Erg. I haven’t felt this way in a few weeks.
I ate a healthy breakfast! Open Faced Veggie Omelet – with fresh grown chives and mushrooms. Hurrah!
The headache I woke up with did not go away with coffee, with water, with breakfast so I took ibuprofen, and rested for an hour and it still did not go away. Once I was outdoors in the sun two hours later, it subsided. Grrrr.
While outdoors my asthma was pretty gnarly. I haven’t needed the nebulizer in a while, but I did today. My doctor put me on a daily inhaler. I’ve been using that this past week. Not sure if it is making a difference or not yet, but I’m trying.
I also had a really strange (new) instance of being really really shaky (hands shaking like crazy) and unsteady in the afternoon. I took my blood sugar reading and it was low (for me—my lowest reading since I started doing random tests.) HWMMS is the one who told me to test my level. And then told me to eat something. And then told me to take the test again 15 minutes later. HWMMS is a good advocate. I don’t recall ever being that shaky for “no reason.” And no, my level wasn’t LOW by any means, it was however low for me.
HWMMS thought perhaps the tight chest and breathing issues was from cleaning lots of dusty areas in the garage and mudroom today. Sounds reasonable!
Oh with that said, we finally cleaned and organized the pile of WHAT IS THIS DOING HERE on the shelves in the garage. They are mostly filled with “garden” stuff. Organic fertilizers, pots, bug spray, my Sloggers I forgot I had, dried calendula flowers – you know, a bit of everything.
Along with this task – the washing of the gnomes.
I don’t have a gnome problem YOU DO! (Hahaha. Nervous laughter.)
Including the 6 new wee solar light gnomes already placed in the front porch rose garden, we have a total of 40 gnomes. Honestly, I could have double the amount and still not be satisfied. The darn fellas are so adorable.
Turning the conversation away to a different healthy addiction…
Chive blossom vinegar is the nectar of the goddesses.
Just dry the flowers and add them to white wine vinegar for one of the most magical elixirs you can imagine coming from your garden. Shake and leave in the jar for a few weeks and then strain the flowers. I love love love it drizzled on fresh tomato/basil caprese salad. Plus it’s so darn pretty in pink!
This year we have enough blossoms for 12 – 16 oz bottles. YIPPEE! (Very special people shall be gifted! I might actually find smaller bottles to give to more people.)
BECAUSE I want all the blossoms, this happens.
0.5 oz of organic fresh chives at the supermarket cost $2. Which pretty much means, if we could sell all the chives in our herb garden right now at that price, we’d be *at least* $1000 richer. You see, I have a chive addiction. If I could have a yard full of chives I would roll around in them all day like a cat in heat. THIS YEAR I planted double the amount we already have so next year we get more blossoms. (Wait, this is what I did last year too!)
I was wrong. Only 9 pounds of chives harvested this round. Not $1000 worth. Closer to $600.
AND 4 pounds of parsley.
Call me crazy, but these are healthy addictions. The garden gets me outdoors. And moving. And puts healthy things in my belly. And the gnomes, well, they look over the garden with love.
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