Five day market

I got up after Chris left for church. I drank a quart of water while reading e-mail. I started the QandA for The Truth About Vaccines. But I paused it at 9:30 to take a shower and get dressed. I looked for today's songs in my e-mail but could not find them. Chris came back from church. Then I got my Sunday purse filled and put on my shoes.
He drove me to church and dropped me off. I sat in my usual seat and talked to Kathy who was there with her kids. Soon the service started. The praise leader with the guitar wasn't able to play today, so his backup led us in three hymns. That was really nice. Then lots of hand-shaking. Then the choir sang a really nice hymn that I hadn't heard before called “Yes, Lord, Yes”. The sermon was about the exodus from Egypt.
After the service, I talked to Suzanne, giving her the magnesium oil she wanted. Dynee paid me for the Biosil. So Young told me she had been studying how to cut hair and wanted to make a hair cut cape on Wednesday. I called Chris to come get me.
I walked up to the street and presently he drove by and parked at the commissary. We went in. He shopped while I used the restroom. Then I picked up some celery and distilled water. We checked out, using the two plastic bags I had remembered to throw in my purse. Hopefully next time I will bring more.
We took our food home and put it away. I made and ate breakfast. Then I put on my fanny pack and went outside. Dynee called to ask if I was ready to go to the 5-day market. I watered the transplanted bush and then we got in her car. She drove us to the market. It took awhile to find a parking space.
We passed a flower stand and I bought three petunias. Then we wandered down the side street to the main street. We bought various vegetables. Dynee bought two hydrangeas for the front of her house, and then she found a lilac. She wanted two of them, but the man only had one. But it was really nice and smelled so good. She also wanted to buy shepherd's hooks, but we could not find any.
Then we went back, and on the way got oranges and peppers. I also bought three tomato plants and six black lettuce plants. She drove us back to post.
At her house, we discussed where to plant the lilac. I saw that Terri had left more plants on my porch. I put my veggies away, except for the lettuce, which I put in the sink to re-hydrate. Then I went outside.
Dynee's husband dug a hole in the middle of their yard and they planted the lilac in it. I watered all my plants and most of our shared plants. I planted the tomatoes and the lettuce. I put two of the petunias in slightly bigger pots. I tied each one with twine so the plant hangers would have something to hold on to. Then I shoved one of the bamboo poles into the ground and hung the plants on it. I rounded up all my old plants, looking for another pot that size but did not find one.
When it was all done, I came in for supper. I ate eggplant, and spaghetti squash with raw garlic on it. I listened to an interview on ketones, then transcribed more of the video from yesterday. I also jotted notes for my blog.
When Chris was ready, we watched three episodes, each one ending in a cliffhanger. Chris went to bed and I stayed up to blog, and maybe listen to a delta BWE.
* It needs a little something, but I haven't figured out what. *

Decisions

We slept in late and got up about 9:30. I drank a quart of water and deleted e-mail. There was a message from the tapping buddy. I was not sure how to answer her. I listened to an audio and then I washed up and got dressed. I heard Ryan outside trimming our shared sidewalk. I called Dynee but she didn't answer. I read a little more. Then I went outside and saw her. She was sweeping the sidewalk. I started watering the plants. But the bending was hurting my back, so I came in to lay on the floor for a bit.
Chris was skyping with Michele on my laptop. I talked to her from the floor, and later sat on the couch. We had a nice chat. Then I had to finish watering the plants.
After that, I came in to make and eat breakfast. I watched an interview on somatics. He recommended pandiculation, saying it was better than stretching for muscle release and pain management. Chris went to work. I looked up pandiculation. I watched a Youtube video demonstration.
I saw a TEDx talk on what makes a good life: close personal relationships. Loneliness is toxic.
It was such a nice day that I went back out. I trimmed the yard with grass shears. And I dug up the weeds between the bricks in the front. I found centipedes under there but left them alone because they were where they should be.
Chris came home with his hands full of meat and some lemons. I used one lemon to make hummus. Then I cleaned in the kitchen: I tried a Magic Eraser on the sink, the countertop, the burner rings, and the bottom of the teapot. It did ok, but not outstanding.
I was reading e-mail when Chris left for the party (day 2). I elected to stay home this time, listening to audios and eating stuff from the freezer. I made a cucumber smoothie. I put together an Amazon order. The first two things were easy, but then I needed $3.50 more stuff to get free shipping. I tried Miracle-gro but when I checked out, it wouldn't ship. I looked into several other things, then ordered a seaweed fertilizer. It was a liquid, but it was shippable. But in the process of checking out, Amazon showed me the cutest watering can and I just had to get it for Dynee. So I deleted the fertilizer.
I finished listening to the first audio my Friday morning tapping buddy sent me. Then I began transcribing the second one. I paused it when Chris came home from the party. He sat with me and we watched two episodes. I soaked the new shower filter and then he installed it in the master shower. He went to bed and I stayed up to blog.
* This is the cupcake I made yesterday. *

