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Well we are expecting another 6" tonight. Boo erns. That is a phrase my son uses. It actually means nothing more than serious yucky. I like it. I use it a lot.
I really wouldn't mind your long growing season Curve. Nothing RILES me up more than planting my seeds, growing then planting my little seedlings and then having a frost hit before they are mature. Boo erns!
Kathy, I Hate winter. I have absolutely no good feelings about it whatsoever! Boo erns.
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Curve, we are in the uppermost part of the state, right below Nashville. This winter we have had several days in a row of below freezing temps, and it was 5 degrees, 7 degrees, and 9 degrees at night. But today I was looking out at the back yard, which looks dead since we have zoysia grass. What surprised me was that I could still see the mowing lines (diagonal) from when my DH last mowed. It may have been just a couple of months ago, to get the leaves up!
Oh yeah, Red I hate that too....we do end up with late frosts. The weather will be so nice and warm for days, and so people plant gardens, but then *wham* another frost! I think where I live, they say to wait until April 15 to plant? Unless I am thinking of our tax-day with that date!
No Curve, I didn't get a drink last night...darn it. It was some dried mango that was calling my name (and omg that is full of sugar)!! lol
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Well, we usually don't have late frosts, but we sometimes do have a late spring, where by the time it gets warm enough for corn, tomatoes, peppers and such to grow, there's not enough time left until the cool fall weather for them to produce a crop. And I think we almost never have a summer that's both long enough and hot enough to grow melons, or sweet potatoes, or other things that need a long, warm growing season, and there are some flowers, shrubs and vines that don't grow well here for the same reason. Some years here, you will be very disappointed in your veggie garden unless you really like broccoli, spinach and snow peas! Fortunately I do, and I don't miss the melons at all.
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Hmmmmmm.....I wonder which wines would go with those vegetables? Kidding aside, I have been buying more vegetables than I normally would. This "diet" is so healthy, and I am making everything fresh, so I'm using a lot of dishes, etc! Made a quick smoothie today that had canned pumpkin (supposed to have more nutrients, etc than fresh), banana, milk, and cinnamon. Sounds weird, but it was very yummy. Since it didn't need ice for thickening, I could even make it ahead of time. OK.....night night ladies....almost 1 am here....turning in...
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Wahine, I thought for a moment you got your wires crossed you were up so late! It's so late there.
All this talk about Wahine's and Curve's garden makes me envious. I have never been much of a gardener, just don't have the patience for that. I'm lucky we have a great produce place very close. My DD has been juicing (when she's home), I'm trying to get into the habit too. I don't make a huge juice everyday but it fills me up. After drinking that and having my steel cut oatmeal, I don't feel like eating as much as I used to and it's a bit healthier. Would love to find a pumpkin smoothie, think I'll check Pinterest. I can't eat bananas (allergies) but the rest sounds good.
Sweet dreams all who are still here!
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Yes the problem we have in the great white north is a short growing season. You don't dare plant before may 24 and it needs to be harvested in early Sept. By then the sun RISES late enough and sets early enough that we only get about 8 hours of solid daylight and a definite risk of frost each night. So we've invented a bunch of tomatoes and other veggies that we call Early Bird's. I just don't know if they get that way because of GMO or hormone stimulation. I'll have to look that up.
Have a nice evening, I'm sitting on a 3 and 5 year old so I'm gonna be busy. Lol.
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Awesome Maddy....I just started eating steel cut oatmeal when I started this new eating plan. I love to either make a big amount in a crock pot or large pot, and add chopped apples, cinnamon, apple pie spice, etc. Sooooo yummy. Just put some in a bowl in the morning and heat it back up.
Deb, you are "sitting on a 3 and 5 year old"???? You are letting them breathe, right??? Jest kidding. Hope you are having fun with them!Oh boy how I would love to have the grill going and watch as my DH sears a nice, juicy, thick steak for me!!! Can't have that yet though. Back to reality....just made some delicious tomato basil soup.....yummmmm. I am learning so many new recipes, due to this eating plan. Just can't have much of it!
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Haha of course I'm not letting them breathe. What fun would that be? If you are going to sit on small children, you should always do it correctly! I'm alway trying to do the right thing.
