August 30-September 5, 2020 Veg Exchange, Decking, Bible Study Prep, Garden, Deck

 

August 30-September 5, 2020 Veg Exchange,  Decking, Bible Study Prep, Garden, Deck

Hello Friends!

In the ongoing saga of trying to figure out what I can do to reduce my migraines I’ve been going to one of those alternative medicine places.  This week I had another appointment and they went over the results of my stool sample which they use to determine your food intolerances.  This is actually different than the skin test my dermatologist did for me twenty years ago—at least the foods that I reacted to were entirely different!  It is just amazing how I am averse to 80 percent of foods.  No gluten, no dairy, no eggs…  I’ve had to loosen my low FODMAP diet regulations a little just to get by and so far that has been okay.  Anyone for a life of salad?  Apparently, I’m all in!  I am trying everything I can to get over all the migraines, but really it’s hard to work around the elephant in the room; which is that hormones are my problem and there isn’t much I can do to effect having hormones.

 

Garden: 

Another week of canning and blanching.  I always enjoy fresh green smoothies throughout the year and by blanching my greens I can have that.  Then when I can my greens I can have my greens in my bone broth homemade soups; which never sounds as awesome as it is!  I even broke out my dehydrator and started on some of my herbs—like basil this week.

Decking:

Dh is still working on replacing old boards with new replacements.  He is doing a great job.  This was a much bigger job than he thought it was going to be.

House:

I’m still working hard on the outbuilding and spent most of the week on this job.  I’m still caulking and painting and making good progress.  I found some open areas on a seam and some bee activity that I needed to do extra caulking on.

Dd’s Progress:

After a few difficult weeks, Dd has put in her notice at her pizza shop.  She just has to get through the next two weeks.

This weekend Dd, and her friends are putting up our tent and camping at her boyfriend’s house.  I’m glad she likes camping out!

German: DuoLingo: 4 sessions: 50 min.

Biology: Apologia: 3 sessions: 1:00 hour

Work at pizza shop: 3 days

Reader:

Changeless by Gail Carringer: 6 sessions: 9 hours