Corsaire….ouch! Fibro is no fun…have seen my friends suffer. 🙁
Loving Life….a balancing act: trust and seeing the good vs expecting all to be out to get you. Yeah, that’s right. I have an awfully bad feeling that the scales are starting to be heavier to the not-so-trusting side tho in recent years. Seems like a higher percentage of folks are insane! In the professional and informal sense of that word! …. present company excepted, of course!!! 🙂 Drug abuse is really not helping!
Muffy….Wow…you did it! Did you put the spinach in salad or something? Yes, ladybugs are great in gardens! Welcome those new residents.
MollyM….enjoying your description of closet clearing. Keep going…you will make it! Your success will inspire others….{like me?}
Hieronyma….good ideas for preps that are NOT in plain sight! Yes, I’m very thankful that computer is acting ok today. Look up “hay box cooking” cuz that’s what the pioneers called the thermal cooking. Cast iron pot with lid buried when hot in deep layers of straw. The first crock pots!
Amy Dixon…Yes, setting up blankets or tents was something we’d thot of too. We used to hang blankets over doorways in the OLD farmhouse I grew up in. That wasn’t power outage. That was when the wind blew hard. We only stayed in kitchen. I hadn’t thot of using the small one to keep the bathroom pipes from freezing, that’s an idea. Likely we would need the larger Buddy for living room …or sit in the tiny 3/4 bathroom. Two of us could not fit laying down on the floor space in there!
We also have a kerosene heater to save the plumbing in the garage area. [weird old house] If something lasted long term before we get moved outta here, we’d take the pellet stove insert out of the original fireplace. Likely have to remove the adaptions from top of chimney too. But the flue and such is still intact. Fireplaces are not efficient but you use what you have. I purchased 2 Army surplus good down sleeping bags – winter weight. …and large dog.
Not a good day physically…tho it usually improves toward evening. I added a pair of strong reader glasses to my BO First Aid kit and a cigg lighter to both DH’s and mine. On the theory of sterilizing a needle for digging out splinters or… ??
I read an article about……{brain lag….it’s been happening alllllll day! HMPH! } …oh, yeah! About using cayenne pepper to clot bleeding cuts. Supposed to be very effective. Oddly, it seems that some people experience immediate pain relief from it as well. Others have a nasty minute of pain before it subsides. Yet others will have terrible pain with it – and some wash it off in a few minutes but it’s usually clotted by that time.
What I wondered was….does that pain/no pain correlate with folks you can eat HOT SPICY foods like cayenne without apparent pain? Would folks like me who firmly believe that PAIN is not a flavor….experience that severe pain if cayenne was poured into a cut? Theory – no results yet. Not volunteering for that experiment. But I put cayenne pepper on the ongoing Shopping List. Yarrow is supposed to be good for clotting blood too. And it’s one of the FEW things that grow wild up at this altitude/climate. So does bearberry Ursa…whatever. ….well, it did until I free-ranged my goats and we had drought. {roll eyes}
OldMtWoman ….G’nite all.