My idea of perfection would to sit with you, eating a steak your DH cooked, and drinking a glass of wine while my DH READS to us from the grass is always greener on the other side of the septic tank. Lol
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Oh that would be so much fun, Deb. I almost dread when this week ends, as I might try to see if I can maintain without staying totally on this plan. My DD2 might drive up, and would be much easier not to have my eating so restricted while she is here. Then I can resume.
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tomato basil soup, yum! Now that would be good with bread, something I shouldn't be eating.
Red, doesn't sound comfortable sitting on one kiddo, much less two!
Tired tonight, don't have energy for longer ones
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@2TA, I guess you should go to bed now, so you'll be rested and "ready to rumble" tomorrow morning.
@wahine, maybe you could stick to your eating plan but get some extras that your DD can enjoy, along with whatever you are eating.
@RedReading—May 24?! I can remember here in 2011 the soil was too chilly to plant warm season crops until the beginning of July! That was definitely a "broccoli year" as I call it. I will remember that summer for a long time, because it was my father's last vegetable garden. He always used to grow corn, beans, peppers and tomatoes in the one spot in the back yard sunny enough for the purpose. The last few years I had come early in the spring to help him do the digging—he was over 80 after all. But in 2011, the spring was so cold and rainy that the garden hadn't been dug by the time we all went back east late in May to go to my niece's graduation. Then my dad, who had advanced colon cancer, got sick there and had to be hospitalized. By the time he was able to come back home it was the end of June, and the garden still hadn't been dug! It really did look like there would be no garden at all that year. It was awfully late to be starting anything, my dad wasn't strong enough to do any of the digging, and the weather was still uncooperative. Then I came across a book called "Square Foot Gardening", which gives a method of growing vegetables in square raised beds. I was kind of surprised, but my dad took to this idea like a duck to water even though he had been planting his veggies in rows for his entire life. I had some leftover landscape cloth at my house, so I scraped off the weeds, rolled out the landscape cloth on top to smother them, my dad made the frames, we set them on top of the cloth, filled them with bagged potting mix from the nursery, and planted. By that time it was the beginning of July. We also have those Early varieties down here, and there was one variety of corn that was just quick enough that it was possible it would produce a crop. It actually grew and made ears by the beginning of September, but unfortunately there wasn't quite enough warmth and daylight for them to grow to harvest size. By the fall, his health was really declining, and he died in December, but I can still remember my dad sitting in out in the sunshine tending his veggies in the square frames, and I'm glad he was able to have that one last garden.
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How nice hearing about all our yards. I love the fact that you found a way for your dad to have his last garden, Curve. Although so sad, you have very nice memories of him sitting outside in the sunshine and tending to his garden. My stepdad loved to garden too, and used to have such large gardens. I liked that, because they would share their bounty with me. When they moved to the house I am in now, he still kept a garden, but much smaller. He did this till in his late 80's. Now that all the trees are so big, and more have been planted, its hard to find a space that gets enough sun to have a good garden. Our neighbors have very tall (100' ?) trees too, and so they shade that part of our yard except when the sun is directly above. Its a huge yard, but I didn't want a garden right in the middle!!! I miss him so much, too. I read an obit today that talked about the man (90's) that died, and that he was such a gentleman, and it said "they don't make men like him anymore". That reminded me SO much of my late stepdad, a real southern gentleman!
Oh tomorrow is a long day, being with my DD through chemo and rads. Her mouth is already getting sores inside and it burns and makes it hard to eat, plus she lost her taste buds already. Even though it is hard seeing her go through all that, I do enjoy being with her all day.
Okay, night night girls!!!!
Kath
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I can only think of a word, dairy, but I don't have time to think of a way to get the narrative there. I need to get up & going as I have an onc. appointment in an hour and a half and still need to dress & eat breakfast. This is just an intermediate checkup. I won't have a scan to see the results of my current chemo until the end of next month or thereabouts. I was thinking of getting some kind of testing done to try to have a better idea of what tx might work for me. I would have to pay for it out of pocket, but I just got a notice from breastcancertrials.org that there are two new clinical trials which will be studying whether this testing really has any validity. Group Health is not actually a participant, but one of the sites is in Spokane, which is across state from here. If not too many visits are required, it might be feasible for me to participate, if I can get the new biopsy required by the study done at Group Health. I'd probably have to pay out of pocket for that, but I have some funds I can tap for that purpose—a special health account that I got from all my unused sick leave when I retired. I think it would be worth using some of that money to get the testing and also maybe contribute to finding some other basis for treatment choices than the current "try it and see if it works" method. There has got to be a better way, and if there isn't yet, those researchers need to keep looking until they find one!
