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margaretturk wrote: »

This arrived from Brother and Wife today...There are lights but I will use those on an inside wreathe...Cold and snow make it hard to have battery powered lights.

Rebecca have you talked to your Dr. about your sleep. Not getting good sleep takes its toll. There are many good tools out there to help with sleep today. The more you can breathe through your nose the less likely you are to snore. Breathing through your nose has health benefits too. I noticed this when I started mouth taping and wearing a breathe right strip at night. I have to first clear up my chronic sinus infection before I could start the mouth taping. The infection has now been gone for about a year. One thing I noticed was that I lost much of my double chin. I learned having excess weight on your neck is one of the factors that causes sleep apnea. My mom had both excess weight on her neck and sleep apnea, and it did cause health problems for her.

Mouth tape is so expensive though! I looked it up once. What do you use? I also have a double chin. When I have vertigo I usually snore a lot too. Or when I have had a sip of anything alcoholic. Or when there's a full moon. Lol, maybe not the last one. I pretty much snore all the time. I need to talk with my primary doctor on some things that might help. I need to lose like 50 lbs. But I don't realistically see that ever happening.

Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa

Wow Tracey! That is a lot of work!
So glad Michaela was there to make it more fun. Your village is fabulous. Have you collected the pieces over the years? Also, I see you've put away your normal decorations; what do you do with them in the meantime?
I'm waiting for John to get stuff down from the garage loft, as there are some string lights I want to put out around the fireplace.
This year I'm using what I call 'winter' decorations, apart from the tree John is decorating, because I plan to keep the lights, flowers, and fake candles out through the dark days of January. Once the daffodils start coming into the shops, I reckon it's time to retire them!

Cleaner today.

Must get wrapping soon. I've bought some very nice recycled paper, with labels and twine included, for the grandchildren. Bea's weighted blanket will need a few sheets! I don't buy anything with metallic on, because it can't be recycled.
But I must write first, this morning. It's a kind of 'grateful' chapter.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

Regarding helper-driver husbands ... mine often provides a steady stream of what I should do next. I ignore him most of the time, but occasionally I will tell him:

"Do not tell me to go. That's dangerous. I have complete my checks and feel ready to go." -- that's at intersections or roundabouts.

"Let me figure it out for myself. I'll never be able to do it myself if you keep offering suggestions." -- that's when I'm trying to back the vehicle.

Sometimes that helps.


Lard ... I'd like to use lard for pie crusts, but it's hard to find here.


Taping mouth ... I couldn't do that. I can barely wear my mouth guard! I keep feeling like I can't breathe.


Machka in Oz

Tracey - your Christmas villages are just stunning! Everything is! Please remind me - you leave all the decorations up until after the first of the year, right? Are you allowed to decorate at your workplace?

Debbie - I'm glad you are hundreds of miles away from me, otherwise I might have to stop in, lol. What does your mom do with her share?

Mo - you got me inspired to start cleaning out my bookcases and removing books for donation that I know I'll never read again. But with T's news that thrift shops aren't taking anything except clothing right now, not even books, I'm stalled. I can't just throw them away. . Hopefully things will improve after Christmas and they'll welcome books again along with other items. I'm starting to get a pile of things on the bed in the guestroom.

Kylia - You and I are on the same page with re-starting the water drinking. And the de-cluttering thoughts! Hope your work week goes smoothly.

Lisa - I could feel your excitement at finding the "perfect place." DH and I used to take little drives and do the very same thing. Loved spending time talking about houses and little farms we liked and planning what we'd do the places, what our lives would be like. Some of my favorite memories. I still tend to do that, tho my next move will be closer to town.

Margaret and Rebecca - the book "Breath" by James Nestor gives tips on mouth taping, as Margaret has mentioned in the past. If my sinuses are acting up at night, which is often, nose-breathing at night is tough to do - though I've been successful nose breathing when sleeping in the recliner so my head is elevated a little. I've tried all kinds of tapes, too. The ones strong enough to keep my lips together tend to take off skin anyhow. My DH used those nose strips successfully to help with his snoring. But he had tougher skin than me and didn't remove a layer when he took it off in the morning. During the day I am conscious of my breathing and nose-breathe as much as possible when my sinuses clear out after a couple cups of coffee. My drug of choice! .

Heather - love those cups you bought, I know you'll enjoy using them. "Vintage" from the 1970's caught my attention. Why, that wasn't very long ago, right? It's finally dawning on me that I was born "mid-century" in the 1900's. I'll soon be lumped in with the generations who plowed with mules and used kerosene lanterns, no telephones, no electricity and all that. We certainly didn't grow up with cell phones and computers and we played outside and actually talked to people, lol.

But I'm very grateful for computers and the internet - no chance of me being lonely, even though I live alone, when I have friendships with people all over the planet. How lucky to be born and raised in the "old ways" but I get to take advantage of the "new ways."

