processed foods.  Are eating Organic, and only Organically grown meats, chicken, etc.  (One does NOT have to eat much meats, btw.  We teach ourselves, that we do need meat, meat, meat.)  ~~~~   But I have a ways to go.  I have to learn to bake, without the use of regular sugar or any of its equivalents. 

(Dust catcher --  Pretty dresser scarf  --  Dust catcher  --  OUT of bedroom)

I could have given click-able links, to information.  But we are all rushed.  If you want more, go to the Mayo Clinic web site and type in Inflammation.

Sorry the Class was so long.

Thank you for your patience.

Class dismissed.

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Day #12~~~New, *magic pills*~~~And *magic elixir*~~~

(Neighborhood Kitty...)

Let's see.  This is Day #12 of the "Cold From Hell."  On Day #5, got "Z-Pack" and took it.  Didn't work.    Day #11, my doc gave me Rx's for 2 different day-time *magic pills*, and 1 night time *magic elixir*. 

(Hopping around yard, trying to pounce on whatever insect, she could see...)

And he said, to come back to see him in a week, and that; I WILL  BE BETTER THEN!  Guess Paul can recognize a kinda' depressed/grumpy little ole lady.  So he added the Personal Order!  :-)))))

(Sick and "stuck" in my recliner, this view looked very pretty, to me.  It's not so grand, later.  But...  :-) )

So far, the *Magic Pills* and the *Magic Elixir* have been working wonderfully. 

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It's common knowledge that it takes more meds, to knock out lots of "bugs" now.  I wonder?  Could this have to do, with all the antibiotics fed to the meat, which we consume???????  Well, we don't eat that kind of meat, any more, here.  But we did, for years and years and years. 

Are you still doing so? 

 

Update~~~With No Obligation~~~:-)~~~

(Source)

Perhaps it's again time, for a wee Update.  Yes, I am getting better.  But slowly.  ~~~~~~~  I know!  Could the fact that I waited till DAY 5, of this "Cold From Hell", to go seek medical help?  Could this delay, have something to do with the lack of speed, of my recovery?  ~~~~~~~    Yeahhhhhh....  Very well could be!

(Source)

Reading is helping, when I even feel like doing that.  I have 2 new book reviews, on my "Auntie's Reads 2013," if anyone wants a possible book reading suggestion.    Click here, for one.   And click here, for the second.

I'm Not missing, spending mornings on the computer.  I'm enjoying having my decaf, and looking out the patio door/windows.  I'm noticing Spring!     ~~~~~~~    And perhaps, even more surprising, I'm enjoying the Beauty of Spring, for itself.   Meaning, not simply as a "Photo Op."    ~~~~~~~    It would seem that I have carried my "Photo Op Obsession" a bit too far.  I'm like the tourist, who never sees her trip, till she comes home and looks at the pictures she took.  In other words,  "Auntie" has been being rather stupid.  And I'm glad of a forced-noticing, how I have been acting.    ~~~~~~~    There is much to be said, of simply looking at, the changing play-of-light, on leaves...  Without running for my camera.    ~~~~~~~ 
 Imagine that?!?

I'm still NOT on the Net much.  Not commenting on blogs.  So you know I hate to leave my Comments Turned On.  But then, some Dear Readers may just *blow their lids,* if I turn Comments Off again.  Sooooo...  They are on.  But you have NO NO NO duty to make one. 

Hugs...

Spring has flown~~~Greens~~~Possible Ratio~~~

First flower to bloom, in "Uncle A's" front garden.  A Stella Doro.

It's cold up here.  Spring blew away, on all the wind, we've been having.  With frost temps possible at night, if one has plants planted outside, they had better be covered, at night.  To be on the safe side.

The ferns are coming up.

We are mostly sticking to the usual plan of not planting much, till Memorial Day.

Lily Of The Valley,

But as I have showed you, next door has their gardens well planted.

See the little white "bits," and "stuff" scattered around on the green leaves?  They are things falling, from spring- time trees.  ~~~~~~~~  Some pale green "bits," get all over the car, and make a mess.  Ahhhhh spring......

Well, the Creepy News is, that the Government targeted groups of citizens, by (click-->) using the IRS.  

And that the Government has  (click-->) obtained AP News phone records. 

But the &*^&%$#%^&*^%^% Abortion  (click-->) Doc got convicted. 

What's that?  Lose 2 and Win 1...???  Here in The Land Of The Free and The Home Of The Brave...

 

Blooming~~~"Mike"~~~Moving Gargoyles~~~

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Lilac trees are coming into bloom...

Fruit trees are a mass of lovely blossoms...

"Mike" will be back, next week...  Well, his ghost will...

A Broadway corner...

Gargoyles on top of a building, are moving...

They have to be secured, so they don't fall on anyone...

Betcha' thought stuff like this, only happens in Paris...

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SPRING!~~~Gardening~~~Blogging Question

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I'm still showing pictures of pretty blossoming trees, which I can see, from my house.

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Recording (in a photo) putting the pool pump on again, this year.  Look way to the right, and see "Uncle A." and son-in-law, doing it.  To the left, you can see daughter, lending moral support.  :-)   ~~~~~~~~   And of course, I'm up in the pool area, also lending moral support...  By leaning over the fence, to take this pic.

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Son/family next door, had a whole weekend of yard work.  Cleaning up and "neating-up" and planting too. 

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And in this bed, they left room for tomato plants, which are still to come. 

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We don't have any fruit trees ourselves, any more.  But as you can see, we can view some, from our plot.  Blossoms on fruit trees really say SPRING, it seems.  -happy sigh-  They don't last long, but make a lovely show, while they do.

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 A Dear Reader mentioned that my pictures are loading slowly.  Yes, I re-size my pics, making them smaller-then-they-come-out-of-my-camera.  And I post them, choosing 'Original Size"...  the re sized size.

I signed out of my blog, and checked its load time, on STOPWATCH.  My blog load time was 01.9.  Another blog's load time was  .616 and another's was 4.855.   So mine is less then one and more than another....

If you Dear Reader, are experiencing slow loading pics, here....  Please tell me.  Please and thank you. 

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