OldMansd….your skill in stitching leather is improving! Your last piece is verrry evenly stitched. Likely that device you made is helping that…so the project holds still? Yes….I KNOW about ‘safe places’. I can’t even remember how many things are still on the MIA list…which I’ve resorted to tacking up on the fridge door. Ack!
Padded Cell Farmer…thanks for the report on the tuna-can-cardboard coil-wax cooker. Smoke, huh? Yeah, that’s going to kill the indoor usage. I have the means for making some. I even know WHERE that is in garage. Just never got around to melting down the wax. …….and our dogs have always gotten the horses’ hoof trimmings. After all, they sell cow hooves in the pet stores…but it does give them bad breath. I even have a steer horn…but it kinda shatters when I allow her to chew on it ….supervised.
Muffy…repackaging the #10 can stuff is a good idea if there is usually just you eating. The OXYGEN absorbing packet in the can is only a one-time-use. After you open the can, you can throw it away. The MOISTURE absorbing packets can be dried out …in sun or whatever…and used time and again, however. Both O2 and moisture will degrade food product so repackaging for smaller scale use will work well. Throw them back into the #10 for storage if there is room —-in my house, it would be so the mice wouldn’t get to them. [haven’t seen/heard from them in a while….woohoo]
Another topic for Muffy and anyone else that doesn’t function as well without the sunshine. Like me! Probably most folks have heard about Seasonal Affective Disorder [appropriately labeled: S.A.D. ] This has been something I noted in my life for decades. I’ve always hated the coming of “The Darkening”. 🙁 Then I was told to stop wearing sunglasses [light sensitive blue eyes] and let the sun enter. Wow. BIG CHANGE! Something about the sunshine triggers the pineal gland ….that sets off a chain of events that helps mood elevation and a lot of other body functions.
I’m not a doc. Look up what I’m talking about or just try to get sunshine on your skin [Vit D] and in your eyes. NOT staring at the sun but just not hiding behind very good sunglasses constantly like I was. It doesn’t take all that long… being in the sunshine.
Some folks have purchased all spectrum lights to augment what the sun doesn’t give in certain seasons. I haven’t done this and can’t speak for it or not. I would think the all spectrum lights for growing things indoors might be the same products? …… lol…..go sit with your spinach? What’s good for the plants is also some of what we need too.
This is a link to a general article I found about benefits of sunshine to our brain/body and an excerpt from it. [BOLD is mine]
https://philmaffetone.com/sun-and-brain/
” Of course, the sun is important because it offers us vitamin D for free, and is the major source of this important nutrient that has powerful effects throughout the body. Vitamin D allows one to more effectively use calcium, improves the immune system, helps prevents cancer, and is important for brain function. Yet, millions of people have insufficient levels of vitamin D, and rickets—a once common condition of brittle bones in children caused by vitamin D deficiency that was very rare—has made a big comeback. Much of the information about vitamin D can be found in my books and articles.
In addition to the healthy affect on your skin, sunlight also provides another positive benefit. The human eye contains photosensitive cells in its retina, with connections directly to the pituitary gland in the brain. Stimulation of these important cells comes from sunlight, in particular, the blue unseen spectrum. A study by Dr.’s Turner and Mainster of the University of Kansas School of Medicine, published in the British Journal of Opthamology in 2008 states that, “these photoreceptors play a vital role in human physiology and health.” The effects are not only in the brain, but the whole body. ”
And a second article:
http://erinkrollpeacock.com/new-blog/2018/1/12/occqzcdhiuf8xajlp46g5bap7cz4md
“Photoreceptor cells are also located in the retina, and when triggered by sunlight they also produce serotonin in tandem with the pineal gland.
Scientists believe that some environmental light can pass through the skull to reach the pineal gland, but most of the stimulation occurs through the pathways between the eyes and nervous system.”
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After reading Daisy’s article about diseases like scurvy, beriberi, rickets, etc….I did some research and this S.A.D. information also has data about getting Vit D from the free source: sunshine. So full spectrum light ….it’s a double win!
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Some scary affects from being short on niacin [Vit B3]. Many articles about this deficiency.
“<span id=”bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1”>Pellagra is a disorder caused by niacin deficiency, which includes mental symptoms such as irrational anger, feelings of persecution, mania, and dementia…..</span>
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Another thing I saw about absorbing from the sun concerned me tho. Other articles stated that folks with genetically darker skin and darker eye color will not be absorbing the Vit D or the benefit thru the eyes as quickly as those who are pale skin and blue eyes. Has to do with where our ancestors lived and adapted for….and in: if you’re living in Norway, those that sucked in the benefits from the sun quickly, lasted longer. If you’re in the tropics, sunshine is a lot more available. But now we all live all over so keep that in mind too. Our family has some darker tones and very light toned folks…so it caught my attention.
OK….that’s been my research lately and Muffy’s comments about dark, dreary days caught my attention. But we’re all affected by The Darkening – some more than others. I certainly am!
OldMtWoman