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TIS FRIDAY AND THE WEEK IS A BLUR.  Glad it's Friday.  MOVIE NIGHT with popcorn tonight.  We were on the road quite a bit this week.  In and out of traffic...in and out of stores.  Wore a mask while shopping and disinfected my hands with wipes once back in the car. Sometimes I swab my nostrils with disinfectant wipes after shopping even after wearing a mask. This may not sound pleasant, but neither is getting sick.  

When my nose starts to get a tad bit stuffy, I drink an Emergen-C powder mix with spring water. I know the vitamin C combats colds and helps with immune health. I found a Emergen-C Elderberry.  Actually taste good.  Just drank some.

  

We couldn't get all our shopping done in one day so it spilled over into more than one.  That's three active days of shopping within the week with some fun mixed in there for good measure. Blessed to have no car troubles while the weather is bitter cold.  We managed to have a safe and successful week of shopping.  

         

The older I get, the tireder I find myself when driving so much.  We went to 5 different communities during the week to SHOP.  Alma, Wamego, Manhattan, St. Marys and Topeka.  I'm ready to stay HOME.  Need to work on the Dining room.  Oh please. 

Today, I will putz about the house polishing a silver-plated Tea and Coffee set that's tarnished. I'd like to polish it then place it on display on a tea table.  As I am morphing into a more simplistic way to decorate, I will hang onto some of the finer things around here.  

We purchased an antennae for the COTTAGE television.  Needed an extension cord and surge protector as well.  This took us the week to gather up all that was needed to make this a success so we can watch tv while at the COTTAGE.  My dear Husband got it together and we were able to watch a program while sitting in what will be our COTTAGE TV room.

We'd been to Manhattan as I had a mammogram.  Aren't those delightful?  ha.  It took longer to drive across town than to actually have the mammogram done.  I stood at the kiosk to check-out. That was a hoot as I touched the screen the entire table it was sitting on bounced with each touch.  Kind of made me have motion sickness as I bobbed my head to read the next step in filling out the check-in.  Finished not in record time.

My technician was very fast and friendly.  She didn't even bother to take me out for dinner before I stripped down to my undies.  Alright perhaps that's not funny to some, but if I don't exercise my sense of humor, I will cry.  I don't particularly like getting mammograms and this time was no exception.  My breast stuck to the tray you place your bosom on to have it filmed.  I suppose some of that is because the breast is squished making it stick to the plate.  I forgot to say cheese and smile while my body part was being x-rayed.

Mammograms are not a fun thing to do.  I haven't had one in about 5 years.  I debated getting a 3-D (breast tomosynthesis) one and probably should have, but went old school this time.  I'm not sure if my insurance covers the expenses of a 3-D or not.  Will have to check into this.  Medicare should pay for this as it's only about $60 more than what I had. 

Just read that you should avoid caffeine and salt one to two weeks before a mammogram.  Not having caffeine in your system helps with the tenderness and avoiding salt helps with water detention.  Don't schedule mammogram before or during a period.  Nobody told me this one until I just read it.

https://www.healthimages.com/10-tips-to-minimize-pain-during-mammograms/

Anywho, I was asked by the technician if I had had a vaccine within  the last month or so. Couldn't remember if she said if it were the last month or the last two months.  Might have been 60 days.  This took me by surprise.  Like a deer in headlights.  I hadn't.  I thought about it and asked her why they needed to know that AND she said because the lymphs by the breast enlarge causing the doctor's confusion about the condition of the breast's health.  huh?  They what?

I thought about that for a second...ummm that means after a vaccine such as the Co v id vaccine and boooooster the lymphs enlarge.  Last March and April after we got our co v id vacs, my Husband who was already having issues with enlarged lymph nodes in his neck and had been informed he has non-Hodgkins lymphoma began to experience additional pain in his neck.  

