Followers, Farmacy & Food

Wednesday  July 4, 2012
Quail Run Lot 15
Wesley Chapel, Florida

 

I know, I fudged the spelling a little but all for the sake of alliteration don’cha know.  After all, I am a member of POEM.  No idea what I’m talking about….look here.

 

I enjoy Following my Followers

I haven’t been able to figure out how to know who was just added to my blog followers when the numbers go up.  Seems like it should be the most recent picture top left of the group but that doesn’t seem to be the case.  If you know the secret here, clue me in.  

It’s also interesting my reaction when the number of followers goes down…..I wonder who left and why. Did I do something?  Or not do something??  Feels kind of like a friend I don’t know well yet moved and didn’t tell me.  Isn’t that silly. Especially since usually only about 25% at the most of followers ever comment so I can get to know them.   That’s sad since I would love to know them all.   More chance to meet them on the road or somewhere in my travels.

Anyway, enough pondering. 

 

I struggle mightily through my run Tuesday morning. 

It is 75 at 6:30 in the morning and the humidity is like soup.  I think this is the most exhausted I have ever felt during and after running.  Can I make it through an entire summer in Florida and not have to give up running?  I sure hope so. 

Today is a recoup day especially for David after going going going all day Monday.  He is tired all day and only manages to walk up to the office and get his wifi code and a box to sort his myriad of medicines into.   Take a look at this.  Isn’t it AMAZING!   He calls it his pharmacy in a box.  There are 21 pill bottles there.  WHEW!

 

 

 

We do manage to make a delicious black bean salad with avocado lime dressing that is delicious.  They were serving tastings of it yesterday at Whole Foods.  And they talked me into it for sure. 

 

 

 

 

They served the salad with these baked corn chips and they were so delicious we used them too.  No oil but they taste fantastic! They are a definite will buy again.

Here’s the recipe if you are interested.

Ingredients

1 ripe avocado, mashed
1/4 cup chopped cilantro
2 tablespoons lime juice
2 (15-ounce) cans no-salt-added black beans, rinsed and drained
4 cups shredded romaine lettuce
1 cup grape tomatoes, halved
1 cup corn kernels, fresh or thawed if frozen
1 small red bell pepper, chopped
1/2 cup toasted pumpkin seeds

Method

In a large bowl, whisk together avocado, cilantro and lime juice until blended. Add beans, lettuce, tomatoes, corn, pepper, pumpkin seeds and toss until evenly coated.

Nutrition Per serving: 360 calories (100 from fat), 11g total fat, 1.5g saturated fat, 0mg cholesterol, 35mg sodium, 52g total carbohydrate (18g dietary fiber, 6g sugar), 16g protein

We have a yummy blueberry smoothie for dessert and finish the night off with Shadow Country and the dishes.

 

Wednesday is another hot one 

We spend nearly the entire day inside reading, napping, and eating.   We get a couple of chores done though so that is good.  But they didn’t seem like photo opportunities so there aren’t many pictures.

In trying to think of all the things that should be taken care of before David goes into the hospital given that his response/recovery is really unknown, I came upon the fact that the trailer dolly tires are going on 7 years old.  They show some odd wear so being the tire fanatic that I am, I decide we needed to replace them now so that they are ready to go when we are after all this Moffitt stuff is concluded.  That of course means finding tires and getting them ordered and finding a place to have them put on.  All accomplished today.   GOOD JOB!!

Problem now is that without taking Winnona over to the tire place so she can pull the dolly we’ll have to take the tires off here and then remount them ourselves since Ruby has no trailer hitch.  Much more trouble for us but what can you do???

While trapped inside we also take down the AC covers and clean them and the filter screens.  Yuck!  I thought we did this every 6 months but that sure was a lot of dirt that is apparently in our air that we are breathing.  Aren’t you glad I didn’t take a picture of that!

 

I’ve been keeping a journal for years

 

I prefer a large book as opposed to the little 5X7 type.  So mine are usually at least 8X10 and sometimes larger.  Somewhere my personal packrat, alias DGB, found an old Record book and brought it home thinking I could use it.  Why not?  It smelled kind of musty so I gave it a Jasmine essential oil treatment which fixed that problem right up.  It had been in a window apparently with some other things stacked on top of it and everything around the stack had faded.  Who cares?   But I’d been thinking it might be nice to do something to the cover. 

In our partnership, I’m the ideas person and David is the execution – mostly.  So I determine that “someone” should draw a picture of Winnona and put it on the front.   Today, stuck inside, seems like the day. 

 

David is actually a very good artist and almost never uses that talent.  Me, I’m an artist wanna be and I mean badly wanna be.  Seems to me seriously unfair that he has this talent he doesn’t use and I, who would definitely use it A LOT, can hardly draw a straight line with a ruler.  I’d love to do nature journals with colored pencil drawings all through them and I’ve tried but the results are just too pathetic.  

Anyway, David humors me.  He does a sketch of Winnona which I then trace with black ink as in a coloring book – that I can do.  It’s just what I want to liven up this old book.   Those are not shadows on the front.  They are the original color of the book and everything around them is faded.  The picture above is with my past two journals for comparison.

Here are some close ups so you can see a few of my favorite details.

Notice it does not say Winnebago and even the Duckie brothers got included.

 

In the late afternoon, we have a little rain shower, very little, but it does cool things off enough that we could actually sit outside on the patio for the first time in at least a month.  That was very nice.

 

We hope telling our story will help others in our situation or to avoid it.

Later we come inside and watch a TED talk on Diet and Cancer.  It is very interesting and it turns out that the two major drugs David took as part of his targeted therapy for 18 weeks are anti-angiogenesis.   I’ve included the link.  There seem to be things we can definitely do to decrease our cancer risk.  Hope you’ll take a look.  We would love to help others avoid this path we are having to walk down.