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Hi all!

This post is about nothing important so if you are feeling low on energy, save yourself and don't read it.

Micmel happy to hear Gabby is done with chemo and now onto the next stage, well, soon. Praying much healing and energy for her, and you!

Mara reading about you doing laundry brings to mind a fairly recent chore change for me. Since most of the laundry I do is Hub's and all of his clothing is dark and terribly dirty, I go a LONG time waiting to get a big enough load of lights to make it worth washing. While I wait, one by one, I run out of gonchies. I can have 20 pairs of panties in the laundry, two tea towels and a pillowcase and that is still not enough even for a small load in the washer. But there I am - gonchless.

So now when I have a bath (not a showerer) I toss my gonch that I took off into the tub with me and scrub by hand. Rinse and hang them to dry. By next day they're dry and I have an endless supply of clean underwear! I do not wash tea towels or pillowcases this way. But for panties it has been life changing. I never run out! I could literally survive a year on 4 panties. I know some people might wrinkle their nose at this but I also used to use, make and sell re-usable, washable period pads so handwashing underwear is not even something I think twice about. What did our Great Grandmothers do? They got their hands in the water and washed stuff ! I feel quite earthy as I lather my lacies. (they're not lacey, they're boring cotton)

Does anyone ferment? No, this has nothing to do with poorly washed underwear, although it could. I mean, anyone make fermented food?

Hub has been going through bad stomach acid - bad - and now has difficulty swallowing. Had a throat scope, biopsies taken, no bad things found, but extensive damage from unrelenting acid associated with his HIGH intake of pain meds. His ankles are bone on bone destructed and walking is endless agony. He takes meds to function. But they are eating his guts. So internet diving tells me that fermented food is the holy grail of gut rehabilitation. Okay… I'll bite.

I will dip my toe into fermented water by trying to ferment sliced apples. Follow instructions. Add cinnamon stick and whole cloves. The smell was divine! Let them fester away on the counter for a few days and opened at the appointed time. The enticing aroma had our mouths watering with spicy apple pie anticipation. No! No! That is not what happened! Oh, the horror, the disappointment, the spitting out of mushy, salty, VILE apple! How can people eat this ?! This is revolting! The salt sent my already high BP right into the atmosphere. I didn't feed it to the chickens or throw it in the bush where some hapless wild animal could OD on sodium. Into the garbage with that failure. Consulted FB group where many said, yeah, fermented fruit, big disappointment. Now I'm trying fermented carrots with garlic. After appointed fester time will make Daughter try them, because we're not going to do that again! If anyone has fermented food wisdom, I'm all ears!

Love, hugs and good sleep to all.

@mara51506 Happy that your appointment went well and that you have a good appetite. Fifty years ago I styled and sold wigs in a department store. It has been too long for me to know current products, but I will manage.

@cookie54 Currently I am crocheting a seat cover for my DH's office here at home. He feels the cold more and the leather chair is too cold for him. Then I am unsure what I will make. I am torn between using up my leftover stash or making something totally new. I have lots of blankets already. I have no energy to do much of anything right now.

@cookie54 I feel better than yesterday, just want to avoid the super thick productive cough, none of that yet. Herceptin gives me a stuffy nose too but still got plenty of Mucinex. I like the time release pill vs cough syrup.

I slept OK last night, may be part of feeling better today no doubt. I do not have to leave until about 150pm. I set the pick up time at 630pm. I would be getting a loading dose of Herceptin since it has been months since I had it last. They may also transition appointments to the afternoon, it was an offer made and of course I accepted.

Done first part of a wash, not doing three cycles unless cloths and my clothes require deep cleaning. The Lysol laundry stuff can handle stuff that is heavy duty cleaning of more soiled stuff, not the regular stuff used for wiping up dust etc.

I bought myself another automatic can opener, this one is a usb charge power which I like better. It was because I have a hard time with the manual Starfrit one, nice to stick on the wall with magnetic holder.

Will be having crunchy beans, little bit of lentils and rice. Possibly stick a hotdog in the air fryer as well. Rice will be made on the stove of course, small amount, while that happens will use air fryer multi times do up the crunchy beans first, Need a small amount of shredded cheese as well. Since things will be happening all at the same time, will likely need to be warmed in microwave. I will see. Option 2 with preparation, empty each ingredient into a bowl while heating up others. Then put the temp on the air fryer to around 80 C to keep all of it warm together without more cooking, should be able to warm the cheese and add queso and sour cream.

EDIT SUPER DELICIOUS. That description deserved caps. I did not separate stuff quite the way I described, still made rice first while doing 2 dogs in the air fryer and making them crispy, second thing added lentils and beans, just a spoonful of each, heated both hotdogs and the lentils and beans, about 5 mins at 392 F, max temp, stirred them around. Once that was done, added shredded cheese, tostitos queso and garlic and parm mayo, put back in the air fryer, only to melt cheese, once cheese melted, stirred everything and unplugged fryer but left it all in the basket part. Unplug to avoid additional cooking and who wee it was wonderful. Due to the fat content, took 2 immodiums and taking one more, since I will be at the cancer clinic a LONG time for the loading dose of Herceptin. Cannot really get out of bed. Reading it said a 90 min drip, 1 hour wait time post drip as well. Crazy.

Anyway, hoping all have a good day in pockets for all as well. Least it is not raining still. Wish we could have a couple sunny days to dry up all the snow and rain.