With additional enlargement, he was in discomfort causing more concern about non-Hodgkins lymphoma.  After several months of this additional pain he was ready to have the enlarged lymph removed.  We went to a surgeon to chat about having it removed and the doctor said if it were him he wouldn't have this done.  He said you already have non-Hodgkins lymphoma and having this lymph removed wasn't going to cure the NHL.  

I researched about with the removal of lymph nodes, the body can swell.  Edema.  If in the lymph system it's lymphedema.  Hubby changed his mind about the surgery.  His lymph has gone back down and he is not in so much discomfort.  Now I have put two and two together connecting the dots and believe the vac caused the additional enlargement of the nodes.  I understand that after a vac, the immune system is taxed.  The immune system is weakened.

LAST FEW DAYS IN A NUTSHELL:

*Purchased a new sweater on Monday and liked it so much went back and bought two more in different colors.  Super price being on clearance for $10 a piece.

*Purchased a much needed new paper shredder which I put off for months after burning up the motor in the nice paper shredder I had.  I can continue to thin out papers.  MOVING FORWARD. 

 

*Purchased a PHILLIPS television antennae so we can watch television at the COTTAGE without buying cable which would have been an additional expense that we don't need.  Tis hooked up and ready to use.

*Organic veggies and fruits from two locations.  Natural Grocers and Dillons.  
*Finding soy-free eggs meant going to 4 different stores as Natural Grocers was fresh out.  Driving the distance we had to on two different days was time consuming meaning we were out in traffic doing our thing.  NOW I need to consider if the chickens that laid these eggs were fed corn as corn is a GMO product.

I am such a dumb blonde.  Slow to be informed about eggs.  My hubby pointed out to me some soy-free eggs awhile back and the light kind of went on.  

Soy-free?  If chickens that laid these eggs ate soy then the soy shows up in the eggs they lay. Same thing about corn fed chickens.  Duh.  With the knowledge that corn is generally GMO then the chicks that eat corn will lay eggs containing GMO corn. 

So what have I gained if eating free range eggs laid by chickens that have been fed soy or corn? Not anything.  PAID more for the eggs.  Finding these soy-free and corn free eggs will be a HUGE challenge for me living in the FLINT HILLS buying store bought eggs.  I'm not sure I can find someone that sells these kinds of eggs.  MORE HOME WORK to do.

AT TIMES LIKE THIS, I ask should I be raising my own chickens?  Finding someone who sells eggs that are corn-free and soy-free will be a doozy to find.  My imagination begins to create vivid images of what could be.  

I start having visions about being a woman walking amongst her chickens that are within a small fenced-in yard as she tosses chicken feed to her lil chicks pecking at her feet while she's wearing a long dress with an apron.  What would I be feeding them in this small fenced in yard that the chicks are strutting about?  

I suppose I ought to be careful where I step as chickens excrete waste in this small imaginary yard.  Wearing a straw hat or bonnet isn't going to eliminate the waste issue.  Eliminate...get it?  That's cheesy humor.    

*Cashed in some old car batteries and scrap metal.  This meant going to the Industrial part of TOPEKA.  It's been years since we've done this.  Langleys has quite an operation going on there.

  
*Went to God's Storehouse and it wasn't on Tuesday for Senior Discount Day.  We were over to TOPEKA and wanted to stop by as it is one of my favorite THRIFT STORES to look around and shop.  Their prices have increased as some of their clothing was marked up to $7.50 for one article.  I bought brand new sweaters for $10 at Florence Adams.  Sometimes I would rather have NEW.

  
*Medical appointment.

*Multiple grocery store stops...Hy-Vee, Dillons, Sams, Hy-Vee, Hy-Vee, Hy-Vee, Natural Grocers, Walmart, Target, Menards, Dollar General, Heartland.

  
*Fueled the car also fueled the car.