Planting flowers and avoiding beer

I got up about 7:30, a little after Chris left. I drank a quart of water and did some yoga stretches while playing an audio. Then Dynee knocked on my door. She had questions about the flowers we all got yesterday. So I got dressed. She told me that Carolyn and Mai had better displays than we did. We walked up there to look. Then we decided to put our geraniums in last year's baskets to put along the fence. She had 7, so I gave her 8 baskets. She'd already started planting in front of her house. She wanted to dig up a little bush in front of her house and tried with the trowel, but it didn't work.
Then I went in to get ready for my Skype call. I lowered the shade so my tapping buddy could see me on the screen. Then she texted me that she needed a few more minutes. So I went to my sewing room to work on the cupcake. I traced and cut little white circles for frosting and one for the dollop in the center.
I had started the running stitch for the cupcake top when I heard the skype call. I answered. She asked me about how my unread e-mails were going and we talked and tapped about her stuff. Then she told me she was going to an EFT conference in New Jersey. I was kind of jealous but also excited for her. At the end, she sent me two tapping links.
After the call, I mowed our lawn, Dynee's lawn and the public areas in front of our lawns. Mowing the back yard, I noticed Chris in the kitchen so I put the mower away and came in. I had such a hot flash that I had to rip my clothes off. Chris did not mind. I asked him if a hot flash was as dangerous as high fever and he said he didn't think the flashes lasted long enough.
I made breakfast while Chris ate his lunch. Then he left. I ate breakfast while watching a video on breathing and digestion. He said breathing should be light and even, not noticeable. He also said we breathe too much.
Then I watched a video on pregnancy and the microbiome. I worked on the felt cupcake. My felt was too stiff to do it right. Dynee came knocked on my door again. So I got dressed, this time in shorts, and answered it. She was digging out the bush with a real shovel. Between the two of us we got it out and planted it in the row with all the rest. I showed her how I water the plants and she watered a bunch of them. I placed a few more along the fence, continuing our geranium theme. We also put out the blueberry plants, and orchids. We planted roses in her front yard. We discovered that each pot of roses had two or three plants in it. She only wanted the pink ones, so I took the others and she gave me a yellow one. I put up the shepherds hooks. We were out of hanging baskets but still had the hangers, so I used the hangers with the fushia pots to hang them at the end of the row of bushes. I put the roses in 4 matching pots and placed them at the end of the cement fence. I also planted the three peppers and the two wave petunias. Then I watered everything. Dynee had to get ready for a dinner out. I went in and sat down to read e-mail.
I had just started the Day 9 meditation from Oprah when Chris came home. He changed his clothes and handed me a package from Swansons, then went to a party the fire chief was throwing. A little later he called to say it was for wives too and three of them were asking for me. So I made myself a green smoothie, then put on clean clothes. I walked down to the fire chief's house. It was the one with the front door open and a grill sitting on the sidewalk. I walked in and saw Terri so I talked to her. Eventually Kim joined us and Chris said 'hi'. I got a plate and tried the jabchai, pork and strawberries.
The fire chief came by to say that after eating, we would all play Beer Pong and darts. I wasn't interested in either game, especially the Beer Pong, since it involved throwing ping pong balls into a cup of beer (or whatever) and then the other person had to drink it. It just wasn't sanitary. We women tried to hide out, talking. Eventually the fire chief introduced me to some mixed drink he was fixing which called for Kalua, Vodka, and chocolate milk. He put it in a shot glass, but I only had one sip. It hit me pretty quickly. Chris came by and offered me a sip of his wine. Then I had to sit down, and the chairs were by the beer pong game. I watched. Kim and Mari came over to talk. Chris was in the kitchen, telling stories and trying the alcoholic beverages. One of the ping pong balls bounced near me. I threw it across the table. It bounced once and fell in one of the cups of beer. There was an outburst of acclamation.
I watched the time, knowing I had another skype call scheduled. Finally the party seemed to break up. The fire chief talked about tomorrow's party (for a different shift of his staff). I collected Chris and we went home.
He was in a talkative mood, so I let him talk. I told him some things I heard at the party. When the time for the skype call came, I went over to my laptop and checked my messages. There was nothing from her and no indication that she was online. Chris sat with me and we talked a bit more. When she did not show up, we took our conversation to the bedroom.... Then I came out to the living room to check one more time for a message. I posted to my blog and went to bed.
* Our new spring line-up. *

