Frustratedearthmother's Journaling Journey

[frustratedearthmother]

glad you felt good enough to go and able to enjoy it!

Thanks! I have discovered digestive enzymes, probiotics, ginger tea and Famotidine all really help me. I can eat fairly normally - except have to keep portions small. Stomach doesn't want to be stressed with too much work, lol. But hey, automatic portion control isn't a bad thing at all! Last horizon will be spicy stuff - not brave enough to go there yet.

 

[flowerbug]

Thanks! I have discovered digestive enzymes, probiotics, ginger tea and Famotidine all really help me. I can eat fairly normally - except have to keep portions small. Stomach doesn't want to be stressed with too much work, lol. But hey, automatic portion control isn't a bad thing at all! Last horizon will be spicy stuff - not brave enough to go there yet.

easing back into it... i just rescued a bottle of hot sauce from my brother's place. i gave it to him thinking he liked it well enough to keep using it, but when i saw it on his shelf in the fridge the other day with only a little bit used out of it i told him i'd gladly take it back. the price went from $4 to $10 a bottle and i had run out a few months ago. so now i have to gradually get my tolerance back for it because it has more kick than the wimpy stuff i've been using since i ran out.

already my taste buds of much happier to have some back. it makes such a big difference to bland foods and even a little bit mixed in with things like cream cheese takes them to a whole 'nother planet.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

My DH is a spicy food lover. He's so upset that his Habanero plant is looking pretty sad after the freeze - despite heavy mulch and frost cloth. This same plant came back this spring after last winter - so maybe it can do it again.

 

[flowerbug]

My DH is a spicy food lover. He's so upset that his Habanero plant is looking pretty sad after the freeze - despite heavy mulch and frost cloth. This same plant came back this spring after last winter - so maybe it can do it again.

i've not got any experience at all with those pepper plants but the pepper plants i do have some experience with seem to survive some cold ok as long as it doesn't kill the stems. i've had them completely drop all their leaves and then sprout out again. so i hope it will recover.

 

[Mini Horses]

I hope his pepper plant survives!

Do you make stuffed jalapenos with goat cheese? It's a delicacy for cheap with a garden and goats to milk. They freeze well, also. . You have it all!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

i've had them completely drop all their leaves and then sprout out again. so i hope it will recover.

I hope so too. I remember now I didn't use frost cloth on them. I used an opened feed bag which is 3 layers of paper open on both ends. I put the feed sack around the plant and stuffed as much hay as I could get down in the bag around the plant and around the roots. It'ss definitely going to drop all its leaves. May or may not come back.

Do you make stuffed jalapenos with goat cheese?

I haven't yet! I can't wait to start milking again! Going to milk some of my regulars and stand train a bunch of young 'uns. Last year I went to train one that I thought it would be horrible - and she stood there and never moved. She loved being milked! The sweet in your pocket goat was a crazy witch from down under. We had to have a couple of attitude adjustment sessions! I've got 6 FF's to deal with this year. Sounds like fun, huh?

Spent about 6 hours on the boat today trying to catch a stupid fish. Not a single fish entered the boat. DS and DDIL gifted me a fish finder for Christmas - I told 'em to take it back because it didn't find a single fish for us, lol. It did however show us a couple of fish swimming by us and making obscene gestures in our general direction! How rude!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Couple of pics from today

Pushy pelican!

This bird followed DDIL’s line right up to the boat. Thought for a minute he was going to come on board, lol. I threw my line out and he went after my bobber. I’ve never seen a pelican that bold!

 

[flowerbug]

Couple of pics from today
Pushy pelican!

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This bird followed DDIL’s line right up to the boat. Thought for a minute he was going to come on board, lol. I threw my line out and he went after my bobber. I’ve never seen a pelican that bold!

that's not an interaction i'd like to be a part of ! yikes!

as far as fishing goes and how things can change i've walked some streams and fished and had times where every time i threw in a lure i was bringing back a fish and other times when nothing could tempt them to bite. the super nice thing about brook and rainbow trout were that they didn't need scaling (for the few we'd keep to eat).

the last time i fished was, ..., a long time ago. maybe 30 years (if you don't count me trying to net fish from an aquarium) or more. eek! time certainly has gone by quickly.

 

[baymule]

Where are y’all going fishing?

 

[frustratedearthmother]

that's not an interaction i'd like to be a part of ! yikes!

Wouldn't have been pretty if that big a?? bird had come on board, lol. I think DDIL would have gone overboard if that had happened!

Where are y’all going fishing?

We fish in Chocolate Bay - but barely. Most of our fishing is done really close to where Chocolate Bayou empties into the bay.