A new niece! A new Grandblessing!! (grandson)

Our family has a new member...as a matter of fact,,,Two new members

Katy was born to my baby sister  on New years day.  Orion was born to my daughter on February 8!! I am so blessed!

I have been working on a quilt all month for Orion. An Adaptation of this shooting star wall hanging. I needed to adapt it to be baby quilt sized. My squares were all 2,5 inches square and the whole quilt top is finished now. 6 more feet of binding to sew on by hand and I will be ready to take it with me this Thursday when I go to see my brand new grandson.....Orion...A shooting star to go with my little constellation who just fell to earth.
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ICE CUBES!!!!

We graduated to a new freezer. No longer will our fridge freezer, 5 cubic foot freezer and second freezer be stuffed with no room. We bought an upright. I bought plastic tubs to fit the shelves so I can load the meat into them and keep the freezer organized.

keepin on

I have a new keto blood meter.I am also testing for blood sugar readings. AND I am giving up all dairy.

I am gradually feeling better. I continue to lose weight...very slowly. And I keep researching.

Craving pancakes...something sweet?

What do you do when you feel like you NEED something sweet. Like pancakes and sausage. with butter and real maple syrup?   So far I settled for half an avocado. Hope that does the trick. SO far I have found that cravings are caused by the need for more fat. Cold and creamy.

I can FEEL my stomach muscles!!!

that is all...thank you

Ketosis!!! Bullet Proof coffee works!

 I woke up today at 6 am.  The test strip showed I was in Ketosis...YAY!  That does not happen too often. It made me happy to see. I often  wonder if I am. It is happening so slow that I do not see a scale weight change for days.

  I drank some bullet proof coffee this morning and then set myself up outside to scrape and paint windows.I don't need to place pretend spider webs on my house for Halloween, My house is covered with them already.  I cleaned a zillion spider webs, spiders and eggs off of the windows before I could scrape them. I was covered with spider webs. All day I swatted my head and neck. I was sure they were crawling all over me.  I worked at it all day. At 3:30 pm my husband pulled into the driveway. I realized that I did not eat all day long. I did drink a little water. Bullet proof coffee is the bomb.  I scraped and painted and washed the windows. Next I painted the garage door and trim. I painted the back door to the garage and the trim around it. Now both doors are dark  Brick red. The same color as the shutters. I love the way they turned out..

Amazing day. I got a lot accomplished.

When I was painting the outside of the windows I noticed that the wood on the inside windows in the triple track has peeling varnish. So I need to urethane them all. That means taking the triple track windows all out to get to them... Gonna be a long day tomorrow. I need to take them all out from the inside and leave the windows slightly open, then go outside to urethane the wood.  While they are all out, I can wash the rest of the windows and clean the dead bugs out of the window sills. ( I really do not want to do it) Triple tracks are not air tight . I even find small tree frogs, (dead and dried up) between the windows sometimes. creepy.creepy creepy. When it is done, I will be glad I did it.

I ate grilled sirloin and broccoli for dinner and later had half a can of macadamia nuts.

Went to a women's bible study on the book of Romans ..Good study...

That's about it. I did not work out today...I th ink my painting WAS a workout.

SUP on Stone Lake today

After a morning of mowing, trimming more hedges and edging the driveway and parking area. I dumped 10 contractor wheel barrow's of trimmings.
It took  me an hour to paddle 2 miles. One way was against the wind.  The going was hard. The wind was chilly but I was sweating. Some fishermen were in hooded sweatshirts with jackets over them. They called out to me and wanted to know how I could be out in a tee shirt in the cold wind. I told them I had worked up a sweat. I was too hot to leave my life jacket on and had it at my feet.

Right now I am aching...My head is stuffed up. I believe I have a virus.  Ugg...How do you deal with a cold Paleo style?