An explosion of flowers

I got up around 8. I washed up, got dressed, read e-mail and drank water.
I found a plastic crate out back and walked down to Housing by 9. Ladies were already there picking out flowers. Terri told me we were allowed to get one of each and two geraniums. So I picked out what looked good to me. Then I ran home to get my phone. I took pics of the flowers. I texted Dynee to see if she wanted me to pick flowers for her since she was out of town. She said yes so I asked her if she wanted the yellow/orange ones, or the pink/purple ones. She chose the pink/purple. I chose a set for her with the most buds. Then I traded a lily to Lily for a geranium. I may have traded with someone else, too. The flowers were not all good choices for gardens. Orchids, for example. The begonias and impatiens were not there.
As I was finishing Dynee's flowers, Tammy drove by and asked if I needed a ride. Although Housing is close to me, it would have taken me 4 trips to transport all the flowers. So I accepted. She helped me carry the flats to the porches. We talked about the bandannas she wanted for a birthday party.
I made and ate breakfast while reading e-mail and listening to audios. Chris came home for lunch. I asked him if I could trade the orchid for something else. He said I could do whatever I wanted. But the lady I was going to trade with changed her mind.
I was listening to an audio and they said something Chris disagreed with and he said so, at length and included something he heard yesterday. I told him I was trying to rest and digest. I put on headphones to finish the interview. He finished his lunch and left. I wondered if he was upset with me.
I continued to process e-mail. I texted Kathy who had told me earlier that she had an extra bag of cacao nibs. I asked if I could stop by, but she was leaving so she left the bag on her porch. I looked up the price of cacao nibs. I listened to a meditation. Then I went to her place. I picked up the bag, and put down her jar with some cash in it.
Then I walked out in town to the massage place. I was 10 minutes early. But it was ok. I got a nice foot massage, thinking pleasant thoughts the whole time, and playing classical music on my phone.
After the massage, I walked through the market to Daiso. I bought a pack of toothbrushes infused with charcoal. Then I went to the plant place across the street and bought two wave petunias. At least, I think they were (are). From there I went to the junk store and got a pack of tiny barrettes for my hair. But on the way I passed another plant place and got 3 pepper plants. Then I went to the little corner market and bought a package of lettuce.
Finally, I walked home. There were more plants on my porch. Terri must have gotten them for me when the extras were up for grabs.
It was not quite 5. I called Myra, and she was home with a headache. I checked e-mail and texted Dynee. I made two smoothies, one with cucumber and one with lettuce. Then I decided to make seed crackers. I had just popped them in the oven when Chris came through the door. He wanted to bake spaghetti squash and eggplant. The seed crackers were done by the time he changed clothes and got the squash and egg plant washed, chopped and covered with spices. He also stir-fried onions, garlic, tomatoes and spices as a topping for the squash when it was done.
I looked up felt cupcakes on Pinterest and Youtube. I wanted to make one for a friend who is leaving and is an expert cupcake maker and a budding stitcher. It can double as a pincushion. The tutorials I found were in Spanish. But I took notes from the pictures.
When the food was done, I ate some of each. Then I pulled out my pieces of felt and drew circles with a CD. Chris was having trouble getting my laptop to talk to the TV, so I went back to the livingroom. We had to reboot my laptop to get it to work properly, which was odd since it seemed to have rebooted over night. We watched two episodes. Then he went to bed and I stayed up to blog and check e-mail one last time.
* It may not look like an explosion from this distance, but close up it was much more impressive. *

