Health & Sunshine Enjoyment
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| California Poppy Seedlings 2024 |
After my previous post, I've decided to lean towards health and fitness information and entertainment. What do I see the first I click on Health?
Information about women and heart attacks.
Thank you, just what I need to cheer me up, another caution about what could shorten my life. If I keel over this week from a heart attack, the headline can read:
Blogger nearly predicts demise, Watch for the Signs
Seriously, know the signs of a heart attack is important because it can save your life. Please don't wait and see. Call, report your symptoms and let the professional decide the next step. If you aren't satisfied with the information, then get a 2nd opinion. 911 may be your solution.
Right off, I, once again, decide to put effort into being outdoors more to enjoy the sunshine and fresh air. I use sunscreen as well as an umbrella as a parasol. Speaking of which, this year I need to find a new umbrella for walking as what I have are old or too dark.
For my health, aside from a good diet, enough sleep, exercise is crucial to being healthy, mind and body. So far, I've lost 3 pounds. Keeping it off means telling the lemon sandwich cookies...No!
Creating my own trail mix can take care of cravings for sweets. Mixing up a flavored water will also help in that regard. Adding more veggies and being creative with salads is also a goal.
What is your favorite exercise for sunshine? For rainy days? Do you mix your own trail mix? Flavored water?
Reel, Shorts,Videos & Self Image
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| Altocumulus Clouds (Ac) 2000-7000 m (7000=23000 Feet) 1 April 2024, Vermont |
I'm so homely! vs self image
One of the main reasons I watch Facebook Reels, and Youtube shorts and videos is to see fun grass roots image creator folks with a wider perspective than what's in the news. In other words, to cheer me up.
As it happens, I notice that I'm not feeling cheered up. I've started to quickly scroll past dancing, in your face close up beautiful people, fitness, folks preaching they aren't old, and look at-me-ladies guys with tattoos (now that's just sad). After a while, it got to me that I will never be that young again. I didn't expect to think that way.
Would an Over 60 website help? Yes. I say over 60 because being in your fifties, you are still young. I believe, the slide picks up momentum when you hit 60 years, no matter how fit or young you look.
The closer you are to the end of your life, the heavier that vibe becomes. Being fit can hold you up better.
All those, younger by far, attractive people are denting my self image. I caution folks, especially the elderly, who watch a lot of reels, shorts and videos created by real people, try not to allow feeling inferior get a hold of your self image. Think...Everyone is beautiful...You included.
Instead of being dissatisfied with your appearance, feel inspired to become fit, lose weight, eat well, enjoy life out and about walking, talking with friends, engaging in an activity like bird watching or photography.
What pulls you down, creates a path you can use to find your way upward.
Reflection Monday April 2024
I've thought for weeks this one has to be something profound, deep thinking, pulled from the depths of Earth's health, all the spheres. Whatever it is that I'm hoping to find, is not revealing itself. I want to vent about something. I want to post something that will make a difference. I think, ponder, mull, think, contemplate, search again and again over the weeks.
Ah...
What does the World need?
You.
Poetry Thursday
There is no fantasy
more true
than how we,
in our element,
in this era,
on these days,
are living with
fiction ingredients
folded into reality.
M.Flannery
2024
Snow On the Ground Sunday
There is more than half a foot of snow in the yard today from yesterday's snow storm. The sun is very bright this morning. Sun + Snow = Wear Sunglasses
Going outdoors, I feel like I should be on a mountain top wthe skis while sipping a hot chocolate. Looking up, the sun is reflecting off my sunglasses. I don't ski, but a bird seems to have tried out the small slope near my deck.
The snowfall was steady, not the kind you sit to watch when daydreaming. It was out there. I was in here. We were good. Sadly, I wanted a warm milk with a glug or two of Kahlua. Woe was me, I didn't stop to buy milk on Friday morning. What liquid dairy was left, went into my coffee. Priorities.
Day 82 of Week 12 in March 2024
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| March 2024 Crocus in Snow |
The snow storm forecast to begin tonight has gone from a watch to a Winter Storm Warning here in Vermont.
A small patio table with a trash bag pulled over it will protect the crocus. The bulbs blooming in the open area will be all right as they aren't tall enough to break under the pressure of snow.
The colder temperatures for me are not a bother. I'm not ready to go out in sandals and no jacket. At a weight plateau, (scale doesn't change no matter what), there is time to lose a few pounds before the transition from spring jacket to sweater weather begins.
Flower sprouts. This season, once again, despite plenty of sunlight, the sprouts are trying to get leggy. I wave my hand over them to help the stems grow strong. The California Poppy are having issues, wanting to keel over between watering. The bachelor's buttons are doing well as are the nasturtium. Today I will sow the next set of seeds for cosmos, love-in-a-mist (nigella), and basil. The look this year I'm going for is a cotton sundress cottage vibe.
Feedspot. If you want to promote your blog, then Feedspot.com is a good resource. I receive their emails with the recent news about the blogs I like as well as a snippet of this blog. I don't have stats to tell you if this blog's traffic has improved through the website. I do know it is an easy and informative website to use.
The sun is shinning as I type. Time for me to do errands, putter and be creative.
Have a Wonderful Weekend
Drive Safely
Bake biscuits
Shop for local honey
Read about bar shampoo
Browse summer shorts online
Sketch your ideal garden
Sing to your stove
Have Coffee Ice cream
with a splash of Kahlua
Cloud Formations
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| (Cc flo) Cirrocumulus floccus with (Ci) Cirrus above High level 6000 m (above 20,000 feet)  |
There is a winter storm watch in this Vermont, New England area for Friday night into Saturday night with as much as 7 inches of possible snow, and difficult travel expected. Winter is going out with a bang or Spring arriving with a take that to winter?
Doesn't matter. It is going to snow.
Hello Spring
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| Crocus in March |
In comparison to the world 15 days ago when I posted this blog's pause, the news media appears to be happy to be held hostage by outrageous statements from you know who. Violence continues as any good news crouches under the weight of politics and war.
My blog pause isn't because of blogging burn out. The world around me has a glacier weight that is building with each headline I read about you know who. It is impossible to get away from that sheer stupidity that he gets that much attention instead of being behind bars.
I am not a weak person. Severe emotional pain I have endured countless times. I live with depression, PTSD, and anxiety. The depth of the anguish the GOP is creating via supporting you know who, the Mariana Trench pales in comparison.
A very sad part of my misery is the belief I am not the only American who is being negatively impacted by what is going on in American politics.
Pray for Common Sense
Pray for a good presidential candidate to emerge
Pray for America
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Regular posting is still on pause
Day 76 of Week 11 March 2024
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| Bachelor Button Sprouts* |
Internet wise, if you pause your blog, then your rating on searches and such decreases. Posting a photograph with comments turned off is a way of not losing your blog's Internet ranking. I'm not sure how or what search engine rules are concerning ranking though.
Posting will might resume in April 2024.
*Using organic potting soil in jiffy planters, seeds sprouted in 4 days.
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