*Ate out, ate out, and ate out.  
Sugar Creek for a Rachel Salad made of turkey, lettuce, other veggies like red onion and red cabbage, cheese and Thousand Island Salad Dressing.  
Froggy's for salad with chicken.  
AppleBees for salmon meal with broccoli and garlic mashed potatoes.  
Mexican Restaurant for spinach burrito.  
Long Horns for yet another salad with chicken.  
M.J.s for a steamer.  
Starbucks in here a few times for Hubby's coffee.  

 I know that's a lot of eating out, but when we are away from our HOME for several days while out of town then we eat out.  Partly because we are gone and partly because it's entertainment.  I do my best to eat a great deal of salad and drink H2O.  Brownie Points being made.   

WONDERFUL WEEK-END IS HERE.

SHALL SEE WHAT ALL I CAN GET DONE 

AS AN OLD WOMAN 

THAT STILL NEEDS TO GET THINGS DONE.

Blessings to you,
~d

"Enjoy today,

it won't come back."

  

 

THE INCREDIBLE EDIBLE EGG!

GOOD HEAVENS...I do believe I am one of those that is easily mesmerized by what the world tells me is healthy to eat and have no sense of what is really good for human consumption.  duh.  

Not again.  I have been an easy target.  I wanted to be healthy so I ate pretty much what was said to be healthy.  Taking no notice of what has been added to foods to make them taste super good because of weird sounding chemicals and additives being added.  Taking no notice as to what the chickens ate or the cows, etc.  Taking no notice of added sugars hidden by mysterious names. Taking no notice of added chemicals on the labels that I cannot pronounce.  Once again I have been deceived.  

It has been a very slow awakening about what is in the food we consume.  Of all things, I gave it little thought what chickens were fed which affects the eggs they produce also the actual chicken (poultry) when eaten.  So if they are eating old cooking oil from restaurants then they are eating unhealthy fats which contributes to unhealthy eggs and chicken.

We were shopping at Hy-Vee for BUY A HAM TO GET A FREE FROZEN TURKEY...Hubby walked over to my shopping cart and showed me a box of Ben Roberts' HERITAGE POULTRY & EGGS SOY-FREE eggs.  How can eggs have soy in them in the first place?  When the chickens eat whatever they are fed, the feed can have soy in it to fatten up the chicken that produces the eggs that are sold to consumers.  

The eggs have soy in them when the chickens eat feed that has soy in it.

I can look at this tid-bit of info as good to know.  TIP OF THE DAY.  

With having fibroid tumors, I was cautious to not eat SOY as it is a natural ESTROGEN that feeds fibroids.  Now I learn that I more than likely have been eating soy without knowing it.  It pays to know what kind of feed the chickens, turkeys, beef, etc. are being fed BECAUSE whatever they have been fed contributes to the quality of how they turn out.  By eating them, we end up being affected by what they ate.  We eat this NASTY STUFF when we eat them.

Remember the old sayings, "We are what we eat!" and "Food is our medicine."  If food is our medicine, then why aren't we all healthy?  Depending on the quality of the food determines much.  Nutrient dense foods that are nonGMO that we eat should be a priority, BUT THEN WE SHOULD ALSO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT IS BEING FED TO THE CREATURES WE EAT. 

What have I been eating and drinking all my life?  No wonder I have not been as healthy as I could have been.  I am somewhat taken aback that what I thought was healthy wasn't.

Those who are providing our foods in the food chain probably are not overly concerned about the damage their products do to humans, because the more money they make, the better they like it.  greed.

We owe it to ourselves to know what really is good for us.  How things are prepared and processed.  Just because something is cheaper priced than organic doesn't mean we have to agree with their product.

Okay...I wonder what other tid-bits of info I will come across that will shock the bejebbers out of me,

~d    

HAVE YOU DONE SOMETHING NICE FOR YOURSELF?

IT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE DIFFICULT TO THINK ABOUT SELF, does it?  If nothing else is said, we have a real BE KIND TO SELF campaign going on.  Not to be self centered, but being good to self has to be balanced.  When you are use to giving, giving, giving to so many others, being nice to self sometimes falls through the cracks.  It is necessary to be kind to oneself no matter what.