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It was hairy there for a minute but the PET came back stable. Woot.
For those who remember Fred Meyer, how about Burgerville? (c:
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Plants in the great white north are pretty HARDY and will withstand a lot. I would love to have a large garden but my DH isn't into it, so I started a gardening club at work. I convinced them that they should provide the garden beds 8x4' and the soil. What we do from there is up to us. I usually grow tomatoes as I do down chili sauces, spaghetti sauce and salsa come fall. Of course we have one of the best farmers markets in the province, so I could actually buy the tomatoes cheaper than I can grow them, but I like getting my hands in the dirt. I took 2 plots last year and it was fun.
Adey so happy your PET came back stable. Yay you - you deserve to celebrate. I was in your pocket all day, trying really hard to be very quite.
Curve, what the heck, if conventional treatment isn't doing the job, why not a trial. I always worry that I'd get the placebo and be one of the control group though. On the other hand I think if you really believe in the treatment, it will help you because the mind is a wondrous thing. Sorry your dad is gone now, but I'm happy you have such happy memories if him.
CC, where have you been? I've been worrying about you. And that little post didn't tell us much. Except you like gardening. Me too, I'm just not really good at it. Happy belated St Bridget's day!
Maddy, what is juicing and what the heck is steel cut oatmeal. In my world juicing (other than athletes taking illegal drugs) would be blenderizing food till it is nothing but pap, then pouring it into a glass and drinking it. Ewwwww. Yuck!! I think if I'm going to have food, I want texture and taste and all the good stuff that goes with it. I have never hear of this steel cut oatmeal, except on BCO. What the heck is it and why do people make big pots of it that they eat over several days. To me there is little worse than cold porridge. It could stare at me from the fridge until it became a science experiment complete with green fuzzy things and black mold on it.
OK so what are these things really?
Kathy, glad you have happy memories of your step dad and that you recall him as a true southern gentleman. That is such a compliment to him. Still praying for your DD. (((hugs)))
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Red, you are so funny! I had NEVER had steel cut oatmeal till 3 1/2 wks ago and I love it. It is the entire oat, and is cut by steel into little pieces, looks almost like small gravel to me. Anyway, when I cook up a huge pot full and add apples, cinnamon, etc., it tastes more like a dessert. It is lovely, and having it ready-made in the fridge means I just have to microwave it for a minute or so. Yummmmmm. Supposed to be quite healthy too. I am going to make almond flour and oat flour tonight for a special lo cal dessert. It says to just put the oats in the blender till very fine, same with the almonds.
Love all this gardening talk! My DH had a good area for a raised garden....for just 3-4 seasons, then the trees grew taller and it was in the shade. Like you, Red, he likes to grow a few things, even though it IS cheaper to buy from a farmer!
Hi CC, good to see you again!
Hi Adey, YAY for good Pet Scan results!!!! Whoop, Whoop!
I am not addressing all the comments and all you girls, just got home a little while ago and am beat. It was a very hard, emotional day, and my DD1 has so much to deal with right now. I am glad I can spend the entire day with her though, we enjoy being together even though she is going through crap. Turns out the horrid sore, raw area down the side of her tongue MIGHT have been avoided if they had put some wax on her filling. The rads came through her mouth to the opposite side and hit the filling, then bounced onto her tongue. Its awful, and she can hardly even drink the ensure stuff. Lost 7 lbs from last week. Got lots more scripts today that might help. Plus she has had so many surgeries in that area the past few months, that it has not had a chance to really heal.
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Oh SHOOT, I just noticed I changed TWO letters to make my word. Darn it. OK girls, someone go on from Red's word, HARDY, ok? My mind is mush right now.
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Why in God's name did I use Hardy. To heck with it, I'm going from wahine's word SHADE. My DH is very patient most of the time bit sometimes he HATES to see me on the BCO website. He feels I'm sharing with you girls and not with him. And of course he's right but he can't possibly get it can he? When I had my meltdown 2 nights ago, he didn't even know. He was watching TV while I was reaching out to you girls. And you were there for me. Thanks.
