SMOOTH OPERATOR

~SMOOTH OPERATOR~

You can be one rather easily.

With a smooth SMOOTHIE.

Healthy turns casual and delicious to sip.

Can I get an AMEN?  AMEN.

Blend altogether and serve.

There's nothing wrong with making HOMEMADE SMOOTHIES at HOME.  I've made a few, but think I would benefit with tasting some that are made at a shop so I get a general idea what I'd like to copy at HOME.  

TO ASSIST ME IN THIS HEALTH JOURNEY, I PURCHASED A 2025 BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS MAGAZINE ABOUT smoothies FRUITS, VEGETABLES, PROTEINS & MORE.  

It will become a helping tool for me to making nutritious smoothies.

If I can start out with one smoothie a week, then I might gain some confidence to increase the smoothies each week.  🥛

The magazine is more like a book without advertisements.  I take that back as the inside front cover is a ad for BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS REALTY and the back cover for PETA and WALMART.  Throughout the magazine are very nicely done pictures per each smoothie.  A nice companion to have for someone that is new to this HEALTH KICK.

I believe I can visit a SMOOTHIE SHOP in Manhattan when I go for all day shopping trips. Perhaps have a smoothie instead of a full blown meal.  Tis doable.  

Hubby is going to get a hair cut in Manhattan.  I believe I will go along and then afterwards get a SMOOTHIE for a LUNCH substitute.

 

Some might call a milkshake a SMOOTHIE.  REMEMBER THE DELANY SISTERS?  The Delany Sisters had vanilla milkshakes for their evening meal.  Sounds like a winner to me.  Each lived well into their hundreds.  d. Sadie (Sarah)109.  d. Bessie (Annie Elizabeth) 104.

 I am so impressed with how these two lived their lives.

HERE's TO LIVING GOOD CLEAN LIVES without apologizing for it.  God is still on the throne and prayer changes things.

~d

THE WEEK IS OFF AND RUNNING and SMOOTHIES TO MAKE

IT SEEMS LIKE I HAVE A VERY PRODUCTIVE, ENERGETIC DAY with the next day having nothing to give.  Had one of those days so I did a little laundry and rested. Kaputzski.  

I stayed indoors all day.  Didn't even poke my head outside to say BOO!👻

Stayed in my comfy housecoat looking like a fright.  Took a NAP.  Researched a great deal. Phoned my Mom and Sis.  Going to watch a movie.  Looked over the bills.  Figured what to do this week to come.  In a nutshell, I did very little.  

This past week was the 17th anniversary of our daughter and baby granddaughter coming to live with us after her husband abandoned them.  It doesn't seem possible that this much time has passed, but sure enough it has been 17 years.  It was a difficult time that passed turning into a much better life for the girls.  Praise God.  Praise God.

Here I sit in our tiny COTTAGE 17 years older.  Much has happened.  TIME to move on and live in the present.

On Saturday, we journeyed to a Cross Country Meet watching our Granddaughter win first place.  Excited for her win.  It was a difficult course of endurance.  She did very well.  

Exciting win.  Beautiful day for a run.  

Walking some of the course dirtied my shoes like never before.  The dust was a gray film that I'd wipe off later. 

Guess we need rain.

Cryptic notes.
THE WEEK IS OFF AND RUNNING.  HOT CHOCOLATE FOR BREAKFAST.  
Plans of going to TOPEKA to get Hubby's phone fixed are in order.  Gotta write out some bills and place them in the mail.  
Of course more laundry and some things need placed in order.  Eating well and watching the sun rise and set.  

Hubby is still working on hooking the tub up.  Water pipes being dealt with.  Soon, very soon, a soaking bath will happen.  PTL.  I will stand in the bathroom in awe that this is ready to go when it takes place.

Believe I would benefit from making delicious, nutritious SMOOTHIES.  Gathering some recipes and getting the ingredients lined up.  For the greens I'll use cucumbers, celery, kale, spinach. Fruits will be blueberries, apple, pineapple, strawberries.  Whatever I have on hand. ✋

HAVE TO CUT STEMS OFF THE COLEUS ON THE PORCH FOR WINTERING.  Running out of time.  A frost will come and it will finish off my beautiful coleus.  I'd hate to lose them.

Our Presidential election is fast approaching.  The excitement just about cannot be contained. Predictions abound.  Pretty sure each voter already knows who they will VOTE for.  In 20 years, if I am so blessed to still be alive, I wonder how I will feel about this time in history.  

~d  

 

SMOOTHIES

Cup of Yogurt

Cup of Organic milk

Splash of apple cider vinegar

Touch of honey

Handful of organic Kale 

Organic Avocado

Full stalk of Celery

8 oz. can of crushed Pineapple

2 small Apple

1 Banana

1/4 cup Peanut powder

Made in the NINJA.  Enough for two people.  Thick and creamy.  Sipped on it for a couple of hours.