So I ask myself, what have I done nice to and for myself today?  PAUSE.  Think about it.  What? I drank my V8 this morning for my BREAKFAST so there are a few servings of vegetables and I did not go over board on lunch. I ate gluten-free chips and the bread used for the tuna fish sandwich was gluten free as well.  The eggs were free-range organic eggs.  Drinking iced tea and spring water.  This afternoon I will skip my nap and work upstairs decluttering on the house.  It's an ongoing process.  Some good 'ole exercise.  Happy thoughts and prayers.  

It is easy for me now to say I will not drink diet sodas or use artificial sweeteners.  Cutting back on actual sugars will take some work.  Limiting my intake takes discipline.  Actually it seems like so much really is a work of discipline... even what I think about and use my time on.  More vegetables and fruit.  Why adding this to my diet is so hard, I don't know, but it seems that I do not eat enough of these throughout the day.     

I'll be studying up on switching some lifestyle changes concerning preparation of foods. Knowing more about what to purchase, avoid, or add.  

Blessing the food I eat will continue.  Dear God Prayers will continue.   

OUR WEATHER IS GORGEOUS TODAY.  I will take a short walk and breathe in some fresh air. Today and tomorrow it will be like SPRING.  Too pretty to stay indoors all day.  

BUT I HAVE TO DO SOME INDOOR CHORES.  Of course.  Left over pot roast for supper.  Will start to warm it around 4 this afternoon so it's ready to eat around 6.

WALKING THE STAIRS will continue.  Slow stretches.  Dusting will continue.  Decluttering will continue.  This old lady may be boring, but I am for real.    

What have you done for yourself that's kind and nice?

HOME LIFE IS FOR ME,

🏠d

PRAISING GOD FOR MY DISHES

MY COFFEE PERCOLATOR is similar to this one in the illustration.  We had started to perk our coffee in the percolator to cut costs on coffee expenses.  We'd been using KEURIG PODS for the longest time and after figuring the budget we are taking a pause with the pods and the disposable cups with lids.

Perking and using REAL COFFEE CUPS.

We cut corners even more when I decided to take a break from coffee drinking to see if my blood sugar level goes down.  DAY FIVE here on the Prairie without my dark liquid that I sip throughout the day.  

It was a easy HABIT FORMING thing I looked forward to doing every day.  Mental conditioning and comfort food.  Who'd ever think that coffee is a food?  I did.  As many a morning I drank coffee instead of eating real breakfast food.  The weight did not come off.  Disheartening, but the way it is when having no thyroid and the meds don't work.

Beefing up my game.  I am doing floor stretches right on the Living room rug.  To cheer me I am going to play MUSIC.  No GYM MEMBERSHIP NEEDED at the time.  

FRIDAY NIGHT SPECIAL:  Last night, HUBBY and I watched the 1976 movie ROCKY.  It starts out kind of slow before interest kicks in.  Maybe I should say PUNCHES IN since he was a boxer.  The character ROCKY does start drinking raw eggs in the early morning.  I have no desire to do this, but could do scrambled eggs instead.  I was reading about raw eggs drank by early on athlete's over a 100 years ago.  EGGS are high in protein helping with the muscle build up. 

84 year old Body Builder Ernestine drinks egg whites everyday.  I don't believe I can do raw eggs period, but have some EGG FIT POWDER to mix in with my PROTEIN DRINK when I drink it.  I will have to become more dedicated to doing this then I have been.

This past week, Hubby has been working on the screened in porch roof.  Terrible leaking and wood rot.  Early mornings and evenings he's out there in the heat rejuvenating the structure.  BIG PROJECT.  My part in this is to take photographs and cheer him on.  Encourage him to avoid working in the afternoon heat to stay well.  Heat stroke is real and we do not need to experience it so we can say, we suffered a heat stroke.  He's removing tile and cement backer board and removing wood post plus all that was used on this years ago.  It wasn't done correctly and leaked.  The inside of the porch ceiling will have to be replaced as well.  The water warped it so badly it's ruined.

