Thanks to all for well wishes. This certainly has been a strenuous, challenging month. Gaah! Both DH and I are much better today. Still taking our stuff. No chill/hot for me today…which is the symptom that makes me feel ‘sick’. Never got to sore throat…but keeping on with our fortifications. DH began coughing later today. Used a percussion device to ‘thump’ the chest, bronchial, lung areas. He hasn’t coughed since. Also ginger/honey tea soothes things. We both ate well and I’ve had energy to keep up with dishes….as well as doing AM/PM chores with DH.
Dang….had this typed and the page jumped up and I accidentally clicked Who-Knows-What before I had the chance to ‘save’…lost it. Grrrr! ..so I try again to add this:
Thanks for the suggestion on Thieves, Josefina. I’ve heard of that…used it years ago; think I still have a couple bottles. Many folks have great luck with that product….and make it themselves. But we’ve been using our herbal/nutritional products since the …90s, I think. We haven’t been actually ill in many, many years. But…you must start the ‘counter attack’ right away. DH was flying and he should have grabbed his from his carry-on when he felt it coming on. Running between flights is not a good time tho. 🙁 So he’s playing catch-up a bit. First thing he did last nite when he got home tho. Main thing with ours….one MUST use REAL Vit C….not the chemical made in a vat that they call ascorbic acid. That’s close to Vit C but is not quite…and it makes a difference!
SOOOO very glad I did that dirt work yesterday. Manual labor with sand/grit of the Rocky Mts is heavy labor. But I used a sled and pulled it [thankfully] down hill. The steps and the flooded area I covered with sand/grit certainly did freeze solid last nite. But the sand/grit was built up to be above the ice this morning….we could still walk there safely. Same with the “expedient” steps to the goat house.
These steps I talk of…[the goat ones, not up to house} …they are made-from-scratch. Our SIL showed us and started several of them for us one visit. Just put a board lengthwise to the hill…on it’s edge. DRive in wedge stakes on the downhill side to hold board in place….till the stakes are flush with the board so you don’t trip on the stakes!!! Then fill in that “step” with dirt/grit/sand {whatever is “dirt” in your area}. Continue up or down the hill. Ours are about 2′ wide from front to next step up. About 3′ wide from right to left side. Makes it much easier to get up that blasted hill!!! But they must be cleared of snow…… ice must be sanded ….and in other seasons, the torrents of rainwater gouge mini-ravines which have to be filled in. Worth it tho. Safer than raw hillside to climb!!!!
OldMtWoman ….BATTLE against ice and microbes!!!! …is it Spring yet?
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