I’ve covered some of this ground before on the blog, but I told you I’d finish the post I began earlier this week, so here goes. I told you I’d try to explain my approach to diet, which has served me well so far. (There are no guarantees.) By “diet” I mean, The stuff I eat. I don’t mean a prescribed regimen designed by someone else, usually to foster weight loss. If my approach has a name, it would be “the ancestral diet.” Eat as your great grandparents ate. An absolute minimum of processed foods. Yes, it helps if you like to cook, because that’s what you’re going to be doing. Use the best quality ingredients available to you. I say, “Available to you,” because the healthiest ingredients aren’t always cheap or easy to find. It sounds silly, but “Shop around the edge of the grocery store” is useful advice. You might say, Our great grandparents ate a lot of fat. Well, yes. They did. And they ate salt and sugar. However, they ate basic ingredients they contributed, not polyunsaturated fats and sugars and salts that some manufacturer somewhere added for taste to everything they produce. It helps to get into it and approach eating as a hobby. I would say “lifestyle,” but I’m trying to make this sound like fun. I was reluctant to bring the subject up—again—because I don’t want to get preachy, but I’ve had some years of experience with this stuff and am happy with the results. And I don’t sweat the occasional hot dog. And ribs are fine. And as for shrimp lightly breaded and fried in monosaturated fat, bring it on. And fettucine Alfredo? Well, you can’t live forever.
What doesn’t kill you…
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May her memory be a blessing for all….
In bed with a Garfield and Dickens the Support Dog. A second cat Skipper is in main house while other five are in back part of house keeping warm. I hope we all, along with our pets, stay warm and inside through the storm, snow, ice and cold.
Charlotte was a gem. Also, one of the few who shared emails w/ me. Partly, this allowed us to encourage each other in subjects the Village wisely avoids, but I often cc’d her when I broadcast something that she might be interested in. She had wide interests; would love to have had Charlotte as a student, 88 or decades earlier. I don’t have FB. Mark, please send this to whomever. A major loss.
Where I reside now, this is all too common. At least 4 former BSU faculty live here, one in an apt w/ spouse, others moved here w/ spouse who later died. I moved 10 yr after Elaine died; too many degenerative tendon tears. Will likely soon lose one of my girlfriends.
Peace,
I always pictured Miss Charlotte as the elegant understated genteel older lady, listening to soft classical music in a room decorated with only real antiques that she sat on and used, drinking her tea from fragile floral porcelain. Her books surrounded her as she embroidered and needlepointed in a highbacked wingchair, An ancient desk sat nearby to hold her poems and her computer she wrote us from.
I always saw her when I read her. It may not be accurate but it was my Miss Charlotte. I wish I could be as I saw her for she was the woman I wanted to be like. I will never be and I shall miss her terribly.
Good morning. Zero degrees in Tulsa with several inches of snow on the ground. Forecast has windchill below zero today, actual lows tonight below zero. Another large snowstorm expected tomorrow with several more inches accumulating. Hope it’s better wherever you are. Stay warm, stay safe, stay home if possible.
We’re in the middle of the worst drought Utah has had in the 42 years I’ve lived in this state. I’ve only had to push around perhaps an inch of snow on the driveway twice this winter. Our ski resorts would be out of business if they didn’t have the snow machines for their runs. We’d LOVE to have Tulsa’s current weather pattern.
I reckon Tulsa would love for you to have it too! I know I would. If I wanted this kind of weather I’d have moved to Alaska. I’m from the Deep South, like Ghost and Jackie. Give me sunshine, very small amounts of snow, moderate winter temperatures and lots of heat in the spring and summer. I’m semitropical.
I 86ed and rescheduled Jackie’s Tuesday and Wednesday Tulsa appointments. Temperatures alone were good enough a reason, even if road conditions weren’t going to be problematic.
There are too many sheltered areas, and too much drifting took place, for me to make an accurate estimate of the snowfall total here in Eufaula by looking out the window, although I’d guess more than two inches and less than six inches. I’m certainly not interested enough to go outside and look. Current temp is +5, wind chill -13. I experienced much worse in the interior of Alaska, but this is bad enough.
Good morning, all Villagers, and some special notes.
To Mark, thank you for the Facebook link to Charlotte’s daughter Amy. Yes, I am on FB (and often like or love your gorgeous old houses posts.) I couldn’t figure out how to contact Amy from the link, though, so thank you SO much for coming here, Pat.
Here’s what I said about your mom: If you can send a message back to her daughter, please let her know that many of us here in the Village found Charlotte to be both intelligent and kind. She will be missed.
I posted that earlier but hope that both Pat and Amy and others of Charlotte’s family will see it here. It is heartfelt.
Stay in and stay safe, everyone. Even my relatives in Kansas are dealing with this bitter cold and snow right now.
Pat, my comments about Miz Charlotte’s passing, in case you missed them, were made here on Sunday, February 14, 2021 at 12:07 am.
Please accept my condolences for your entire family. She seemed to be fond of me, and I was certainly fond of her.
Thank you so much – and everyone here. I was so impressed that my mother had found this amazing group. It was her own thing and the friendships she made here were real and important to her. She often mentioned things people here said and talked about. Thank you for your condolences. I miss her so much.
Re the 2-15-21 real-time cartoon: With a beezer the size of Arlo’s, a nosebleed might might justify a call to 911.
My work computer is still showing the old message from Jimmy. I have tried to send out messages on my phone but they have not shown up.
I wanted to express my condolences to Patricia and her family for the loss of Charlotte. She was a wonderful lady who was always very kind to me. My prayers are with Charlotte and her entire family
BTW. I might need some help understanding today’s President’s Day strip…
Okay, I’ve successfully run the internet blockade. Now, what the hell is up with Arlo’s bloody nose?
Today is Presidents Day. Evidently, Arlo made a comment about a President with which someone disagreed.
Thank you, Rick! I didn’t get it either.
Glad to! You’re welcome!
Big Garfield is an inside-outside cat so yesterday he wanted out. Ghost told him he wouldn’t like it. He stayed out about 10 minutes, today he only lasted 3 minutes.
The snow is as deep as his legs. Ghost told him if he hadn’t been neutered they’d be frozen. He is down on foot of bed curled up.
Usually, Sadie is out for at least an hour, maybe two every morning. The last two days she’s been back in in under fifteen minutes, having gone just far enough to find a place to do what’s needed and come back. This is one dog who won’t use her own yard for a toilet!
Here, in N. IL., even tall deer are becoming concerned….
I started having osteoarthritis a couple years ago and all the meat I was eating was organic, pastured, etc., but I was eating meat daily. I cut back to once a week and the arthritis pain vanished shortly, never to return. Highly recommend a mostly plant based diet for great health! Jimmy, my husband just got new hearing aids and it was a game changer! Love A & J.
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