I apologize, yet again. I just can't believe how fast the days go by when you are doing nothing, except for sweeping up one million maggots. Our life is just too humdrum. I hear about my sister, my kids, my friend, who just got back from Panama for heaven's sake, and all the activities they are all doing and I feel like such a slug. I do nothing. Nada. Diddlysquat. I don't even do house chores. Yet again it is proving to me that the less pressure you have the less you get done. Everyone that was coming next week to visit, are not coming. One due to money, the others due to unreliability of road openings. Can't blame them.
Well I am finishing up the third week of no eating. Well let me qualify that. Almost no eating. I have had two meals in the last three weeks but hardly any food the rest of the time. I have kept my numbers below six and mostly in the fours. For example, yesterday I didn't eat til around three. I had a smallish bowl of lettuce with a dusting of raspberry dressing. Then Monte and Ange ordered pizza and onion rings for dinner. I took a pizza cutter and cut about one inch of veg pizza off a slice point and took a minuscule onion ring. It was teeny tiny. And that was it. That is my typical eating day. I am determined, absolutely determined to make that goal of low enough A1c at the end of the month to get a six month prescription. After the cruise I am going to eat a diabetic way of eating but not so severe. This current way can't be healthy. One thing though, I am dropping weight like crazy. Of course I was so fat it doesn't show much yet, just a lot more wrinkles everywhere! Lol!!!
Well since I started this post the housecleaner showed up and Ange and I dashed out to Nesgaards and bought a lovely on sale pot to transplant the hibiscus in. She is so root bound you can't water her. It just runs right out the bottom. So tonight we are going to transplant her. I think she will be a lot happier. I got a reddish ceramic pot that kind of matches the flowers.
I got a call from Jeni, my brother's daughter. She grew up here Port. She is now in her late forties and a real spit fire!!! Her boys are 15 and 13, the nicest kids you would ever meet. She texted me to tell me she was in town visiting one of her best friends she knew from before. I have mentioned her before as they have been to town a number of times. They invited me over to Heather's place for a visit last night.
I always have 8" tin foil cake pans and Pilsbury brownie mix (I defy anyone to make better brownies than Pilsbury!). I get both in bulk from the dollar store. In half an hour you have brownies, with or without nuts (I always keep a bag in the freezer) with one egg, a bit of oil and water. You can make a gift, dessert, forbidden snack etc...so easily. Yesterday I made two pans...one with nuts and one with a peanut butter icing and took them with me. I had the best best time!!! Jeni is one of those magical people in my life that can actually outtalk me or keep up when I talk. It is so relaxing to be with someone like that. I don't have to keep self checking my talkitude level. We talked steadily til ten thirty!!!! It was wonderful...all the newsies catch up and all the kids, Heather has two beautiful 12 yr. old twins. I loved the evening. It was good to get out, something that rarely, if ever, happens.
April has a friend who has moved, with her squeeze, to Port Alberni. They are the ones that in desperation April called on Mother's Day to ask if they knew any florist in town that delivered. No, there isn't. So bless their hearts, they went right out and bought two lovely hanging baskets and brought them over to the house. Like who does that???!!! I almost cried!!!!!
She, Oly, is the most amazing girl. She is gifted! Her wood working art is unbelievable. I can't even describe it to you. Plus she has a workshop and can build anything...furniture, stairs, boxes, whatever needed thats made out of wood. And she gardens. Like seriously gardens. And there was a knock at the door the other day and who should it be but that awesome gal with a loaded box of apples, tomatoes, basil, zucchini, long beans, pea pods....unbelievable! And she grew it all. We were so excited!
I told her that we made apple butter and apparently she does too! Later that day I got a message from April that said Oly had texted her to tell me that she had brought over a huge bag of apples she had gone and picked for us for our apple butter. She could hear through my open window that I was on the phone so she just left it on the doorstep. And yup! there it was. Honestly, that is beyond thoughtful!!!!
Later Ange responded to an ad in marketplace that this fellow across town was selling pears for two bucks a pound. So we hightailed it over there and bought twelve pounds of pears, he only charged for ten. So this time we are going to make a half and half pear apple butter with chunks of candy ginger mixed through it. Yummmmmmy!!!
That's it for today folks. Enjoy the warmth out there, even in the smoke, cuz soon it will be freezing and snowy and dark outside. TTYL
'No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.' John Ruskin
THE BOX FROM OLY 
SHE COULD NOW WRITE A COOKBOOK CALLED '300 WAYS TO COOK ZUCCHINI'
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