Almost didn't recognize myself

 Just for fun I spent part of the evening going back to 2007 in this blog and reading my entries for the whole year.  Just Wow.  I was sure one darn hard worker, I can tell you that.  Very independent too but then I think I always have been.  The sad thing is that most all the pictures and videos that I attached are all gone.  But I did enjoy reliving some old memories and getting to know the me of yesteryear.  

I don't know why it is so hard to just write a post weekly.  I think so much happens in our lives that when you go so long its hard to think of what is important enough to write about.  I have always enjoyed writing.  I still write my column for the local weekly paper from time to time.  I do book reviews and its sort of my personal blog with me updating things like guild activities, or the farmers market, or something going on with my weaving studio.  

I would like to make myself a promise to log in and every weekend find a few minutes to put some thoughts down and a bit of update on just daily stuff.  Maybe I can look back and read it 10 years from now, if I can still operate a computer.  LOL  

So topic next time is my looms.  I AM the loom whisperer. 

A minor correction here

 The last post was about what I thought was a reaction with my Alpha Gal.  Turns out I was wrong.  I had a brown recluse spider bite,  ended up going to Dr. and getting put on some antibiotic and prednisone.  Took over a month to heal up and now have a bit of a divot in my rt bicep and small nodules that I can feel.  Not sure if I should have a Dr. check it again or not  I am assuming they are scar tissue.  Anyway I am continuing on eating a bit of bacon occ. and some foods with some dairy.  So far so good.  Have no desire to ever eat beef.  In fact I am researching and thinking of trying to go Keto for a spell and see how I feel.  I would love to loose about 15 pounds but also I am feeling that there are some health benefits here that we all need.  No sugars and minimal carbs.  I will get back on that.  In mean time I feel like I am on the go constantly while back up home.  Spending a hot summer here and will head back to Texas in November.  Till later..

Ahhh The gift that keeps on giving

 I believe I have mentioned before that I have Alpha-Gal which in from a tick bite.  I have had this for almost 5 years now and have done well managing it with my diet of no mammal meats and later no dairy.  I don't tolerate gluten, or wheat very well ether, as I get hoarse and have a funky smell in my nose.  Anyway, last labs done in the fall showed no allergy to beef or pork and my AG number was down to normal.  Well I have been eating very small amounts of bacon this winter and no problem,  then this past week I think I filled my histamine bucket to the top and it ran over.  Had some bacon, and some probable hidden dairy plus gluten overload.  And no one knows what will trip it over the top.  Ended up with a pretty bad case of angeoedema which is just a swelling into the tissues with the area being red, hot, painful, and very itchy at same time.  I have had regular hives but nothing like this.  takes up my entire upper arm. Trip to Urgent care and put on Prednisone.  Taking Benadryl.   But this to shall pass.  Lesson learned, don't pay any attention to the labs as they Lie. 

So just throwing that out here to record.  We are planning on heading back to Texas in a week.  2 weeks ago Al had a pretty bad TIA and was in hosp a couple days but no brain bleed or clots.  So we are making sure every day is used wisely and I need to get him back to the coast before something happens again and he won't be able to travel.  Oh, today is his 90th birthday!  Cruise ship is from our trip 2019. So glad we went when we did. 

Tuna fish??

Chose this handsome fellow because I am missing Texas this week.  We came back "UP" home a week ago just before the big blizzard of 2022.  Well it did snow with ice under it and we stayed stuck at home for 5 days till streets clear.  Anyway had to come home to get some medical appointments out of the way,  get car serviced, and get taxes turned into our tax guy.

Did you know you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna a fish?
 

Loving Palacios Texas

 These are a couple favorite pictures I took of the bay.  We have traveled to see a few other towns on different bays but come back to ours and think its about the best so its much easier to just drive a mile or so and walk on our little beach area and if its to chilly we just sit in the car and watch for the shrimp boats.  I have pictures on my cell phone I need to download to the computer so I can share pictures from the marina of all the shrimp boats.  For this land lubber this is all new stuff for me.  

We continue to work on the house.  Think we are done having to pay for work.  Had our handyman put new siding and roof on the little shed in back yard.  It looks really good.  I am painting a little at a time.  I did the dining room,  Al said "You aren't going to do the whole living room are you?"  I said "Oh no, as I hid my paint roller behind my back"  So I just painted a portion at a time.  Only painted a bit every 2 or 3 days.  Its all done now.  Next week I will tackle my bedroom.  Have a gal of gray that is a bit dark but nice and a gallon of white so going to mix in a big bucket to get a soft gray then just do a bit at a time.  I learned how to mend spackling areas where there are small cracks by using a paper towel and dabbing it in the "mud" and dabbing to create spackles on the crack  Works pretty well 

It is close to end of January,  have had only one light frost here.  Will be a shocker in a couple weeks when we head back up home for a bit.  Will add more stuff later.  Need to work on my New Years Resolution, which was to update all my passwords.  I am almost done.  I am making up crazy pass words for each place that I have to make a code list {or 2} to keep in safe place to log on myself.  

Till next time: Blessed are the cracked, for they let the sunshine in.