Dinosaurs, unite!

I got up about 7. I collated the recyclables. Then I broke down a bunch of Amazon and Swanson boxes and put them out for pick-up too. I oiled my hair.
I deleted a bunch of e-mail. I read some and listened to some interviews. I ran the dishwasher.
At 10, I started episode 7 of The Truth About Vaccines:
Studies have shown that people can be 'vaccinated' with homeopathic substances which carry no risk and do benefit the immune system.
“Healthy People 2020” guidelines are to get all adults fully vaccinated by 2020, with every vaccine on the schedule now and all the ones coming out. Electronic medical records now have a box for vaccine status to be checked. This may in the future affect your right to fly, get or renew a driver's license, go to public events, etc. One of the stated goals is to eliminate the right to refuse a vaccination.

I had breakfast. I had to pause the vaccine video to take a shower and put on shorts and a t-shirt. I gathered all the supplies needed for today's project. Then I headed out toward the chapel.
Myra was coming out of her place and it was timed perfectly. We walked together to the chapel. We went in the back door as instructed yesterday and found a man getting the room ready for a meeting. He said the chapel secretary had removed all our sewing stuff and placed it in the other classroom. I figured she had forgotten the large cutting mats, so I ducked in and grabbed those. Then we went to the other room.
Apparently the schedule changed since yesterday. I was glad we still had a room to meet in. I let the man know that our ladies were expecting to come into that room, so he printed a sign and posted it on the door. Then Sue and Chong showed up. We let them in the other back door. I got them started on the taggie dinosaur. Anna popped in to start one, but had to leave for a meeting.
Myra went home for the sign-in sheets and then went to the meeting in the sanctuary. It was about what to expect when you are expecting in Korea. Ok, so my target population for this project was hijacked. Still, everyone made one. Just after 1, Chantal called from the front gate. So I walked down there to sign her in, and we walked back together. She brought quilt blocks to work on, but made a taggie dinosaur instead. The ends of her center ribbon came out when she turned it right sides out. I stitched it with a deeper seam allowance, and then just topstitched the free end to the stitched end. I forgot to tell the ladies to clip their seams, so they had to be turned back, clipped, and turned right again. Anna came back after her meeting, and several people came from the expectant meeting. Allison came for the first time, and she made one. She had never sewn before, but she went slowly and did a good job. We started packing up. I walked Chantal back to the front gate to sign her out. Then I walked home. On the way I stopped at Housing to ask when we could meet there again. He said the men had moved out, but there were a lot of repairs to be done before the room was useable, and he would let us know when they were done.
I finished the vaccine video. I watched a few other, shorter videos that came in my e-mail. I laid down on the floor with two small balls under the back of my head. I listened to a Holosync audio with headphones. Since I have to turn my volume up to 100 on Windows 10 to hear anything, the headphones practically deafened me. I turned them down for 20 minutes. After the audio, I cleared some more e-mail. I blended up a cucumber and ate it. I did some Sudoku puzzles. Chris came home from work. He made himself supper. We watched two episodes. Then he went to bed. I practiced my trombone, then made a night-time potion of magnesium, vitamin C, tryptophan, and melatonin. I put up my hair, and wrote up my blog post.

