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Come to see that I actually have a few new readers. This is nice to see. Thank you for following and I hope you will stay around for a season or two. I was given this award from Herrad yesterday.  Since she is such a great inspiration to me, I am a little chagrined, but I accept this with gratitude and much humility. Thanks Herrad! It was a bit cooler and spitting today, and I don't think I ever warmed up. Last night I crocheted a medium weight hat for the craft bazaar that takes place after Thanksgiving. It was the quickest hat to date. Just a little beanie/cloche with a brim in light blue. Do kids wear hats these days? On their way to school, or when outside playing? Or are they just interested in items that come with a label? I don't know. I guess if they don't sell, we can give them to a clothing bank. I mean, they are not the most stylish hats, but they are cute and functional. And they're made with love! I'm having cravings. I want some of tho...

Hi all. Lately I've been wondering if I was ever going to break the 39 mark. No, not my age. I broke that mark a looonngg time ago. But I have had 39 followers for what seems like ever. So you can imagine my surprise when I noticed today that I have 40. Welcome Laura! So far as I know, you don't have a blog of your own, or I would link you. But know that I won't take up much of your time because I'm typically not the daily writer. Actually that may be why my numbers remain so low; I don't know. In any case, I hope you stay and enjoy what you read. Today was a lovely Fall day with temperatures in the mid-70's. I had made plans with DH (dear husband) to go for a stroll around the Nature Center at Snake Lake. We last went there a year ago on a warm late Summer day. And unfortunately we read the map wrong and ended up on a narrow and rooted less than accessible patch of trail where DH has to muscle me in my chair over some pretty thick tree roots on a narrow pat...

Sugar is sugar. That is what they are saying on television, so it must be true. "Corn sugar or cane sugar? It's the same thing because sugar is sugar." Corn sugar is the new name for high fructose corn syrup. Well uh, not really. High fructose corn syrup is actually a highly refined clear liquid derived from corn starch, which is definitely NOT sugar. Today, food companies use HFCS (a mixture of fructose and glucose) because it’s inexpensive, easy to transport and keeps foods moist. And because HFCS is so sweet, it’s cost effective for companies to use small quantities of it in place of other more expensive sweeteners or flavorings.  So now that the word is out about HFCS they ( the corn farmers ) (Heinz) are "re-branding" it. Since the general public is, in a word, stoopid, no doubt their campaign will work. And we will continue in our quest to be the fattest nation with the highest and youngest number of people with diabetes. That's a sweet thought. ...

After going through a period of plenty of missed shots, I have decided to just stop taking Copaxone altogether. I actually was going to finish what I have left, which is five syringes in the fridge in the house, and I'm not sure whether there's a box outside in the fridge in the garage or not, but I guess it doesn't matter. I gave myself my last shot three weeks ago. I know. Am I going to pay for this with relapses? Your guess is as good as mine. My intuition is telling me no. I believe I am fully segued into secondary progressive MS and am no longer having relapses, per se. Any time I have been down for the count in the past two years I could attribute to either too much heat or an infection. Unlike many people, I have never had bad injection site reactions. Other than the stinging for about twenty minutes post-injection, I've not had problems with the shots. Still, my gut tells me it's time to quit. So I did. If there are shots in the garage, they can wa...

I just realized today that it was September. With that realization comes the thought that there's something I need to do.  Something I need to do, in September . I have been waiting until this month to do it, and now that September is here I can't think of what IT is! It's not my meeting, because I remember that. I remember that I have a meeting and I have to make and bring a salad, and my baby picture, and I hope nothing else. (perhaps I should check). So, what could it be? It's not my doctor appointment, because I remember that I have an appointment to see my neuro on the 20th. I need to check to make sure that a new referral from my PCP was made, and fill out a new intake form, but it's not that. I remember all that. So what is it that I've forgotten? I think it is my cell phone! I need to add more minutes to my pay as you go Tracfone! Guess what! They expired on the seventh. That was four days ago. I went to renew them online, and...

Hi there everyone (all seven of you!) How are you all doing? Me? Oh, I'm okay. I haven't been doing much of anything. At all. Not crocheting very much, not reading (much) (well, you be the judge), and not sitting outside, much, as it's been either too hot, or too cold. I need to have my eyeglasses adjusted because Romeo, dear dog that he is (and he is dear), knocked them once too often and now they sit all catty-wompers on my face. It kind of makes the print on the screen go fuzzy. Oh, and I was murdered in Diane's Mystery of the Blotted out Blogger ; I was the first one to be offed. Just my luck.  In the last month I've read, or listened to: Life of Pi by Yann Martel.   Anything But Typical by Tom Parks The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Barbara Rosenblatt and Cassandra Morris Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Married in Seattle by Lisa Macomber and Curtains by Tom Jokinen I'd tell you a little bit about them, but I don't feel like i...