A day like no other

 Today three years ago I lost my best friend. An oversized chocolate Labrador named Zazu. 

Today I found out my son won’t be joining us for Christmas out of fear to spread the dreaded Omnicron

Today my heart aches

Today my consolation is a warm chocolate chip cookie. 

Tsk tsk why turn to food? 

Comfort does not exist in weight gain 

Comfort does not come in the shape of a warm cookie

Happy Halloween

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The Power of Intentions

THE POWER OF INTENTION

EVANGELINE 

Dreaming of the day when she will have a dog!

 

One Day ZaZu climbs into the Volkswagon Bug to keep Eva happy!  

She so longs for a dog, every day she asks "Can I get a dog today?"  

Each day her Dad says no! 

 Eva loves ZaZu and helps take care of him whenever she's here with us. She feeds him dinner or breakfast, she turns the tub water on (the only way he'll drink) I'm sure she goes to bed dreaming of the day she will have her own dog.

Evangeline and I are alot alike when it comes to animal she definitely has the intuitive power of knowing that animals bring you unconditional love.

When you want a hug ~ You get one

When you want a kiss ~ dog doesn't say no, dog says SLURP!

When you wanna cry, dog snuggles and nuzzles you 

Yes Dog knows what you want and what you need.. when your family is to busy to get what you need, your dog knows!  

Okay when I was Eva's age I dreamed of the day I'd have a dog, they told me no no no over and over but I never gave in, I kept asking and asking. Until one day I got my dog...he never left my side he was totally mine! 

Skimo!  YOU were the BEST!

Now my intentions have changed, I have three dogs..and three cats, a chinchilla, a rabbit, and some fish 

Today 

 

 I want my PONY

Look it's so damn cute and smaller than ZaZu! 

 

 

 

Goddess Help Continued

This time the conversation goes like this as we, Eva and I are in the car heading toward the intersection at heavy traffic hour.
Me "Goddess please bless us with a quick and timely opening onto the intersection" as we arrive a gentleman on our left stops to let us out of the street and no traffic is coming in the opposite direction. I quickly pull out and say "Thank you Goddess" we drive down the road towards our destination then I hear Eva say "Bah Bah, did you hear the Goddess?"  "No" was my reply. "Bah Bah" she says again "the Goddess said Your Welcome."  Then she proceeds to tell me sometimes she can hear the voices, and well sometimes she can't, and she seems a little disappointed about not hearing them.   I am happy to have the open opportunity to share my pagan faith with my Granddaughter and that my daughter is open enough to allow it.   Goddess Thank You! 

and yes I heard your reply!!

Blessed Be all the listening ears
May you walk in Peace Always

Earth Song

The Conversation goes like this......... 

Myself "Oh Blessed Goddess Please open the traffic in a timely manner so we can safely cross the road"  (as we are entering an intersection)

My granddaughter Eva "Bah Bah who is the Goddess?"  

Myself "She lives in the Moon"   

Eva "Oh I know her!"  

She then asks me, "Who put her there?"  

I am befuddled and answer "I guess Mother Earth"... 

Her  answer to that is "Oh Bah Bah, you are so Silly!"  

she shakes her head and says "Mother Earth... Mother Earth?"

" Yes I tell her the Earth is our Mother and we are her Children."

 I proceed to sing the words.  Again she tells me I am silly.  I guess that's a good thing coming from a four year old.

Blessed Be and Thank you Goddess for All that you Do for Me! 

Credit for ARTWORK 

Rita Lloyd www.nuturingart.com 

please see her stunning work! 

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire,
but gradually our desire changes.  The situation that we hoped
to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant.
We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were
absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us around it, led
us past it, and then if we turn around to gaze at the remote past,
we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.

Marcel Proust

 

Today is an Amber Day.... why not try this!

Toffee Coffee Panna Cotta
Serves 2 to 4
Irish moss version
2 tablespoons irish moss paste
1 cup soaked cashews
1⁄2 cup coconut meat
1⁄4 cup agave
Pinch salt
11⁄2 teaspoons lemon juice
3 drops coffee extract
2 drops hazelnut extract
1 tablespoon mesquite powder
1 to 2 tablespoons water as needed

 Blend all ingredients in a high-speed blender until smooth. O Use a metal ring or cookie cutter to form into individual panna cotta.

OR....

Psyllium version
4 teaspoons psyllium husks
1 cup soaked cashews
1⁄2 cup coconut meat
1⁄4 cup agave
Pinch salt
11⁄2 teaspoons lemon juice
3 drops coffee extract
2 drops hazelnut extract
1 tablespoon mesquite powder
1⁄4 cup water as needed
O Blend all ingredients in a high-speed blender until smooth. O Use a metal ring or cookie cutter to form into individual panna cotta.

These are Russell James Raw Food Recipes

 

Today's Quote

“You can't stop the future
You can't rewind the past
The only way to learn the secret
...is to press play.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

 

There are very few constants in life

Be ready for change

You know it's coming

and when it does

Be Open

Accept the Challenge

and 

Allow the change to Wash over You!

Okay.. I'm Ready

WoW it's been like Centuries (or that's how it feels) since I have posted here..

