The majority of the time, I’m pretty hardcore keto at this point. I check my urine every morning to make sure that I’m still in ketosis. It does wonders for me, in terms of lessening the symptoms of perimenopause. I no longer get hot flashes. Instead of waking up with the bed soaking wet from […]

The last few days have been emotionally rough. I was aware of what was going on with Allyson, the publisher of WMG (brain tumor that was successfully operated on) and then yesterday, Vonda McIntyre passed away. So last night Blaze and I kind of took the night off. Drove up to Issaquah, went to the

One of the herbs that I planted last year that I thought hadn’t come back is the bee balm, Monarda Didyma – from the tag, it’s called, “Raspberry Wine.” Bee balm has amazingly fragrant leaves. I didn’t harvest much last year because I wanted the plant to get established. But it’s used in tea. Colonialists

We had 17 head of elk visit us last night at dinnertime. Either three or four males, the rest females. Some of the females seemed gravid, though we don’t know for certain. The lead of the pack was a 10 point buck who stood there posing, to show everything his magnificence. The spike buck had

I’ve had almost two full weeks of being well. YAY! It’s been so nice to have so many good days in a row. This past winter was really hard. The last time I’ve had such a long streak of good days was probably December.   Looking forward, my best guess is that I’ll have nine

Finally started the next novel yesterday! Yay! Didn’t get as many words written as I would have liked. But that was because I was still being stupid about the novel and ran out of time. This is the second novel of the Wind-Stone-Sea trilogy. In the first novel, the first chapter was from the point

Yesterday, Blaze and I took a road trip down to Morton, to the Raintree nursery. It’s about a 2.5 hour trip both ways. Some of it’s on the interstate, some of it’s through very pretty countryside. This nursery specializes in plants that will grow in the Pacific Northwest. For example, they have filberts that have

I feel as though I’ve taken a few solid steps forward. I’m feeling much better. Falling into a routine again. Got to the gym a few times. Walked a lot more than I have been. Saw the needle on the scale drop a little. This morning I started with Yorkshire Gold tea, then added cacao

Not counting Monday, I would say it’s been a good week. And it was really only Monday morning that was bad. I don’t believe I’ve had this good of a week for quite some time. Possibly since December. So Yay. I haven’t necessarily gotten a lot of words done this week. Some. And I need

It finally feels as though my life is getting back to normal. Yesterday, the last of the snow melted from the yard. It was kind of awesome this morning to look out and not see any snow. (!!!) I also have two more of the miniature irises blooming – another purple one and a blue