Belle in the making

I stayed in bed late to get some sleep once the night sweats subsided. I got up about 8:30. I drank a quart of water while deleting e-mail.
Then I listened to an interview with a man who teaches people to walk correctly. It was fascinating to hear how people stand, sit, walk and sleep incorrectly. IT seems walking, if done right, massages all the organs and is very healing. I downloaded his e-book on psoas release.
Then I listened to the next installment of The Truth About Vaccines: people who got the chicken pox vaccine as kids were more likely to get shingles as adults. Because of the vaccine, we are now seeing more cases of Zoster. And more cases of shingles because there is no 'booster' of immunity by being exposed to kids with chicken pox. Some vaccines have the antigen grown on aborted fetal cells, or cells from animals. These cells are then injected as vaccinations, complete with foreign DNA.
Chris came home for lunch before the video was finished. I made and ate breakfast. I caught up on Sudoku. I called Myra to see if she wanted to walk to the bank, but she was busy making a Belle dress for the Beauty and the Beast party next Saturday. I called Terri too, but she did not answer.
Before I left, I noticed a niacin flush starting. So I bided my time, watering the plants and picking some lettuce. Akia messaged me asking for a box so I messaged her back. I waited a little bit and she mentioned 1:30. I thought I could make it before then, so I walked quickly down to the bank and back. I stopped at the chapel to ask which classroom we would be sewing in tomorrow. She told us classroom 2, but we would have to come in the back door since someone else would be having a presentation in the main room.
Then I went home, barely making 1:30. Akia was not there, so I messaged her that I was going to Myra's house and that the boxes were in the back yard. But when I opened the door, she was walking up the sidewalk. We went around back to get the boxes. She put them in the back of Chelsea's van. I hoped she would get a flight out with her dogs on her departure date.
Then I went to Myra's place. She was working on the Belle dress. I let her use me as a dress form. I watched her sew as we talked. Around 4 I went home, tired. I laid down while listening to an interview. I ate some roasted cabbage. I listened to one of Oprah's meditation. I opened a coconut. I peeled out the contents and put them in a bag. When the second interview was over, it was almost time to go. I jotted notes for my blog.
Then I put on my shoes and coat and walked to the commissary. It had just closed. I sat on a bench outside. Presently the young couple from church walked up. We talked for a few minutes until Kim came out and locked the commissary. Then we got in her van and she drove us to the antique shop. She parked the car in a nearby lot and we walked to the shop. Maranda petted the dog tethered outside. We went in and Kim gave chocolates to the owner.
Then we all looked around. Kim found a nice jade elephant. Maranda found a green celadon pot. I did not see anything I needed. When the owner packed up Kim's stuff, there were vases in it. Maybe she had them on hold?
Anyway, on the way back, the couple asked where they could get supper and Kim pointed out the chicken place near post. But they had to drop off their pot, so she drove them home, then drove me home. Parked outside my house, she told me if I became FRG president, she would attend the meetings. She said Myra thought I should be president, too. And that Maranda would make a good VP.
Then I got out and she left. I picked up the food waste pail and brought it in. Chris was having supper. I put a plate of kombucha out for the slugs to see if they liked it as much as beer. (I don't even know if they are out yet for the season.)
I watched an interview on kombucha and fermented foods. I ate some fermented purple cabbage. Then we watched the third episode of The Librarians, thinking there was a fourth, but there was not. So we saw one episode of Once Upon a Time. It looked like a season ender, what with Storybrooke disappearing like it had never been. But it was not, and Chris did not want to stay up to see what happened in the next episode. I wrote to my blog and joined him in bed.
* Here is a pic of the rain from yesterday. *

Rainy day and taggie toy

Before I went to bed last night, I ordered some cacao nibs on Amazon. I run out of them so quickly. I happened to check my wish list and saw that the sewing machine Myra has had dropped from $137 to $82 with $13 shipping. The total was less than the $100 the post office had paid for messing up my last machine. So I ordered it, then went to bed.