I took the old Camry for a spin yesterday to try out the new battery. Of course, it worked fine. I need to reprogram the radio and reset the clock. Some YouTube shorts came up interviewing mechanics about the best older cars, and 2004 to 2009 Toyota Camrys and Corolla's came up in the top 3 in all of them. Hope they are correct. Also, one mentioned that Subaru's prior to 2009, (if I'm remembering right) could be problematic because of the leaking head gasket. Yep, I agree. I see a teensy drip now and then on the cardboard I keep under the car. One mechanic said if older cars valued at $6,000, let's say, are in otherwise good shape - no rust, etc., it can be worth it to spend several thousand $$ on major repairs to keep them going for a long time as opposed to getting rid of them and buying something newer which might come with its own set of problems.

I need to work on the grocery list - heading out at daybreak to get some shopping done.

Make it a fabulous week!

Lanette
SW WA State

Tracey ~ Your hutch cabinet with the Christmas village is beautiful. And, all the additional decorations are too (especially the beautiful snow scenes and decorations around the windows)! Michaela looks very much at home as she watches tv on the sofa!

Debbie ~ I think I gained a couple of pounds looking at all the treats you made!

Lanette ~ Glad the Camry is running well!

Carol in GA

LanetteYes good info in the book Breathe. I could't do it until that sinus infection on the left side healed. Changing my diet is what finally got rid of that sinus infection for good. No I did not use an antibiotic this time. Low sugar minimal grain and lots of organic veggies is part of what did it for me.

Nose breathing also helps your teeth. Your teeth are remineralized by your saliva. When I breathed through my mouth at night I woke up with a dry mouth. Reducing the sugar also makes a big difference in preventing tooth decay. It is sugar which promotes bad bacteria. I wrote about this before in the book Ultra processed people the author talked about a study where they gave rats ultra high processed food. One set a version which was low sugar and the other with a high sugar version. It was the high sugar group whose teeth showed decay. I find it interesting that my dentist offers cookies and OJ for snacks in his office. HMMM! OJ is a high sugar acidic drink!

Morning, my chickens...

Nearly 50 degrees outside (10C), so Egg is happily out there checking out her usual stuff. The rain stopped in the late afternoon yesterday, but the days are so short now that it was already nearly dark. So glad we got out and about the day before.

Kylia, Tracey and Lanette - Y'all pegged it exactly right. So much joy just in the going, but also in the searching for that absolutely perfect place, the one that feels right when you're there, that ticks all the boxes. We both missed being able to go on those drives. One of those things you don't even know how much you miss doing until you get it back. Never been one to moan about spilt milk... but oh, it was lovely to be able to go. Between the pressures of work when we got here, working on this house and land, and then being sick, it's been many long years since we could just explore. Hope to add that to the weekends as a regular thing again.

Tracey - Your Christmas decorations are utterly beautiful, every bit... I keep going back to the three snowmen in the window, though. Those are so humorous and charming, much like you. They're my favorite!

Kylia - I know that sometimes this thread can seem like one more pressure when we're getting pressured from every direction. But I really do love seeing your posts when I pop in, no matter how often you feel like contributing. So glad you're here.

Heather - I think those kind of memories are wonderful, and if there is something you can hold and touch that brings them back each time, then so much the better.

Debbie - I did mock up the workshop apron in the end, and it was a good thing. I forgot how much bigger he is than I am. Fully done, pinned on him, and now I can use the mockup as a pattern to get the fabric pieces all cut out and the pockets lined with lightweight leather, as well. Will be putting rivets in all corners and may put rivets and leather at the end of all the straps, too. He's hard on work clothes.

Regarding taping your mouth shut at night, just the thought of it makes me twitch. I can't wear necklaces, scarves, turtlenecks, or even a round-necked shirt. They all make me feel as if I'm unable to breathe. Throw in mild claustrophobia, and just the thought of taping my mouth shut gives me nightmares.

Egg came back in all misted with the light drizzle that is apparently going on outside, and immediately wanted some lap time - notice the claws are ready in the first pic and just gennnnnttttlllllyyyy inserted through the shirt in the second. Her favorite small torture...


Hope it is/was/will turn out to be a grand Monday.
Love y'all!
Lisa in AR

dlfk202000 wrote: »

Back home. Half the treats stayed at mom's, half came home with me.
I will do more this week.
6 batches of caramel corn, three cracker toffee, two kinds of fudge and two batches of peanut clusters

Mmmmmmmm, I want some

Books.... We have a friends of the library group that takes all sorts of books and either donates them to the library or resells them or arranges for recycle.... any money they make goes to "extras" for our library... might be worth checking out in your towns...

smiles Kim in N. Cal