Hazy skies; ants

Skies are pretty hazy in the west, but the setting sun is really making it impossible to tell much about it.   The sunsets have been beautiful the past few days, and I wonder what it will be like this evening.

I have been noticing ants in my kitchen, just running up the side of a cabinet in one area and so far they aren't taking over my entire kitchen.  I sprayed some bug spray on a paper towel and ran it over the corners where they are traveling - hope that stops them.  I think tomorrow I am going to do a deep cleaning on my kitchen.

After breakfast this morning I had intended to make a quick trip to Costco and go to the gym.  I thought about it for a while and decided I didn't need to do either one, so I went back to bed!   Last week it seemed I had more energy in the mornings, but it certainly has dissolved!  I honestly don't know if it's what I'm eating (or not eating), or what makes me feel like that.   

Being a sucker for some sales pitches, and ever hopeful of finding the "miraculous solution", I recently ordered a month's supply of powder you mix with water - it's called "Vital Reds".  It is supposed to be chock full of energizing vitamins and minerals, and certainly wasn't cheap.  The damn stuff is a total waste of money and I'm expecting to get emails any day now urging me to get a refill.  If you ever get urged to buy Dr. Gundry's magical cure, please ignore it.  It's only magic for Dr. Gundry's bank account! 

Joe stopped by before picking his girls up from school this afternoon.  We ended up going out to my shed where we filled a huge garbage can full of items that I believe were left on shelves when I moved in.  I've always wanted to get rid of most of the stuff in that shed.   When he was cleaning it out he found the hitch from when I had my truck - since he recently bought a new truck he asked me if I was going to use the hitch and I told him it was his.  I am glad to see it being of use again.

I think the sun has gone down enough now that I can go outside and look at the western skies.   We usually have a brilliant sunset,  but nothing like that this evening.  I started to watch a youtube video on the fires burning in Santa Rosa but couldn't even bear to watch it for a half a minute!  It's awful.

 See you tomorrow. 

I'm Bored!

I have been so bored the past couple of days, and maybe that is why I want to sleep so much!  I have no TV (thankfully) but I do watch YouTube more often than is good for me.  I switch to a variety of topics though, not wanting to watch any topic exclusively.

There is a 1 hour video that is published every week on Saturdays, featuring Dane Wigington, called Geoengineering Watch-Global Alert News.  The program features Wigington reading the relevant geoengineering news of the week, and there is a lot of it!  One of the things he covered in yesterday's video is about chemtrails, which he said should be referred to as "climate engineering", as that is what it actually is; I guess the word "chemtrails" isn't taken seriously enough.  I agree with him and will now try to refer to climate engineering, so you will all know what I mean if you read about it in my blog.

What I can't figure out is why no mention of it is made in any of the media, everyone seems to know it is there, should realize that it is dangerous (to drop metallic particles and chemical substances on a population, poisoning our air, the ground our food grows in, etc.), but no one seems to have an idea of what to do to change it.  I don't think we even know who is responsible for it, except that it is the "U.S. Military".  Who authorized it, and more importantly, who can explain it in depth to the people who are suffering ill effects from it, as well as how can we stop it.  No one in Congress has ever referenced it that I know of.   

I alternatively watch videos of animals, both domesticated and wild, and that reminds me there are great people in the world who want to help animals, such as lions who have been held for decades in small cages by circus operators in South America, which were rescued and eventually returned to Africa.  Watching a huge lion finally getting the nerve to walk outside his enclosure, feel actual grass under his feet, and experience the relative freedom of acres of open land to roam, made me end up in tears.  

I can't say that I miss CNN or MSNBC or the like, and the youtubes I watch are a lot more uplifting than American politics these days!   These are my opinions only, and you might agree or disagree.)

Busy Sat. morning

This morning I went to the farmers market, where I spent a lot of money but didn't get many items.  For one thing I bought a good sized bottle of olive oil which should last me for a while.  I also got corn on the cob - I don't eat it often, but it looked too good to pass up.  Eggs, walnuts, and soup bones to make bone broth rounded out my purchases.  I haven't figured out the total I spent and I don't think I really want to know - my wallet is lighter though!  I still need a few things from the grocery as well as Costco.

I did my mile & a quarter walk at the gym - I never feel like doing it which means I really need to do it!

The skies were weird last night.  I saw the moon earlier but most of the stars visible throughout the night were not to be seen.  I could see one bright star or planet in the south, but that was about it.

We are in for some days in the 80's but the temp should go back into the 70's by next Wednesday.  It's always subject to change, I guess depending on how much chemtrailing is done this week.  My car was a total mess from what they are spraying so I went to an automatic car wash this morning.  I usually select an option with several features, but this morning I got the plain old car wash.  It was a waste of money when I see all the grime left on top of the car and in other spots.  I feel like I've been "had" by the Shell station car wash, and need to find another place to get it done, although this one is so convenient - right outside my mobile home park.  The automatics are probably all alike and I can no longer afford to go to the wonderful car wash where they do your car by hand, inside and out.  The cost of groceries is going to ruin me!

I just read where they have now closed the old Tappan Zee bridge, a 3.1 mile span across the Hudson in NY.  It is being replaced with a new bridge which I would love to drive across except for the fact that my drive-to-NY-days are over!

Hope you all have a good weekend.  I will probably take it easy unless I hear from Jeannie about going to Costco.