LOOKING INSIDE THE KITCHEN CUPBOARD where my dishes are, I started thanking GOD out loud for my dishes.  I am so glad to have them to use.  They sit so nicely in the cabinet.  Admiring them.  Imagine not having dishes.  The dirty dishes do pile up as do the pots 'n pans, but we have food that has dirtied them up.  We are blessed to have the dishes, pot 'n pans, glasses, silverware and huge coffee mugs that I am not using for the time being.

Praising GOD for everything in the house.  Thanking HIM for everything.  EVERYTHING.  Praising GOD for my dishes.  

We are staying HOME this week-end instead of going to an out of state birthday party.  I wish we could have gone, but we're social distancing.  Trying to come up with a way to see FAMILY later in the year.  If we rent a camper and stay at a camp ground, we could sleep, cook and use the restroom for breaks, then visit with family.  Praying about this and making plans.  Happy Birthday to my lil guy who turns 6 this month.    

His Momma is going to Home School him.  PAUSE.  I wish all my young Grandchildren were being HOME SCHOOLED this year.  I am concerned about COVID.  There may be a stand still come October and November if this virus becomes more active with school aged children.  Not very happy about how this is being handled across the country.  The encouragement to re-open schools during a pandemic is encouraging our children and teaching staff to get ill.  Well, you can't shut down school buildings...yes you can.

The devil comes as an angel of light.  Re-open the schools seems like a good thing to do?  I don't agree.  It's not wise and rather stupid.
d


Proverbs 1:7 - The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.

BREAKFAST ON THE PRAIRIE Omelette

OMELETTES for breakfast or brunch has become the norm at out HOME.  Going for organic eggs these days.  A hot and tasty meal for us old folks on the Prairie.  Hardy and affordable.  No animal was harmed in the making of this meal.  grins.

My Grandparents back in the day did not shy away from eating eggs.  Just about every morning they had fried eggs fixed in a skillet.  Even ate bacon and drank black coffee.  Grandpa lived to be in his 80s and Grandma into her 90s.  Both could eat whatever they wanted and did not have huge health issues, not over weight and lived out of debt.

Together they raised a family of 5 girls that all grew up to have families of their own.  Here I sit, one of their Granddaughters that has grandchildren.  Praise the LORD, I can eat eggs.  The health benefits are nutritious.

Eggs are a very good source of inexpensive, high-quality protein. More than half the protein of an egg is found in the egg white, which also includes vitamin B2 and lower amounts of fat than the yolk. Eggs are rich sources of selenium, vitamin D, B6, B12 and minerals such as zinc, iron and copper.

Blessings to you,

d  

RUNNING LOW ON EGGS!

I won't be running to the store for a while.  When the grocery list gets really long then I may make a trip.  It is an eery thought to me as I am social distancing and avoiding public places like the grocery store.

Doing without might not seem so daunting.

Hubby is taking a nap and I'm getting ready to do something other than sitting here.  Tis SATURDAY and the wind is blowing hard.  Temps are nice with a blue sky.

On Monday the guidelines will be adjusted as the end of 15 days to slow down the spread comes to a halt.  I suppose it will be extended.  COVID 19 cases are starting to show up in our area.

THINK I need to order some powdered eggs to fall back on if I can get my hands on some.  

Using other things instead of eggs is doable.

Blessings to you and yours,

d

The Art Of Cooking and Serving---PUFFY OMELET Recipe

For alot of reasons, I always have a love affair with eggs around Easter time. Easter seemed to come so early this year...that's alright. I will think about eggs for months to come.

So glad you have stopped by for a visit!

Yesterday on my blog, I posted a Thursday Spring-Summer Menu from the old 1926 copy of The ART OF COOKING AND SERVING by SARAH FIELD SPLINT. She was one of McCall Magazine's Food Department Editors.