Chris tried to wake me up early so I could finish my coffee morning by 10 in order to go to the flower show with Kim and friends. But I decided that rushing to get ready by 10 defeated the whole purpose of having a relaxing, meditative morning. And it was raining. He left before 8, which was when I got up. I drank two cups of water, then swished with coconut oil and a drop of clove oil. From there, it was the usual exercises, etc.
Just as I was finishing my meditations and starting to clean, Chris came home for lunch. I cleaned the bathrooms while he used the kitchen to make lunch. Then I cleaned the kitchen. He went back to work, leaving the lid of the bread machine open. That was my cue to make more bread. I listened to the next day of the Truth about Vaccines: When a vaccine targets a few strains of a virus, it creates a vacuum. That vacuum gets filled with other strains that are both more prevalent and more virulent than the previous strains. Gardasil has the highest concentration of aluminum of any vaccine on the market. Shaken baby syndrome should be studied, SIDS is most prevalent during 2 to 4 months of age, lots of vaccines are given during that time period.
After the video, I read e-mail. There was a message from Amazon that the credit card charge was denied. But when I checked into it, they had used an old card number. Easily rectified. I watched a short video on shoulder and back stretches. I called Myra to tell her I had ordered a sewing machine like hers because the price had dropped to $82. I asked if anyone else was looking to buy a machine. After the call, I checked again, but the price was back up to $137. ???
I looked at taggie toys on Pinterest, hoping to find something really cute and simple to make for class. The hedgehog was cute, but no tutorial was given. So was the jelly fish, but it used trims I didn't have. Some things had embroidered faces. Finally I came across a simple dinosaur. I sent myself the link so I could open it on the desktop. I printed two copies of the pattern. One of them got spray-glued to a raisin box for stability and then I cut it out. I rummaged through my fleeces to find one that I could spare. I traced and cut one dinosaur. I took it to my sewing room to find something for the other side.
Chris came home from work so I called out to him. He came back to see what I was doing, then he changed his clothes and made his supper. I selected a chevron fabric for the other side. I traced and cut the reverse of the dinosaur. Then I sorted through my ribbons to find some with the same colors as the chevron fabric.
I went to my laptop to find out how long the ribbons should be. One pattern said 4 inches and another one said 5. But the ones on the dinosaur seemed to be graduated. So I cut two at 3”, two at 4”, two at 5” and the middle one at 6”. I folded them in half and pinned them to one of the dinosaurs. I paired them up and sewed around, leaving a gap between the legs as shown in a picture from the tutorial. But it wasn't nearly big enough to turn it right sides out. So I sewed up that hole and used the seam ripper to make one under the tail. I turned it, and used a chopstick to stuff it, then whip-stitched it shut. I took it to the cutting room for it's closeup.
Then I told Chris I would be ready to watch TV at 8. I put the food waste in its container and tagged it for pickup. I had scrubbed the sink earlier with baking soda and it looked terrible. I scrubbed it again, then used soap. But it looked like the baking soda had etched it. I looked up baking soda and stainless steel online. Everything I saw said baking soda was good for cleaning stainless steel. Then Chris came over and loaded a Netflix DVD in the player. We watched two episodes of The Librarians. I really liked the second episode – a man was reading an old book of fairytales and the town started acting them out. After the shows, I went into the bathroom to try shaving the shocks of white hair that grow on the back of my neck. Chris came in to kiss me goodnight. I persuaded him to shave the locks of hair for me.
Then Chris went to bed and I stayed up to blog.
* What kind of dinosaur is this? *