MY BODY IS SCREAMING AT ME as my back aches a bit from gardening. Resting my back in the recliner feels awesome. The drive HOME this evening was delightful as it started raining as we left the COTTAGE. The timing was excellent. We had spent time at the COTTAGE working, got finished what we had set out to do, had loaded up to go HOME and it started to sprinkle.
A very light rain came down and that fragrant KANSAS RAIN smell was happening. What a delightful event.
Our day was very full as Hubby worked some on the ENTRYWAY and I researched on the computer about health issues. We loaded the car with gardening tools and some other boxes that need to be removed from the premises. A trip to Manhattan needed to take place to purchase some more grout as Hubby ran out. We went to Menards, Starbucks, Home Depot and Target.
While at Home Depot I looked at their shrubs and plants. GORGEOUS MUMS. Just about decided on YEWS for the front flowerbed at the COTTAGE. These plants would be about the size and height that I was thinking about to fill in the flowerbed space.
Drove across the Flint Hills to the COTTAGE to unload some things, do some laundry and work in the flowerbed. Hubby used the weed whacker to trim some over grown grass in the backyard and I did my best to pop the Heirloom Irises with purple blooms out of the flowerbed in front of the porch. The soil was extremely HARD. Too hard to quickly work at this task. I had to labor at it taking my dear sweet time very slow and steady.
I struggled popping these Iris beauties out of the hardened ground. Had to go inside the house to cool off and check on the laundry. I just about don't have it to do what needs to be done.
Managed to pop out all the Heirloom Irises and stare at the messy flowerbed dreaming about how it should look. Daughter will take these Irises and do something with them.
The soil in the flowerbed was so hard making it difficult to pop the Irises. I managed and stood there eyeballing the soil and talking to it about how it will be whipped into shape. There is still much to do to BEAUTIFY this place. Hubby and I had a business meeting in front of the flowerbeds and agreed about what needs to be done. Now to get this all done.
While I do the laundry each day, I'll work some on these beds. I'm getting close to being caught up on the dirty laundry. It doesn't take long to get far behind when it comes to laundry. I always feel so much better when the laundry is caught up. Waiting for that blast of feel good when I come to the bottom of the laundry baskets. Between my husband and myself, I wonder how on earth do we dirty so many pieces of clothing? Same with filling the waste cans. In no time the waste cans need emptied again. Just two old people and it seems like it never ends.
TIME TO HEAD HOME to eat a late supper and relax some. Maybe watch some television. Thankful that we got as much done as we did. What a feeling.
When I was researching earlier about thyroid health issues, I came across an article about thyroid issues that come from having eaten ground beef that came from around the neck of cows. The ground beef may have some of the cow's thyroid in it and when eating this it might cause too much thyroid hormone for your body causing one's thyroid numbers to go whacky.
I haven't paid attention to which part of the cow our ground beef comes from. Instead we have been trying to buy grass-fed beef to avoid cattle that has been fed bioengineered foods, chemicals and other kinds of hormones.
I may have messed up AGAIN thinking because we were buying and eating grass-fed beef that we were doing a great thing for our health, but hadn't taken into account which part of the cow the ground beef came from meaning we could be eating parts of the cow that will cause health issues even if it is from a grass-fed cow.
I have had a roller coaster ride through the years with my TSH numbers being unstable. I wonder if my numbers are unstable because I have eaten ground beef with too much thyroid in it? Makes me wonder.
Not sure how you can tell what part of the cow the ground beef came from unless you buy only certain parts of the cow that's labeled.
THEN, I read that when eating Kosher, you shouldn't eat the cut of beef from the sciatic nerve area in the backside of the cow because it's very fatty plus some other interesting exotic details about what happens when eating this part of the cow. MOOOve over sexy.
More time is needed to research all about cuts of beef. What you should eat and what should be avoided.
TODAY, I started another round of eating the DANIEL DIET. How'd that go? Pretty well for day one. No Breakfast. Lunch was a huge salad. Snack was unsweetened iced green tea. Supper was cabbage and potatoes. Water to drink. Day two will be more veggies, fruit, legumes, some olives and black beans.
21 days on the Daniel Diet. I'll have to remind myself that I can do this and 21 days isn't an eternity. I am not deprived. I'm blessed. I can do this Daniel Diet and be better off when all is said and done.
Some tea and water. Fruits and vegetables. Legumes and nuts allowed. No dairy. No meat. No grains. No sugar. It can be done. Some weight should come off, cholesterol and blood pressure should improve. A1c should lower. This all would benefit my health.
May this week go super well and we get lots done. Praise the LORD.
~d
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