I'll share with you what she has said about eggs and post the recipe for PUFFY OMELET that she listed for the Thursday Spring-Summer Breakfast meal.

Chapter VIII

Eggs

Eggs are an important source of iron, phosphorous and vitamins, but they are not a complete food in themselves and should be used in combination with other foods which supplement them.

When eggs are used for a breakfast dish--- scrambled, fried, baked, poached or in a omelet---their possibilities are merely begun. With a cream sauce and a few hard cooked eggs one has the makings of an endless range of luncheon and supper dishes. An ingenious cook will add anything to eggs from minched green pepper or pimento to cheese and mushrooms and, presto, with a pretty garnish she has something to be proud of.

A hostess famous for her salads always introduces hard cooked eggs as a finishing touch and as an emergency measure usually keeps one or two on hand ready cooked. Eggs offer any number of possibilities for salads.

In soups, eggs are a bit of culinary wisdom everyone should cultivate. A raw egg added at the last minute, or a chopped hard cooked egg lends both flavor and nourishment to soup.

Crisco is the ideal fat to use in egg dishes of all kinds because of its delicate flavor. For frying, scrambling or making omelets eggs properly cooked in Crisco are apt to be more easily digested than when cooked in a fat which burns easily.

SUCCESS SECRETS

1. For "hard cooked" eggs allow them to stand for twenty to thirty minutes in water kept just below the boiling point. For "soft cooked" eggs allow them to stand from five to eight minutes. Never allow the water in which eggs are cooked to reach the boiling point, as it makes the white tough and leathery.

2. The whites of the eggs beaten until stiff and "folded in," as for omelets and souffles, make the mixture puff up and become light.

3. Include eggs frequently in your menu. They are especially valuable as a body building food because of the protein and mineral matter they contain.

4. Use only strictly fresh eggs for boiling and poaching.

5. Test eggs for freshness: (a) if they rattle when shaken they are stale.

(b) When placed in a glass of water a perfectly fresh egg will sink to the bottom, a half stale one will rise slightly at one end and if very stale it will float.

6. Buys eggs when they are plentiful and cheap, and put them away in water glass solution, or pack them in sawdust against the season when the price is high.

7. Use Crisco, instead of butter, for all egg cookery. Eggs require slow cooking and butter is apt to burn before they are done, making them unsightly and indigestible.

8. Wash dishes in which eggs are cooked first in cold water to loosen the egg, then in hot water.

9. Keep eggs in a cool place, but not in the refridgerator unless in a covered dish, because their porous shells readily absorb odors.

Recipe for PUFFY OMELET

5 egg yolks

1 teaspoon salt

Few grains pepper

Few grains cayenne

5 tablespoons hot water

5 egg whites

1 tablespoon Crisco

Beat egg yolks until thick and add salt, pepper, cayenne and hot water.

Mix well.

Fold in lightly the stiffly beaten whites until thoroughly blended.

Melt Crisco in an iron frying pan or omelet pan.

Pour in the egg mixture and spread evenly.

Cook over a slow fire, moving the pan occasionally so as to distribute the heat evenly.

When a delicate brown underneath put in a moderate oven (350 degrees F.), and bake 10 to 15 minutes or until top is firm.

Fold and serve on a hot platter.

Garnish with parsley.

I learned a thing or two about eggs that I hadn't heard before. Eggs...does the body gooooood!!!

God Bless you and have a nutritious week-end.

~Deanna~

PS

With so much hustle and bustle in this ole world...it can become very easy to get swept away in the busyness that easily manifest in today's home, life, activities, etc. As I was typing this post up, I was thinking that there is a peace present in my life when I just slow the heck down and enjoy what I'm reading and typing about from this 1926 book.

Improper planning and not allowing enough time to get from point A to point B makes a TIRED life. So today I will make a huge attempt to just slow the heck down and allow my nerves to unwind.

Be a good egg and do the same.