  

Harvest Moon

Every time I think of the harvest moon I want to sing "Shine on Harvest Moon"!  I looked out my bedroom window at about 8:30 and saw it in the east, and checked it out a few more times before I went to bed.  At one point I woke up to go to the bathroom and when I got back into bed I saw the moon cast its beautiful light right in a silhouette where I sleep!  There is a magical feeling about the moon casting its shine directly on you.

I'm feeling a little better and certainly more awake than I was a few days ago.  I don't know why but I had two consecutive days where I kept going back to bed and never did get dressed all day long.  I've changed my diet somewhat and now I have to go back and figure out what I might need to resume eating.  Sometimes it seems like just too much trouble.

The water was shut off in our entire mobile home park yesterday, from about 2pm to 10 or 10:30.  I have plenty of water on hand so didn't worry about running out of drinking water, but hate to use my drinking water for handwashing!  When it finally came back on it sputtered and splashed all over, and was an ugly rusty brown color.  I let the taps run for a while and the water finally became a decent color.   It is still sputtering some of the time when a tap is turned on.

Situations like that make me think of all the problems experienced in the past month or two of people who have been hit by hurricanes and were without power.  Puerto Rico is an especially sad story as they say it could take months to get power up and running in some places.   For most of my life I have tried to be prepared with extra supplies on hand, always thinking of shortages that an emergency could bring.   Of course in the case of the hurricane in Puerto Rico, I doubt that any kind of preparation would have helped most people. 

Venezuela is another sad story which we aren't hearing anything about lately - the media likes to keep moving on to something new for a day or two, and then they have to find another "breaking news story".  

I wish everyone a good weekend.

Night out

I went with the family to Straw Hat Pizza last night - enjoyed the food, the beer, and the company very much.   I also suffered with indigestion all night long!

Yesterday and today I am back to where I was a few weeks ago - so tired I can't get up and get dressed.  I just went back to bed this morning after I ate breakfast, and I can tell I won't get much done today.  I need to return two books to the library - never got around to reading either of them.

Thank goodness for the night and early morning skies, which fill me with awe and wonder.

Seasoned Sale - So-So!

I used the salt to season a salmon filet I baked last night.  It was just o.k., but definitely missed something.  I wouldn't be a bit surprised if a dash of garlic salt might perk it up.  I can't think of what else it could be - it tasted fine when I sampled it, but it just didn't season the fish like the old Santa Maria salt did.  Back to the drawing board.

It has been a very nice day that looks like it will remain in the low 80's.   I'm looking at  70's by Monday, and I can only hope.

Last night was a disappointing night to look at stars, and my binoculars didn't help any.  I think it was overcast  most of the night.
  
My day started out very well and I enjoyed my walk and workout at the gym, followed by 10 min. on the hydromassage - always a treat.  Things sort of deteriorated from the time I left the gym and saw all the horrible chemtrails in the sky.  I had planned to sweep my driveway and do a little yard work, but not when it's anyone's guess what kinds of particles are being rained down on us.  I know it's not normal and I have constant sniffling.  Many folks are experiencing much worse symptoms than I am.  I didn't realize until I did some searching on the problem that it is present in many other countries of the world as well, so it's a global thing.

Instead of concentrating on fixing a good dinner, I think I've ruined my appetite by munching on pretzels!

I hope you all enjoy your weekend.

My sesoned salt-not bad!

I made my own seasoned salt this morning and will say it isn't bad.  I had just a little bit left of the old seasoning which contains garlic, so I was able to compare the two.  I will have to say that the garlic adds a nice bit of flavor and it isn't too strong in the salt I was trying to replace.  I put my newly made version into the same container as the old and just shook it up a bit.   I think I would buy a small container of garlic salt except I wouldn't use more than a fraction of it before the "best used by" date, so I will probably leave things as they are.  I can always change my mind the next time I season a pork chop with the salt if I find the taste is lacking something.

I don't know about anyone else but I find I find myself sinking down into the dumps a little more each day.  I attribute it to the latest news about hurricanes and their damage, political news  which just keeps getting worse,  earthquakes and the probability of "the big one", etc.  My good news is that I appear to have gained about 2# according to the scale at the gym.  I am so thrilled about that, and look forward to adding a few more.   I'm certainly eating a lot, but it hasn't seemed to make a difference in the past. 

As I've mentioned, I like to look out my bedroom window at night to see what's up in the sky.    I've noticed there is never anything visible before midnight, which could be due to a cloud cover although I can't see clouds.  At about 1am the skies seem to come alive and the views until just before dawn are breathtaking.  I've always liked looking at the night skies but I can't remember being this excited about what I see, with the exception of when I lived in Ireland.  As I've mentioned before, I lived in a rural area at the end of a peninsula, surrounded by the sea on 3 sides, and the night skies were alive with stars.  It's the only time I can recall ever seeing the Milky Way in all its glory.  I think I will try to find my binoculars and see what a difference they might make.

I need to get moving and get to the gym.  I have walked a mile and a quarter every day this week and even did a mild workout yesterday.   It is more fun going with my daughter, but she can never make it before 5pm and I don't function well after Noon or 1:00pm these days. 


I hope everyone who is reading my blog has a good day.  Can you believe it's already Thursday and another weekend is rolling around?  My life is going by in fast motion these days, but hey, I'm just happy to still be able to get around!