Here are some Garden shots
beginning with
Early MAY

Mid  JUNE

 Mid JULY

This is my latest completed knitting project!

AND ME!  

Manifestation

Manifesting

 

Peace for the World

Joy for All

Love

During and After Irene!

 One of the first things that happened during the morning was our neighbors Locust Tree cracked off at the top... we were taking the dog out and we heard a strange sound like plastic rolling across pavement, turns out it was the tree cracking!

 Next.. out the kitchen window I notice my beautiful double blossom Rose of Sharon is prone to the ground.. WAH..

 the RAIN starts

 Bored I work on and complete a ribbon scarf I had started!

 A large maple branch has broken .. it's hanging in this photo to the left of our little stage!

 Between the two climbing toys is a new oak, its top was bent in the winter by a large tree nearby, the oak is trying to retain its stamina.. when IRENE turns it around and now it's growing in a different direction!

 The Next Morning we venture out for a walk.. this is looking south on Hope St.

 Dinner the first night.. NO POWER..

 The Second day no power I decide to teach myself a new stitch!  YEAH it's exaggerated but it worked!

 some of the debris in front

 Dinner the second night! No Power again

 The second day it's safer to drive..this is the entrance to our local state park, the trees are broken everywhere!

 My camera card is full these are the last two photos i could fit, and with no power I couldn't recharge! These are two gorgeous sailboats brushed up onto the shore wall.. they are laying on their sides.

And Finally debris on the road that washed up and over this sea wall!  Well it was interesting but I'd rather not do it all again

SO KATIA.. GO AWAY!

BEFORE Irene

I Love my Trees.....    I know they are subject to some really harsh winds for a long time (up to 18 hours they are saying)   
So to honor them I have taken their pictures.. here they all are BEFORE Irene!

I noticed they have a purple glow... very interesting... 

 WAY back there are the OAKS

 Sure tomorrow this grass will be LEAVE covered  that fence is 6 feet.. so those OAKS are HUGE

 The River Birch and Maple

 Looking into the garden.. the leaf less dwarf flowering crab-apple that was infested with Winter Moth last fall 

 This rain barrel was EMPTY this morning!

The Koi

Lastly the Garden.. BEFORE IRENE

I'll post more of these area AFTER IRENE passes..

Summer Fun

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The Challenges have Ended

So For the last Month or so I accepted a challenge (Thanks Deanna) and challenged myself

To No Flour

and To No Processed Foods

Overall in the 5 weeks 

I lost 8.5 lbs

Feel Better 

and 

I Have learned a lot of things about myself

1- I do have self control

2- If I wait long enough this to shall pass

3- Being miserable helps no one

4- Walking is one of the BEST changes I ever made in my life

5- Learning to "Give it up!" to whatever higher powers will listen to me HELPS

I am nearly finished with a book

What's Gotten into Us?: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World

by Mckay Jenkins

This book is a HUGE EYE OPENER to all aspects of our lives

IF YOU CARE about your life, your family and or your planet

I DARE YOU TO READ THIS BOOK!

 Let's get back to basics

Think about using mason jars to store your foods instead of the endless leaching of plastics with or without BPA  (reality, BPA is only one of hundreds of thousands of leaching plastic chemicals )

USE foil instead of plastic wrap

USE baking soda and vinegar instead of Caustic Chemicals (um, which are all the ones in the grocery store aisle)

USE more fruits and vegetable raw in your daily meals

TAKE OFF  your shoes before entering your home

I really hate living a doomsday life

and I do feel I have some chance to make a differenence

for myself, my children, my grand-daughters and their children!

Anyone got a new challenge for me?

 

5 Day No Processed Food Challenge! Day two

SO .. How did DAY 2 Go anyway?

As you can see it was a pensive day

 

Green Juice for breakfast

Never ending Oatmeal bowl with craisins, chopped raw almonds and pecans

 

THEN

 My husband and I did some volunteer work from 2-5:30 and on the way home stopped at the Green Grocer, a nice local healthy store for all your healthier needs.. 

I wanted some fresh produce to munch on, but there wasn't really anything that caught my eye.

We were both so hungry

We had taken our water bottles it was hot and humid and we were tired

YOU KNOW WHERE THAT LEADS YOU

TO

DESPAIR

So at my suggestion.. and believe me my husband doesn't need any more than a suggestion

I called PIZZA CALDO and ordered TWO fish and chips

but the best part .. 

WE sat in the local State Park and ate by the water side

The storm clouds in Connecticut were AMAZING..   

It looked as though there were a huge funnel cloud .. the sun was hidden by these amazing clouds all over, and then the sky broke the sun came pouring out and just made life BREATHTAKING

you've got to love those moments

   For those of you following me

The first picture I am in Cranston RI about five years old.. 

The second picture I am in Bad Kissingen Germany pulling my brother I am almost 13

and this last picture I am in my bedroom in my sleigh bed my grandfather made for me with my cousin Patricia who by the way tortured me throughout my childhood!

That little red thing was a phonograph that had a mirror in the center, and pictures on the records so it made cute little images on the mirror as the records played.

GRAND MEMORIES

precious

So I do not think I veered to much off the non processed.. cept maybe the evil batter on the fish