The base each time is yogurt, organic milk, kale, avocado, splash of apple cider vinegar, honey then add fruit.  Change it up a bit each time.  

SMOOTHIES are a delicious way to add some goodness to your HEALTH and LIFE.

Healthy Blessings,

🏡d

BACK TO BASICS and MIDDLE OF THE WEEK SAINT PATTY's DAY

I FORGOT TO WEAR GREEN TODAY.  

Please don't pinch me.  I bite.

I can hear the wind howling this fine day 

in the middle of the week.  

This gloomy day wasn't so gloomy even though it's rainy, chilly sweater weather with very grey skies.  I got out of the house and took a long drive through a large park on my way to the grocery store.  Need to get some more organic fruits and veggies.  Hubby picked out some steaks and I glanced through the fruits and vegetables.  My back was hurting so I rode a handy dandy electric cart and scooted about the grocery store.  

Organic rainbow colored carrots.  I've only ate orange carrots.  Grew up on them.  Now it's time to try purple and white plus orange carrots.  This will be interesting.  I'm being adventurous and going to actually eat purple carrots.  A kosher, gluten-free pizza crust for Friday Night Pizza and a movie into the basket.  Organic onions and miniature cucumbers for salad there you go. Looked over what organic products they do have in this store and was surprised at their selection.  All kinds of organic canned beans.  

Afterwards we milked a cow...went to ALDIs for organic milk.

Beautiful scenery on the way HOME.  Drove a back road and felt like I was in a fairy tale. So pretty and no traffic.  Trees are starting to get some green buds on them.  Daffodils are up and smiling yellow sunshine.  Beautiful nature.  

HOME now and resting.  Will go here in a bit to RETIREMENT COTTAGE to walk and HUBBY will work some on demolishing the bathroom.  There's formica on the walls that needs to come off.  He's thinking about pulling the old icky vanity out for the trash to haul off tomorrow.  I'll go through a few boxes and see if there is anything that needs pitched with trash day being Thursday.  Treating HUBBY to tacos and enchiladas.  I think I'll have soft tacos and iced tea for lunch.  

Then HOME to rest, do some laundry and paperwork.  I started taking inventory of extra bedding and think I will have to relocate it elsewhere in the house as I miss the cabinets they're in for storing the grooming supplies.  More tweaking to do. My mind is still trying to figure out how to fit in this house the best we can.

Decided to round up all the loose snapshots and placed them in the drawers of my victorian secretary.  That means the main floor closet will be freed up to store coats like it was designed for.  Back to basics.

We had our first SMOOTHIE from the NINJA.  It actually tasted pretty good.  Handful of kale, 2 stalks of celery, cup of yogurt, 2 tablespoons honey, 6 strawberries, 4 very small apples, 1/4 cup of apple cider vinegar, and some organic milk.  HUBBY raved about how good it tasted which was a surprise to me.  He was surprised that it was so good.  I'm proud of the changes we're making toward health and food.  Great afternoon snack or maybe next time it will be my breakfast. 

We had great news about HUBBY's CT Scan and blood work.  Great news.  Was so happy about the results!  The doctor called and said he'd like to do more labs in 3 months.  CT Scan looked good.  Hubs has a kidney stone and arthritis in the neck.  This is where I believe his discomfort in the neck is coming from.  No enlarged lymph nodes elsewhere in his body.  No enlarged spleen.  His blood work looked very good!  We were so happy.  

Our regular physicals will be in April.  A great time to get checked over.  Praying about losing weight and I will be curious how much has come off after eating differently when I weigh in at the doctors in two weeks.  No fooling.  April Fool's Day will not be a joke stepping on the scales and having blood work done.  Please don't make me cry.

I am huge.  This I know and am willing to own it.  I am what I am.  

I have a ways to go, but I will be working at it from here on out.  A different way of eating and I pat myself on the back that this is possible.  

Some times we have to pause and give thanks.  This is one of those times.  BACK TO BASICS.  Living simply will take a plan to create.  Praying for strength and blessings.  Most Gracious Heavenly Father, I ask that you protect us, guide and direct us.  Strengthen us and help us to eat and drink the proper foods and beverages.  Health to our bones.  Make us healthy, wealthy and wise.  In Jesus Name I pray, AMEN.  

I dug out of SPRING GREEN storage tubs Bunnies and plastic eggs.  A few Nic-nacs to sit out about the house.  I really do like some decorations around the house.  To me they add cheer.  Easter is about new beginnings and CHRIST rising from the dead.  Hallelujah.  HE is risen indeed.  Not a myth or fairy tale, HE is real and has risen from the dead.  What a beginning this is.

Bunnies, decorating eggs, little lambs, crosses.  A LORD that is the lover of our souls risen from the dead and sits at the right hand of the Father.  Abundant LIFE for us is possible.  Abundantly.  

Blessings to you.

HOME LIFE is for me,

🏡d