Gotta go. Ttyl (((hugs)))
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Awwwww....so glad you DID reach out to all of us, Deb. Yeah, guys don't always get it, nor do those that have not had the RB. Now, if he were smart he would find something awesome that tears you away from the computer!!! Like Justin Timberlakes song "I'm Bringing Sexy Back"....*wink, wink*.....lol.
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Lol Kat. That RATES right up there with illicit Sex in a car in the back of a sales lot. Lol
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@wahine, sorry to hear about the tough time your DD is having, especially when it could have been prevented. You'd think there would be a checklist or something to remind the nurses/rad techs to do things like covering people's fillings so they don't suffer with preventable side effects. Whatever ever happened to "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"? I don't know if I mentioned them before, but I found a supplemental shake called Kompleat. I needed to gain weight (and after last month I need to gain the same weight all over again) and just wasn't taking in enough calories with my meals to maintain. Since I'm ER+ I wanted to find one that doesn't contain soy protein isolate, which is the protein source for Ensure and IIRC most other drinks you can get in grocery stores. I went to a vitamin/supplement store and found two that had other protein sources. One is called Orgain and Kompleat is the other. Kompleat is more expensive, but I like the taste a lot better. Then they went out of stock at the local vitamin store. I waited and waited but they didn't get any from the warehouse, so I ordered a case of them online. The online supplier said the Kompleat was on backorder so last Sunday I finally knuckled under and bought some of the Orgain from the local vitamin store. Then I got an email that my Kompleat has shipped. It's a good thing too—I need to get some meat back on my bones.
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There were so many people getting treatments in the chemo room, that all the nice recliners were needed for them. Luckily the nurses brought seats for those of us that were with someone there. Thanks for the info Curve, and I am SO glad you were able to order more of your favorite. My DD1 is very picky about texture now, even though her taste has gone, so I think we will need to try several different types. But she only got half of one down today, and they want her to use 3, and work up to 5 a day. Even hard to put that much in her feeding tube, as her tummy has been upset. I made a dessert (lo cal) tonight, that took forever to make...and I had to get almonds to pulverize, and made that "oat flour" too. I loved the filling, but really didn't like the crust, which is what took the longest to make! Luckily my DH thought it ALL was good....more for him!
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@wahine, I hope you can find a drink that will be palatable for your DD. Does she get antinausea meds? If so, it sounds like they aren't working well enough and perhaps a different medication or change of dose is in order.
It's a good thing that your DH liked that dessert. It would have been a pity if it had gone to waste after you went to so much effort to make it.
PS if you ever want to make it again, you may be able to buy the almonds already pulverized and save yourself a few steps. Look for Almond Flour, it's the same thing. If your grocery store has a special section for gluten-free or low-carb foods, it might be there, or it might be on the same aisle with other kinds of flour. The brand I see out here is Bob's Red Mill—they sell all sorts of specialty flours.
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www.delightwater.com is supposed to be palatable for those on chemo. I have never tried it. Just thought I'd throw it out there. Maybe it will be to you daughters taste!
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I imagine you will try a number of things before you find something that SATES both her appetite and thirst. But it will be worth it once she does find it. Still praying hard for her Kat.
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ugh, I can think of a word, but when I try to think of how to get there from where RedReading left off, I have a brain fade. The word is paste.
@wahine, what sort of textures does your DD like? Maybe we can think of some foods that would appeal to her.
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Hi girls, thanks for all the advice! Curve, I only had a chance to go into Publix, and they didn't have the almond flour or the oat flour. BUT I didn't like the way the crust turned out, and the gal that gave me the recipe told me (after I asked today) that she doesn't pulverize it to a flour, just does it till its like graham cracker crumbs. So, I will try again!
Haven't heard of delightwater.com, but that sounds interesting, Adey. Maybe if I stare hard enough at a bottle of Ensure or something, it will magically go down her throat! Ha, I wish!
I am really hoping my younger DD can come for a visit, as long as the roads will be good. She would arrive tomorrow night....and it will make DD1 so happy to see her! I guess I should clean house, ya think? Having the dogs inside so much lately has made that quite a chore. Love them, but omg the stuff that sticks to their fur and paws and comes in with them!!!
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OOPS, I was writing while you were writing too, Curve, but you hit "enter" before I did!!! SO now we will work from *paste* instead of *stare*. OK, let me think.....
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OK, got it...maybe I could tease her into drinking more nutrients than she thinks she is getting!!!
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